There was once a protestant preacher who had the reputation of being a good preacher as well as a person of great prayer: “when he prays” people used to say “he moves your heart.” A reporter wanted to write an article about this preacher, so he went to one of his services. The preacher, as […]
An old boatman painted the word “prayer” on one paddle of his boat and “work” on the other. He was asked the reason for this. To answer, he slipped the paddle with “prayer” into the water and rowed. The boat, of course, made a very tight circle. Returning to the dock, the boatman then said,
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
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
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
