Pause for Prayer

A young man and his son boarded the crowded train.  The child was about 7 or 8 years old.  There were no empty seats remaining, so when the train started to move, the little boy almost lost his footing.   
It was beautiful to watch what happened next, without any deep thinking and planning. 
The father had [...]

I am the only person I have ever met who dissected a cockroach and found God! 
I never disbelieved that God exists.  It was just that I took his existence for granted in the same way that I don’t think about breathing.  He was always a part of my life.  However, there was an afternoon when [...]

The bus didn’t come, so we began chatting. Religious always find that there is something in common that can act as a topic of conversation, even between complete strangers. 
Sooner or later, we arrived at the subject of Community meetings.  We all know them have them and experience them with mixed feelings as one of those [...]

There are some things that are very important to me and of less importance to most of the world as it goes through its daily cycle of activities. 

Today, for instance, it was very important to me that I did not make a sixth trip between Vatican Radio and the Vatican Post Office, especially when [...]

Sometimes it is possible to share in a dream come true and it is something unforgettable. 
During Holy Week I went to collect some tickets for the Holy Week ceremonies in St. Peter’s on behalf of some people who were coming to Rome and who would arrive too late to be able to pick up the [...]