Dun Giljan's Blog

Walt Disney, who was told he had no creative ideas ! If you feel you have nothing to offer or not bright enough to do anything worthwhile, j...

Fr Padilla, Fr Sales and Fr Goessens You may remember that Pope Francis in 2023 visited Mongolia. As he did throughout most of his pontifica...

As we pray today for Robert Prevost, presently known as Pope Leo, we celebrate today his namesake's feast.  Born at Montepulciano, Italy...

Tom Burnett Among the stories that happened on September 11, 2001, none showed more heroic virtues than that of 4 guys who were on one of th...

'The Seven Sorrows of Mary' by Adriaen Isenbrant The liturgical feast of Our Lady of Sorrows is celebrated a day after the feast of ...

Today the church commemorates the day when St Helena found the cross on which Jesus was crucified. Being the mother of Emperor Constantine, ...

Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II met several times. One day when the Pope was visiting India, Mother Teresa was in a car on her way to Ne...

Sister Doris Engelhard is the last sister in Europe still brewing beer in her Abbacy of Mallersdorf in Bavaria, Germany. She is now 77 and h...

My heart is still hurting by painful memories of September 11, 2001, but prayer, writing and researching history have all been my consolatio...

I will take you today to experience what life was like exactly 25 years ago in 2001. In my parish of St Stanislaus Kostka in Pleasant Valley...

John McEnroe practicing at the outer courts With the US Tennis Open Grand Slam tournament going on in New York this week, I’d like to go   b...

Today we celebrate the feast of the birthday of the Blessed Mother. She was conceived in St Anne’s womb on December 8th, the feast of the Im...

I’d like to honor today a young car-racing driver from Italy who just turned 20 on August 25, and who presently is leading the Formula 1 sta...

Meteora is a rock formation in north-western Greece , hosting one of the most prominent complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries, viewe...

Mother Teresa (1910-1997) The little nun who changed the way we look at poor and sick people is honored today in her liturgical feast. She ...

Pope Francis once recalled a day when he was talking to a young man, and asked him what things make him feel sad. Without thinking, he answe...

Saint Gregory the Great (540-604) St. Gregory, born in Rome about the year 540, was the son of Gordianus, a wealthy senator, and later Gr...

Psychologists have been saying all along that whoever helps others, is finding that this is just as beneficial to himself. A person feels mu...

Someone asked a professor at a University: ‘Who do you think does the most good in this world, the optimist or the pessimist? The answer was...

In one of his Wednesday audiences, Pope Leo  XIV referred to St. Teresa of Jesus Jornet Ibars , and described her as the patron saint of the...

The Redeemer and the Redeemed interact at the start of the procession Today happens to be the local feast of my patron, Saint Julian, which...

Dolly Parton, the philanthropist and country singer shared how she has a tendency to be up and around by 3 a.m . and claims that during the...