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Fr. Michael Sliney, LC

Inspirational thoughts

Loving your family

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“There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives – the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family.  Find them.  Love them.” St. Mother Teresa

    Question for the parents, do your kids look forward to seeing you after a long day at school and sports practice?  Personally, I still remember anxiously waiting for my dad to walk in the front door from work…he always had a warm smile and he quietly communicated his sincere love for me.

God bless,

Fr. Michael Sliney, LC

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The little things

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“To be faithful in little things is a great thing.”  St. Teresa of Calcutta

    Every single morning, without fail, Fr. Steven Reilly, LC cooks a pot of “Quaker” oatmeal and boils a bunch of eggs for breakfast.   The nine padres who live with Fr. Steven are extremely grateful for this daily dose of dogged dedication!

God bless,

Fr. Michael Sliney, LC

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Humility

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“We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.” – St. Mother Teresa

    Humiliations are the short-cut to the all important virtue of humility.  Try to see the spiritual value in these tough moments, and thank Jesus for this huge opportunity to grow!

God bless,

Fr. Michael Sliney, LC

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Pain is gain

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“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”

― C.S. Lewis

     My experience has been that those who have suffered more, and embraced this as God’s plan with a deep faith, tend to have a little more “spark”, a little more character and a little more joy in their hearts.  “Those who sow in tears will reap with hearts rejoicing!” (Psalm 126:5)

God bless,

Fr. Michael Sliney, LC

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Changing yourself

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     “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy

     The devil supplies us with plenty or reasons and sophisms why we do not need to change or make adjustments in the way we act, but for some reason, we do not cut the same slack to those around us.  We all need to take the plank out of our own eye first…

God bless,

Fr. Michael Sliney, LC

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Evangelization

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     “The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast and profound changes of present-day society make all the more urgent. Evangelizing is in fact the grace and vocation proper to the Church, her deepest identity. She exists in order to evangelize.” Blessed Paul VI

    Do you talk about Jesus with your friends?  Do they know how much you love Him?  Does it show in your daily life?

God bless,

Fr. Michael Sliney, LC

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Keeping focus

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“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

     Don’t let the misery and imperfections of those around you slow you down…don’t worry, they will need to answer to God.  Focus on your own holiness, and this example of joyful living will move their hearts more than any lecture or negative judgement.

God bless,

Fr. Michael Sliney, LC

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Sincerity

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     “One must talk openly with others, in a way which reveals one’s inner thoughts through one’s face, which reveals the troubles of one’s heart directly in one’s words. One word said with conviction, with complete sincerity and without any hesitation, while staring into a person’s eyes, means more than dozens of pages from a book.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

God bless,

Fr. Michael Sliney, LC

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