Category: Stories of Faith

n 1683 the Ottomans again tried to take Vienna. They once again amassed a large army and besieged the city in the summer, the Turks demanded that the city surrender to the Ottomans, the defenders refused. The siege was brutal, but the Viennese heroically defended the city fending of Turkish attacks, during the siege the…

Being a CATHOLIC PRIEST is ranked among the four most difficult “professions” in the world. This is because a CATHOLIC PRIEST must be at the same time: • preacher • example • advisor • former• planner • minister • visionary • director • mentor • friend • nanny • reconciler• marriage counselor • youth counselor…

Keep a Rosary, even a small one, under your pillow. Since I took this habit, problems are solved more easily, and it is a good method for those who have insomnia, they will see that they wake up with the rosary in their hands and have had a good rest! Meaningful actions gain more force…

“My children, we cannot comprehend the power that a pure soul has over the good God. It is not he who does the will of God, it is God who does his will. Look at Moses, that very pure soul. When God would punish the Jewish people, He said to him: Do not pray for…

If you labor, day and night, spreading the works of God, this is good. Good fruit will come from your commitment to serve the Will of God and to spread His Divine Mercy. But we should also realize that God is able to use us to spread His Mercy until the end of the world.…

If hell were not eternal, it would not be so frightful a chastisement. Thomas a Kempis says, that “everything which passes with time is trifling and short.” Any pain which has an end is not very appalling. The man who labors under an imposthume or a cancer, must submit to the knife or the cautery:…