Father Michael Blog

“Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.” Viktor Frankl

“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
     “Hurt people..hurt people”…assume that behind every difficult person, there is a lot of hidden hurt!

“As the children grow up you feel that you are an example, a support for them; that even after you die your children will always keep your thoughts and feelings, because they have received them from you, they will take on your semblance and likeness. So you see this is a great duty.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thank you, mom and dad, for being that incredible example for me, and even though you have moved into the next life, I am still benefiting from it!

“Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.” St. Mother Teresa

“Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.” Leo Tolstoy

Loving your enemies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMUJkk7N-rE
“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.” Leo TolstoyWithout prayer, it is simply too hard to love one’s enemies…we need God’s help!

God bless,Fr. Michael Sliney, LC

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” Leo Tolstoy  Who better than our Blessed Mother can teach us this lesson of learning to love, especially when we are most hurting….

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” Leo Tolstoy

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” Leo Tolstoy