Inspirational thoughts

Thy Kingdom Come!Dear Friends, in Christ,    Greetings from our house in DC…the dream version is pictured below, but we need your help to get there!  We have been living in this house for 25 years now, without enough money to focus on general upkeep and basic improvement.  So, the leaky roof, the tiny chapel and dining room that no longer hold our ever expanding community of 15 members (9 priests, 2 seminarians, 1 Regnum Christi consecrated man and 3 Regnum Christi missionaries), the 1980’s kitchen that needs an upgrade, and the dorm area made from our 2 car garage that is literally falling apart…all need to be urgently fixed and upgraded.  This is a 4 phase project that will cost $1.2 million and we are currently in the first phase involving our roof and chapel which will total $340,0000.  ANY help that you can offer would be much appreciated.  The link is below…we are very grateful for your support and be assured of my prayers!!
https://rebrand.ly/LC-House
*For those of you who live in the NY Tri-State, please direct all of your donations to their annual campaign, most of which goes to support our seminarians in Cheshire.  

“What is right to be done, cannot be done too soon.” Jane Austen

“Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for non-activity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.” Josef Pieper
What better place than a Catholic chapel to have this leisure time with Jesus…so restorative and helpful for the soul!

You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.Viktor Frankl
Listen to the Holy Spirit and be open to changes and modifications of your dreams and plans…never forgetting that our main “mission” is to be holy and to reflect the love of Christ to every soul we meet along the way…

“All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!” Jane Austen     My mom is pictured below, with my dear grandmother who had a huge impact on my priestly vocation (and on my dad’s early formation)…they were both such pillars of long enduring love and endless hope!

“A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” Jane Austen

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” Ernest Hemingway

“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” -Amelia Earhart

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.” Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

Germinal (Émile Zola)

“If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.”