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 […]

Regina Riley tells a story that many parents can relate to. For years she had prayed that her two sons would return to the faith. Then one Sunday morning in […]

St. Thomas the Apostle,  has three great moments in the gospels.  The first moment is when they are on their way to Bethany, he decides to go along with Jesus […]

When Michelangelo was painting the ceiling of the Sistine chapel in the Vatican,  Pope Julius would come every now and then to see how the work was proceeding.  When Michelangelo […]

Pope Paul VI was a great Pope, he served the church from 1963 – 1978. During my early studies in Rome I had the privilege of serving a few of […]

Harold Kushner, a Rabbi in a local congregation in Boston wrote a book entitled: “When bad things happen to good people”. He explains in the book why he wrote the […]

When we read this story of Jesus giving sight to the blind man, since we are not blind, we might think that this gospel story has no relevance for us. […]