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
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
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
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
Once St. Ignatius of Loyola saw a religious who was sweeping the house and asked him: “Who are you doing this for?” The religious answered: “I am doing this for the love of God.” To which St. Ignatius said: “It does not matter if we serve the world in a lazy and neglectful way, but
In 1914, after Germany invaded Belgium, a magazine had a famous cartoon in which it showed the German Emperor saying to King Albert of Belgium, “So now you have lost everything”; and Albert’s answer came: “But not my soul!” Behind this cartoon there is an important teaching that is also in the Gospel: We, human
Blessed Clement Hofbauer, a Moravian religious and priest who was born in 1751, was pastor at St. Benno’s Church in Warsaw, Poland. Once he saw a homeless boy on the street and he brought him to the rectory, cleaned him up, fed him and catechized him. Little by little he started bringing more boys to
Once I read an interesting article that compared our will to the Mint; as the Mint makes coins, so our will makes coins. Our will makes the coins of good deeds, and we make those coins to buy heaven and achieve holiness. To buy heaven, our coins should be genuine and not counterfeit or fake.
