Once a priest was talking with a young man who was discerning his vocation. He had actually discovered his vocation to the consecrated life, but he was not sure if he was going to follow it or follow his own plan for his life (family, career, and all the things that a religious renounces in […]
While he was a priest, St. Vincent de Paul worked in a high position for the government for many years and one of his tasks was to employ people for the government. One day a mother came and asked for a job for her son. After examining the candidate’s abilities, he concluded that the candidate
Once the bishop of Mantua, Giuseppe (Joseph) Sarto, who would later become Pope and Saint Pius X, was publicly slandered by a merchant. More than once he was advised to denounce the slanderer judicially, but to this advice the bishop replied: “that poor man needs prayer more than punishment.” So he did not do anything
A firefly lying in a garden, shuddered with envy at the effect of the lights from a nearby Christmas tree and, in a melancholic mood, complained of the weakness of her own splendor; “how can it be possible that something could shine so brightly”, she wondered. Its friend looked carefully at the tree and said
Teresa is an Argentinian parachutist who went to Arizona, USA for an international event of parachuting. She went with 14 other parachutists, with the idea to train first and then after 4 days of training to start jumping on Friday. She brought her parachute, but it was not an appropriate one to jump in Arizona.
Once I read: “if Jesus had sent his twelve disciples for psychological testing this might well be the reply he would have received: Thank you for submitting the résumés of the twelve men you have picked for managerial positions in your new organization. All of them have taken our battery of tests. We have run
In a women’s field hockey test match between Argentina and Germany, the Europeans had scored a goal, but the referee did not call it. The Argentine coach asked one of his players if it was a goal and she said yes. Then the coach, known as “Cachito Vigil”, called the assistant referee and told her
In the year 1914, in the middle of the First World War, when the troops of the German Empire and the British troops were facing each other, something took place which was later called the “Christmas Truce”: brief, unofficial ceasefire that arose spontaneously from the very troops that were in combat with each other. On
It is said that the poet George Herbert (1593-1633) had a group of friends with whom he met once a week to talk, and also to play music. They had a small, amateur orchestra, and they spent some time playing music. One day on his way to one of his friends’ houses where they were
I think you probably know the great novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” written by Harper Lee. The story takes place during the time of the Great Depression (1930) in Maycomb, an old town in Alabama. The narrator is Scout Finch, a six-year-old girl who lives with her older brother Jem and her father Atticus, a
