Father Michael Blog

“Give me faith, Lord, and let me help others find it.”
– Leo Tolstoy

December 24, 1998…my priestly journey officially began.  Thank you, Jesus for this incredible gift of the priesthood and of your deep and loving friendship!

“Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.” George Eliot

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus

“Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.” CS Lewis

“If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.” St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”  Leo Tolstoy