Never Give Up

Happy Feast of the Guardian Angels.⭐️ Thanks to my guardian angel (always working “overtime”) and the angels of my family members for all yo...

" C’est la confiance et rien que la confiance qui doit nous conduire à l’Amour " (Saint Thérèse of Lisieux). "It is trust tha...

Recently a colleague (who is an agnostic) shared his thoughts about the crises facing our world today under an apocalyptic horizon which he ...

September 27th was the feast of Saint Vincent de Paul. He began “going to the margins” in the year 1617. His followers in the “Vincentian Fa...

I wish you a Very, Very Happy 40th Birthday, Avril!   (Of course you’ll never see this, but I’m still writing in a personal way…and meaning...

I don’t get out and about all that much these days. I walk almost every day along the roads and rolling hills of our neighborhood, on the bo...

We have humid gray clouds and leaves wet and green, Of cooler, colorful skies and foliage of light, I dream…

Genuine Christian faith entails the conviction that  created things are good . As humans, we are meant to be "attracted" by the go...

“As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the customs post. He said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And he got up and follo...

Here are a few words about the remarkable way the Gospel came to be preached in Korea, and the marvelous impact of Christ and the Church on ...

Happy "Janaro Family Feast Day"! Buona Festa di San Gennaro!  Today is the Feast Day of the Great Ancestor of the Janaro Clan, the...

Rainy days. How long has it been since we’ve had two rainy days in a row? Or even one rainy day? Dare I say it?—“ Hooray for rain !”

The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Jesus said to Nicodemus, “No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from ...

Here is the Gospel passage proclaimed at the Eucharistic Liturgy of September 12. I place it here because it is a word from Jesus that I nee...

Here was a “Facebook Memory” from September 7, 2011. I have posts on this blog that are older than that. I can read about these kinds of mem...

" Everyone in the crowd sought to touch him because power came forth from him and healed them all " (Luke 6:19). The Gospel often ...

Saint "Mother Teresa." September 5th is her feast day, although it isn't (yet) on the universal Roman calendar. She was only c...

When I was a kid, we had a "short-wave radio" (ask your parents, or grandparents, what a short-wave radio is), and one of the exci...

“Welcome to September 2024.”  Digital art personally crafted by JJ. #JJStudios