“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” ~Oscar Wilde
Father Michael Blog
Sunday homily: J.O.Y!
Choosing a “comfortable” Catholicism?
We need more silence!
“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.” – St. Mother Teresa
Inner peace
“Consider your souls like the image of a surface of a lake, above which the sun is shining. If the surface of the lake is peaceful and tranquil, the sun will be reflected in this lake; and the more peaceful the lake, the more perfectly will it be reflected. If, on the contrary, the surface of the lake is agitated, undulating, then the image of the sun cannot be reflected in it. The more our soul is peaceful and tranquil, the more God is reflected in it, the more His image expresses itself in us, the more His grace acts through us.” Fr. Jacques Philippe
Sunday homily: Self-giving
Prudence
“It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.” – The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Help needed for our house renovation!
It has been a pleasure to serve all of you through my daily videos, reflections and poems. Your supportive comments and emails are very encouraging, and I am glad this service has been useful to you and your families.
Once again, I would like to make my annual request for help. I know that many of you have already been extremely generous in showing your financial support for our house renovation here in DC, so for those who have already given, thank you!! (I also ask that my friends from the NY Tri-state focus on supporting the padres in Rye, NY) Please consider being an ANGEL FOR A DAY, by using the link below to make a tax deductible donation*:
Any support that you can give would be deeply appreciated, and I am, as always, very grateful for your generosity. Be assured of my prayers for you and your families!
Seraphim: $5000 (or more!)
Cherubim: $2500
Archangel: $1000
Celestial Choir: $500
Guardian Angel: $250
St. Michael: $100
St. Gabriel: $10 or more
*(We are a 501 c-3 organization so all donations are fully tax deductible).
Or feel free to mail your donation to the following address:
“LC Pastoral Services”
10211 Norton Road
Potomac, Md. 20854
Keep looking up!
“I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
– Charlotte Bronte
Silence
“And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.”
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse