Author Archives: Father Michael Sliney, LC

“It is very important for us to realize that love, to be true, has to hurt. I must be willing to give whatever it takes not to harm other people and, in fact, to do good to them. This requires … Continue reading →

“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.” Anne Frank Tonight, … Continue reading →

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” (Anne Frank) So many people complain that God is not doing enough to stop evil in the world, to bring more light into the darkness…but he created … Continue reading →

“This contemplation of creation allows us to discover in each thing a teaching which God wishes to hand on to us, since “for the believer, to contemplate creation is to hear a message, to listen to a paradoxical and silent … Continue reading →

“He who wishes for anything but Christ, does not know what he wishes; he who asks for anything but Christ, does not know what he is asking; he who works, and not for Christ, does not know what he is … Continue reading →

“The will is the seat of all the pain people suffer, for if the will is fully in accord with my will there is no pain in suffering.” — St. Catherine of Siena Most of the time, we know the … Continue reading →

“Fathers and mothers of families should bring up their children virtuously, looking at them rather as God’s children than their own; and to count life and health, and all they possess as loans which they hold of God.” St. Philip … Continue reading →

“Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.” — CS Lewis During one of our mission trips in El Salvador, a woman from a very poor village asked if we would be … Continue reading →

“Cultivate a special devotion to God’s Word, whether studied privately or in public; always listen to it with attention and reverence, strive to profit by it, and do not let it fall to the ground, but receive it within your … Continue reading →

“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant … Continue reading →