Capturing perfect peace
May 10, 2024
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Once there was a king who offered a great prize to the artist who could capture perfect peace in a painting. Many artists tried, and
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Face the music
May 2, 2024
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Have you ever heard the expression “Face the music?” The expression means: to be confronted with the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions. Here’s how that
Bad company
March 14, 2024
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Once the abbot of a monastery had this dream: there were many monks in a monastery, each one doing his own task. All of them
The logic of the Gospel
March 7, 2024
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Paul Claudel tells this story in his novel “The tidings brought to Mary”: Jacques Hury is working for his fiancée’s father Vercors when he sees
Sophie, the cleaning woman
February 15, 2024
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Sophie, a cleaning woman, was Catholic. One of the gentlemen in the large building where she worked said to her, “Hey, Sophie, I understand that
Sincerity
November 30, 2023
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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
Be ready!
November 23, 2023
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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:
Meekness
November 9, 2023
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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
Precipitation
September 28, 2023
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It is said that in the Principality of Monaco, judges condemned an offender to the guillotine, even though they didn’t have a guillotine nor an
The fable of the lapdog
September 7, 2023
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Once an elephant came into the town and was walking down the main street. The elephant was so impressive; no one had seen an elephant