Occupation: Priest Birth: January 24, 1932 Death: September 21, 1996
Do not despair, thinking that you cannot change yourself after so many years. Simply enter into the presence of Jesus as you are and ask him to give ….
This is what life is about. It is being sent on a trip by a loving God, who is waiting at home for our return and is eager to watch the slides we too….
A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or understood independen….
Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to ch….
Where is peace to be found? The answer is surprising but clear. In weakness. Why there? Because in our weakness, our familiar ways of controlling and….
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts ….
Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing..
God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful..
Lord Jesus, master of both the light and the darkness, send your Holy Spirit upon our preparations for Christmas. We whose hearts are heavy seek the ….
Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real….
The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To writ….
When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live..
If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend..