Today’s One-Liner (#155)
When our relationships become strained we can ask ourselves what Jesus would have done—or, when that seems too lofty, what Saint Teresa or Saint Francis wold have done. —Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness, 166
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Helen …
Is one of the best students I’ve had in 28 years. In the classroom, serene, kind and wise. On the field, like a force of nature.
Words Matter: A Summer Writing and Speaking Class
We all can render a great service by listening to opposing opinions without agitation, discourtesy, or violence, and by offering our opinions not as nonnegotiable demands but as calm, courteous statements. —Sri Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad…
Today’s One-Liner (#154)
Wherever the corpse is, that is where the vultures will gather. –Matthew 24: 28, New Jerusalem translation For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. –Matthew 24:28, King James translation
A Simple Alternative to Perfectionism
My dear Mother, you can see that I am a very little soul and that I can offer God only very little things. It often happens that I allow these little sacrifices which give such…
Today’s One-Liner (#153)
I would like to suffer and die in a knightly manner, even to the shedding of the last drop of my blood, to hasten the day of gaining the whole world for the Immaculate Mother…
Don’t Take Everybody to Be Your Friend
We see the same salmon-cream-lilac obtuseness when Lefties try to talk religion. They live and move and have their being in a secular elite culture that has nothing but disdain for Christianity and Christians; at…
Today’s One-Liner (#152)
The institutional Church is the most economical and efficient means by which the Christian reality can be made accessible, at least minimally, to masses of people. –James Hitchcock, The Decline and Fall of Radical Catholicism,…
Today’s One-Liner (#151)
My heroes showed me a source for strength far greater than myself.
Lessons from a Catholic Activist
Learn to Pivot Love the Ones You’re Given Embrace Mercy Learn to Grieve Find Your Heart Celebrate Life Unconditionally Beware of False Compassion Begin Anew –Lila Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change…