Is it really easier to work in a grumpy complaining manner?
How trivial can something be yet still get on your nerves?
Why shouldn’t the Church be perfect?
Family? Easiest or Hardest to Cope with during Stress?
“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in its petty pace.” – Shakespeare
If I’m the center of reality, how come everything doesn’t go more smoothly?
Do you prefer to be a fretful dwarf or a serene sage?
Does everyone you love know how much you appreciate their virtues?
“A spoonful of honey is better than a barrel full of vinegar.” – St. Francis de Sales
Do others rate you as friendly, unfriendly or just blah?
Are tiny sacrifices so awful we shouldn’t make them?
Is “manana” our way of keeping promises?
You mean “I did it my way” isn’t always loving?
Do Big Deeds of Love make up for not doing Little Ones?
If we can’t even control ourselves why do we think we can control others?
“You idiot, why did you get involved in that problem in the first place?”
What is harder, biting your tongue or hurting the feelings of others ?
Why do you Love Certain Religious Art more than other Famous Religious Art?
“The eyes are the windows of the soul.”
Do others praise God because you are so pleasant to look at and/or your house is so lovely?
Do you let evil spirits get you down?
Do you judge yourself even more harshly than you judge others?
What would your score-card be on forgiving those less close to you?
How enraged do you let yourself get when you can’t force authorities to agree with you?
Do you wish you were born into a different family?
Take your foot out of your mouth!
How annoying or foolish are you?
Are you more loving in your talk with strangers or with family and friends?
If someone taped your conversations would they be mostly negative or positive?
Can you go through a whole day thanking God?
If human love isn’t perfect shouldn’t you still be grateful for it?
When did you last thank God for toilet paper?
A Hundred Day Spiritual Marathon – it could hurt????
Perfectionism that Doesn’t Work
Are you more concerned with your own image than with good realities around you?
The Church as the Mystical United Nations!
Is the Triduum the only time you pray for those of other faiths?
As St. John Vianney said, the good Lord is indeed good to His people and gives us so many blessings.
Two’s company, three’s a crowd – but two leaders are already a crowd
one of the best Catholic movies ever
How superficial is superficial?
“I’m angry because everyone else is obnoxious, so I don’t have a problem!”
I bet you don’t know who said the famous line “the perfect is the enemy of the good.”
At Holy Apostles College and Seminary where I teach, the Saint John Cantius Society seminarians develop a choir.
When you contemplate the people you know well do you think of their best features or do you exaggerate their worst features?
