The Karate Kid is an American martial arts drama film. Part two, that was released in June of 1986, starts right after Daniel LaRusso defeated Johnny Lawrence in a karate fight, which was the end of the first part of the movie. John Kreese, Johnny’s teacher, very angry because his student lost, attacks him in […]
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Once a priest was asking for help to open a house of mercy. He began asking people to support this work of mercy, and they started helping him. However, he had this dialogue with one of his potential benefactors: – Father, do you want me to contribute to your work or commit to it? –
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Once a boy, while visiting his grandfather who lived on a farm, asked him: “grandpa, I try to pray every day as you do, but I get tired of it, and nothing changes anyway. What’s so good about praying?” The old man removed the two or three remaining charcoals from the charcoal basket and asked
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There is a famous conversation in one of the Friends episodes about “selfish or selfless good deeds.” Joey (Matt LeBlanc) says: “This telethon thing on TV and my agent got me a job as co-host… a little good deed for PBS plus some TV exposure.” The conversation continues and at some moment Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow)
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A young girl wanted to be a soccer player. She trained for this every day. One day she had an accident and injured her legs. The ambulance took her to the hospital, and she had surgery. After the surgery, the doctor spoke with her and explained that the surgery was successful and she was going
It was Friday, June 13th 1930, when Henri Guillaumet, an experienced French airplane pilot, had to travel from Santiago de Chile to Mendoza. The weather forecast predicted a huge snowstorm for that day. However, he still decided to leave Chile and to cross Los Andes (The Andes). At one point the snowstorm became very strong
Two missionaries were visiting an orphanage in Russia that housed one hundred girls and boys who had been abandoned by their parents. It was Christmas time, so, they decided to tell them the story of Christmas and then asked them to make a manger with Jesus in it. They provided all the necessary materials for
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In Spain along St. James’s way (otherwise known as ‘El Camino’) there is a Monastery in Leyre. Once, long ago, there was an abbot named Virila. Abbot Virila was very interested in understanding the eternity of God. With this question in mind, every day he went to walk along a trail until he arrived at
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Father Auriemma narrates that a poor little shepherdess loved Mary so much that she found all her delight in going to a little chapel of Our Lady on a mountain, and there in solitude, while her sheep were feeding, conversing with her Beloved Mother and paying her homage to Her. When she saw that the
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Philip III of Spain put the Duque of Osuna in charge of the land of Naples. The Duque of Osuna went to visit the prison on the festival day of that prison. There was a tradition to release one of the prisoners on that day. Before releasing a prisoner, he first asked each of them
