Once I saw someone walking her dog. It was a very hot day, one of those summer days that are quite unbearable. At a certain moment the dog saw water and started pulling on the leash to go to drink the water. The woman untied the leash and released the dog that ran to drink […]
Alma Elizabeth Deutscher (born on February 19, 2005) is a British composer, pianist and violinist. A child prodigy, Deutscher composed her first piano sonata at the age of five. At seven, she completed the short opera, The Sweeper of Dreams. At age nine, she wrote a violin concerto. At the age of ten, she wrote
There is a novel written by Nikos Kazantzaki (a Greek writer, widely considered a great writer of modern Greek literature) in which the main character would ask God: what is your true name? He always heard a voice saying: “my name is ‘it-is-not-enough’, since that is what I say to all those who dare to
Once upon a time, an angel appeared to a hermit who was physically disabled, and pointing to a rock on the top of the mountain, the angel said to him: “God wants you to push that rock every day”. The hermit, a little bit perplexed about God’s request, obeyed the words of the angel. He
Some time ago, when cars did not yet exist, in a certain place it was raining a lot, and the dirt roads were impossible to travel. So it was, that on different roads, three different charioteers got stuck in the mud. The first of them was trying to pull his wagon out of the mud
One day Susan went to visit her friend Michael. Michael, who moved from his parent’s house and hometown when he was 18 years old, lived alone. He was depressed but she did know that when she decided to visit him. He had not told her that he was depressed, she just missed him, and she
A great small action Two weeks ago, on June 18, 2023, the world was shocked when they heard that a submarine, named “Titan”, that was carrying five people had disappeared. After 5 days of intense searching, they found part of the small submarine and concluded that it must have imploded due to the water pressure
A true Christian (and by ‘true Christian’ I mean the opposite of a worldly Christian, true Christians are in the world […] they do not belong to the world (Jn. 17:11.16); If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, […] the world
Once, an archaeologist went on a pilgrimage to the Himalayas. In ancient times the temples, situated at great heights, were very difficult to reach and many people simply did not return because they died on their way. People must have walked along small paths on the edge of very deep cliffs, with eternal snows. Just
Fulton Sheen tells a story of a rich woman who, although she took many humanitarian initiatives, she was not motived by charity alone, but rather there was vainglory behind her works of charity. Only occasionally she gave money just out of charity. When she died, she went to heaven and St. Peter showed her her
