"Love others as well as you love yourself." (Matthew 22:39b, MSG)Abbé Adolphe-Julien Fouré's vision was to become a priest and to serve the people of his beloved Brittany. He did this with passion until he had a stroke at the age of 55, which left him completely deaf...
"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." (1 Corinthians 13:13, NIV2)They had faith. At least we hope so, for they were a company of Benedictine monks in a monastery on Pointe St-Mathieu, France, established in the 6th...
"Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever." (Psalms 23:6, NIV2)Why do we face adversities? Some are bigger than others and some are almost insignificant, but these too can still be quite...
I was in a local Goodwill store today looking for a shirt for my son. As I was glancing at the clothing racks I noticed a young mother with her two daughters. The youngest was barely a year old and sat patiently in the shopping cart while her mother browsed through...
"When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. 'Get up,' he said, 'take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.'" (Matthew 2:13, NIV2)The New Zealand...
I was in a local grocery store the other day sorting through some bananas, when suddenly I heard, "Daddy!" And simultaneously felt two tiny arms wrap around my right leg. I looked down to see a lovely little girl no more than three years old looking up at me. She wore...
When Ireland was invaded by the Normans in 1169, they had no idea that they would have to endure British rule for the next eight centuries. English laws were soon enacted to strip them of their land as well as of their unique cultural heritage, including their...