During the rule of Enver Hoxha who was the dictator who declared Albania to be atheist, Mother Teresa’s mother became ill. The dictator would not let Mother Teresa enter the country to see her dying mother, and eventually her mother died without Mother Teresa being able to see her. Then the dictator died and Mother […]
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
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
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
There is a fable, written by Tolstoy, about a man who, while returning home from work, passed in front of a church where there was a poor man begging. The beggar asked the worker, could you please take me with you? I need a shower and a bed. This man decided to take him home,
Once St. John Bosco had a meeting with a minister named Farini, who wanted to close the school that St. John Bosco had founded. He went to make an appeal for mercy, but it was not an easy appeal since the minister was very angry with Don Bosco and his work. When Don Bosco arrived
