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 […]
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
The very wealthy English Baron Fitzgerald had only one child, a son, who understandably was the apple of his eye, the center of his affections, an only child, the focus of this little family’s attention. The son grew up, but in his early teens his mother died, leaving him and his father. Fitzgerald grieved over
Accepting sufferings Read More »
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
God helps those who help themselves Read More »
A couple of hunters were hunting in the middle of the jungle when they saw a hut. Out of curiosity, they went over to the hut. “Maybe,” they thought, “it is a hut for hunters to sleep in, in case of necessity.” However, when they got to the hut, they found that an old man
