Thou shall love thy neighbor as thy self. Mark 12:31. There is none other commandment greater than this. God chose to teach me this lesson, one day. I always thought I was a pretty good Christian. I try very hard to walk the walk, not just talk the talk. However,...
I will never forget the day I met Mother Teresa. More than that, I will never forget what she taught me about loving other people, especially the poor.She wasn't nearly as famous in the late seventies as she is now, but she already had hundreds of thousands of...
Mary was not a leprosy patient. Rather, she worked as a medical resident at Brand's leprosy hospital in India. One day she went on a picnic outing in a station wagon driven by a young student out to demonstrate his bravery. After following a poky school bus for...
Some years ago, while I was in college, several of my friends benefited directly from a professor who taught them by example. Sister Mary Consuela, IHM, used to tell her students at Immaculata, "I throw the pebbles girls, and you have to make the ripples." She...
I work full time, I have a great husband and a 15 year old son. I'm the president of the local soccer association. I teach Sunday school. I have a garden. I teach one night a week. And I love doing it all.I also take care of my mother in our home.When I was young,...
After My mother passed away when I was eleven years old, my fathers new wife and her new family didn't want my sister and I around so they shipped us off to a boarding school. Although this was the best thing for me because I was determined to prove that I could be...
The animal fable Watership Down tells of a colony of wild rabbits uprooted from their homes by a construction project. As they wander, they come across a new breed of rabbits huge and beautiful, with sleek, shiny hair and perfect claws and teeth. How do you live so...