Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not h….

Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place..

The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be..

Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? D….

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are.

Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church, and that is how it is supposed to be! Thus we are called as members of the Church to k….

Each individual human being can claim the Spirit of Jesus as the guiding spirit of his or her life. In that Spirit we can speak and act freely and co….

A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me. It ….

Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in….

The Church will always be renewed when our attention shifts from ourselves to those who need our care. The blessing of Jesus always comes to us throu….

When we give generously, with an abundance mentality, what we give away will multiply..

When you have loved deeply, that love can grow even stronger after the death of the person you love. That is the core message of Jesus..

Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared..

Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from the ….

Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer its primary concern, and when its m….

The more I think about the human suffering in our world and my desire to offer a healing response, the more I realize how crucial it is not to allow ….

Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing t….

Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even ….

the real "work" of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. To gently push aside and silence the many voice….

Emit gratitude as though it was done.

The people who most affected me were the ones who got right in there with me, who cried with me, but who also had a certain authority, who dared to s….