Category: Reflections
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Gaudete! Joyful Saint Quotes
This Gaudete Sunday, the third Sunday of Advent, take some time to reflect on these quotes from Saints who have lived exemplary lives of Christian joy. Which one is your favorite? Do you have others to add? Teresa of Avila, Philip Neri, Bonaventure, Francis of Assisi, Dominic Savio, Paul of the Cross, Théophane Vénard, Clare…
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November Saints!
A blog post by Fr. John Roche, SDB Director: My grandmother died when I was nine years old. I was very close to her. She was, in many ways, like a second mother for me and for my siblings. She lived in our house and I slept in the double bed with her. She was…
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Blessed Michael Rua: Anecdote & Homily
An Anecdote Fr. J.B. Francesia speaks of Fr. Rua as of a man or deep prayer. Always first at his place in church for the community meditation, he would kneel motionless throughout, with his face resting on the palms of his hands, holding a white handkerchief. On February 23, 1887 early in the morning, an…
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Fr. Giuseppe’s ISS Experience
Fr. Giuseppe Pellizzari, a Salesian who was the first provincial of Moscow in Russia, andwho came for the Spring 2013 semester to the ISS shares his reflections on his experience: In retrospect, I must thank you all, Salesian confrere and guests, for my happy four-month stay at Don Bosco Hall. All the ingredients for…