Sometimes we hear about somebody or read about somebody who has made a great difference in the world in their own lifetime.  It may have been a writer,  a philosopher, […]

Sometimes it happens that we meet somone along the way just once and maybe for a very short time, but they make a very deep impression on us.  Something we […]

Tom Brown’s School Days was a famous British novel written by Thomas Hughes. Tom Brown was a popular boy who attended a boarding school in England. He lived with about […]

Over 400 years ago a report was sent back by Saint Francis Xavier in India to Saint Ignatius of Loyola in Rome. After reporting on the widespread poverty of the […]

Saint Augustine, one of the greatest intellectual saints spent many years trying to understand the mystery of God. One day he was walking along the beach he saw a little […]

Many years ago I heard a story on the radio, which I have never forgotton. It was about an auctioneer,  and he was selling the contents of a house.  He […]

When Beethoven finished writing his 23rd. piano sonata,  he wrote the word appassionata on the cover.  Ever since then it has that name.  When we listen to it, we can […]

The story is told of several farm laborers on the Yorkshire dales, tending sheep flocks as Sunset approached. The barking of a faraway dog suddenly broke the quiet of the […]

Four-year-old Marion West shouted and jumped for joy when her mother came home from work on her lunch break. But Marion would become hysterical when her mother left again after […]

About the middle of the nineteenth century St. John Bosco (founder of the Salesians) began to work for poor and endangered youth in the Italian city of Turin. The young […]