Father Michael Blog

“I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
– Charlotte Bronte

“And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.”

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

 

“Teach us to give and not count the cost.” ― St. Ignatius de Loyola

“Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters

“In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.”  St. John of the Cross

     Jesus showed us this example in Gethsemane…

“If you love me as you say you do,’ she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.”  Anna Karenina- (Leo Tolstoy). “Love” is going where your spouse needs you to go and consciously meeting his or her needs, not how “you” would prefer to love your spouse…

TKC!     I look forward to welcoming my next guests, Ben and Darcy Nauman, to my Radio Maria show on Monday, June 21st!  Ben and Darcy reside in Washington, DC with their lovely daughters, Lily and Vivienne. They will discuss their recent conversion to Catholicism, their efforts to give back to the local community, and offer some reflections on raising daughters and finding a deeper meaning to life.

God bless,Fr. Michael Sliney, LC

“If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.” C.S. Lewis