WORD ALIVE A professor in a college English class said to his students, "If you will just take a new word and use it 100 times, it will be yours forever." Whereupon, a young woman in the class looked dreamily out of the window and sighed, "Piolo, Piolo, Piolo...." * * * Jesus' parables have been...
WORD ALIVE A distraught man approaches a priest and asks: “Please bless me, Father, because my son is a drug addict, my daughter an unwed mother, and my wife a gambler. The priest already tired of listening, says: Brother, isn’t there anything positive in your life? The man replies: Me,...
WORD ALIVE FR. BEL SAN LUIS, SVD A story is told about a Franciscan, a Jesuit, and an SVD who paid homage to the Christ Child in Bethlehem. The Franciscan was interested in the manger to serve as reminder of the poverty and simplicity their order professed. * * * The Jesuit was more interested to...