Fr. Michael Sliney, LC
“I am not an angel,′ I asserted; ‘and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me – for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.” Charlotte Bronte, (“Jane Eyre”)
“The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises towards ever wider horizons.” ~ St. John Paul II
“The distance is nothing when one has motive.” Jane Austen
“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.” William Shakespeare
“Courage is being scared to death…and saddling up anyway.” John Wayne
“A person’s a person, no matter how matter small.” Dr. Seuss
“Repent and believe in the Gospel”. This invitation, which we find at the beginning of Jesus’ preaching, introduces us into the Lenten season, a time to be dedicated in a special way to conversion and renewal, to prayer, to fasting and to works of charity. In recalling the experience of the chosen people, we too set out as it were to retrace the journey that Israel made across the desert to the Promised Land. We too will reach our goal; after these weeks of penance, we will experience the joy of Easter. Our eyes, purified by prayer and penance, will be able to behold with greater clarity the face of the living God, to whom man makes his own pilgrimage on the paths of earthly life.” St. John Paul II
“Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.” C.S. Lewis
“Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy.” St. Isidore of Seville