The Quarrelsome Child!
"Jimmy, why are you sitting there all alone?" "Nobody wants to play with me. They always fight with me." "Why don't you go over and see Billy?" "No, he always…
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“It Could Have Been Me!”
A friend once came to Rabbi Harold Kushner, the author of the book, When Bad Things Happen to Good People, and said to him: “Two weeks ago, for the first…
You Are Priceless!!
A well-known speaker started off his seminar holding up a $20.00 bill. In the room of 200 people he asked, "Who would like this $20 bill?" Hands started going up. He said, "I…
“I’ve Been So Blessed!”
We hear it all the time. We hear it in church, in interviews with sports and movie stars, and we hear it a whole lot around the Fourth of July.…
YOU Are the SALT of the Earth!
As Jesus preached his Sermon on the Mount, he turned to his disciples and said in today’s Gospel, "You are the salt of the earth" (Matt. 5:13-16). Salt, in New Testament times, was seen as something…
We Are Students, Not Masters!
The painter Rubens is recognized even today as a genius. His work has been so influential that we sometimes talk about the "Rubinesque" figure. Rubens was also quite a businessman. Unlike many other…
You Have Done What I Did!
A young employee secretly misappropriated several hundred dollars of his business firm's money. When this action was discovered the young man was told to report to the office of the…
Happy Groundhog Day!
"Why do groundhogs wake up each year in early February?" A Penn State researcher says they might emerge from their dens in February, not to see how much more winter…
Why the Pope Is Always Happy!
On November 22, 2022 five representatives of America Magazine and America Media interviewed Pope Francis at his residence at Santa Marta at the Vatican. Fr. Matt Malone, S.J., the retiring editor-in-chief of America Magazine,…
Feed My Sheep
Jesus lived three years with his disciples. They went everywhere together and did everything together. They ate, slept, and breathed the life of Jesus and yet it was difficult for…
