Something Tremendous – Apr. 7, 2022
“What is Mary Frecon [one of the workers] doing? She is loving her brothers, fervently, steadily, faithfully, unfailingly. And there is nothing saccharine, soft, or sentimental about it either… There is no glory in it, no visible results in it. There is nothing in it, in other words, for her, either in money, power or […]
Loaves and Fishes – Apr. 6, 2022
“Young people say, “What can one person do? What is the sense of our small effort?” They cannot see that we can only lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment. But we can beg for an increase […]
There is nothing that we can do but love – Apr. 5, 2022
“What we would like to do is change the world — make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe and shelter themselves as God intended them to do… We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever-widening circle will reach around the world. We can give away an […]
What else do we want, except to be loved – Apr. 4, 2022
“Whenever I groan within myself and think how hard it is to keep writing about love in these times of tension and strife which may at any moment become for us all a time of terror, I think to myself, “What else is the world interested in?” What else do we all want, each one […]