It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.
The Rosary is a school of Prayer. The Rosary is a school of Faith.
The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.
Religious life ought to promote growth in the Church by way of attraction. The Church must be attractive. Wake up the world! Be witnesses of a different way of doing things, of acting, of living! It is possible to live differently in this world.
Having faith does not mean having no difficulties, but having the strength to face them, knowing we are not alone.
Take care of brothers and sisters who are weaker. . . the elderly, the sick, the hungry, the homeless and strangers, because we will be judged on this.
You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.
Investing in women is not only the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do.
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
I have walked this south stream when to believe in spring was an act of faith. It was spitting snow and blowing, and within two days of being May. . . But as if to assert the triumph of climate over weather, one ancient willow managed a few gray pussy willows, soft and barely visible against the snow-blurred gray background.
A matador is a guy who didn't have enough people skills to be promoted to serial killer.