Tes,
Thank you for your very kind message.

Gregory,
Thank you for that heartfelt message.

I'm guessing that all of us know at least one or two people in the “real world” with whom we don't agree and who (for various reasons) frustrate us and occasionally provoke us to anger. Those people might be neighbors, co-workers, repair-men, professionals, relatives or even fellow church members. It is a part of life.

I have found one perfectly successful way of dealing with people who annoy me and who … [More]

Thank you, Father!

@ Gregory: This "war", that you have against Holy Cannoli, is getting a bit boring. Perhaps you could do, as Holy Cannoli suggested, and simply not read, what he writes, if it gets on your nerves that much? Isn't Christianity about love and understanding, as well as about forgiveness? Please, I'm asking both of you, to put your "weapons" down. How about a truce, leading to peace?

From your previous post it is painfully obvious that you have made a place in your heart to criticize this Holy Priest and it appears that you could not start soon enough in the new year.

Gregory,

Can't you even for one day avoid your fixation with me? I made no criticims of Fr. Nay. When I have offered my personal observations, those observations were offered in the spirit of helpfulness and they were offered in order to give this priest (and others who I've written to) a point of view that … [More]

The presentation was good which included appropriate hand gestures, facial expressions, eye contact and a relaxed demeanor. This too is one of your best presentations.

If we are united and connected to God and to His Son, Jesus Christ the more we will be ready when he comes to visit us and to take us up with Him to heaven.

Yes! Those words reminded me of a passage in a book by Dom Eugene Boyland, O.C.S.O.

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