Gary Leon Ridgway (born February 18, 1949) is an American serial killer known as the Green River Killer. He was convicted of 49 separate murders committed between the early 1980s and late 1990s, making him the second-most prolific serial killer in United States history according to confirmed murders. He decided to confess his crimes in […]
There is a children’s story about a farmer who had 4 children. His kids were always fighting with each other. It was impossible to get them to work together, play together, etc. If one said right, the other said left, if one said up, the other said down. He thought they would change little by
One morning an old Cherokee Indian was talking with his grandson. Actually, his grandson was complaining about “life”. “Oh, my grandson!” – said the old Cherokee Indian – “if the energy that people spend on complaining, was spent instead on anything constructive, for sure there would be less problems in this world.” “But, if people
When Albino Luciani was Patriarch of Venice, before becoming Pope John Paul I, some elderly priests, accustomed to remarkable preachers like his predecessors in the patriarchal office, criticized him a little for the simplicity and naivety of the examples he sprinkled in his preaching. But he replied to this by saying, “The word of God
Casiano says in his “Collationes” (Conferences) that there was a man of proven patience in Alexandria, whom the pagans sometimes used to insult and provoke with serious insults. One day when they were bothering him, they asked him: – What miracles has that Christ whom you worship done? – That your aggressions and insults, and
Once there was a king who offered a great prize to the artist who could capture perfect peace in a painting. Many artists tried, and the king carefully observed all the paintings. He selected two of them: “only these two really represent perfect peace” he said. However, he had to give the prize to just
Have you ever heard the expression “Face the music?” The expression means: to be confronted with the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions. Here’s how that phrase came about: Many years ago, a man wanted to play in the Imperial Orchestra, but he could not play a note. However, since he was a person of great
The 43rd Eucharist Congress was held in August 1985 in Nairobi. It was closed by JP II August 18th. One of the talks was given by Mother Teresa of Calcutta. In that talk she told this anecdote: “Until 1973 we had Adoration of the Holy Sacrament once a week after the retreat day. That year
It is not a well-known fact that Antoni Gaudí, the famous Catalan architect and designer, begged for money so that the construction of the Basilica of the Holy Family or “Sagrada Familia” in Barcelona, Spain would not be interrupted. Once, when he went to visit a very wealthy person to ask for money, this person,
The Greek philosopher Diogenes, also known as Diogenes the Cynic, whose house was a barrel on the beach, always had intelligent answers for those who challenged him and most of the time they were very accurate ones. One of these smart answers was related to adulation or flattery. He was eating some wild herbs when
