The Brazilian Indians who carried Father José de Anchieta’s chests, tired of everything, sighed: “We are heartless!” I was touched by this expression when reading the [...]
My friend Pedro Maria Zabilde, in his book Happiness is not for fools, tells us a delightful episode: he went into a large, clean village barber’s shop and came across a well-bred barber, a [...]
Each person is a word from God that is never repeated. Or a melody that no one else can sing. They say that no two auroras or snowflakes are the same and that after creating a human being, God [...]
There are words that stay in our hearts for life, like those I heard some time ago when visiting an elderly couple. The old woman, sitting on a bench in the dark, poor kitchen, tears in her eyes, [...]
That Sunday the Gospel reading ended with this pearl: “If you, who are evil, give good things to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven not give the Holy Spirit to those who [...]
In ancient meditations on Hell, a terrible sentence was applied to Plato and Aristotle: “Woe to you if you are praised where you are not and tormented where you are”. The famous [...]
It was mid-morning and the children, after recess, were returning to their seats at school. One of them, however, remained standing, staring out of the window, while the teacher repeated, in a [...]
“Love is my weight,” declared St. Augustine, referring to the love of God and of one’s neighbour. “As much weight as I love”, he wanted to say. Selfish love is light [...]
An old beggar in Venice, Francisco García, sits on the ground and begs for alms, as he does every day of the year. And, like every day of the year, a pensioner, Luis Spanio, passes by him and [...]
I will return to the subject of the third millennium rosary, which was invented in Poland and is in the shape of a credit card. Please note that the first models of this original have small [...]
