Dun Giljan's Blog

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn, If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight. If a child lives with ridicu...

John was a Portuguese soldier who worked in the health department in Spain. Once in 1537 he heard a sermon by St John of Avila. He was so mo...

I have a lot to eat but I am hungry, because so many are dying of hunger.  I drink fresh water, but my throat is parched with thirst as many...

Fr Robert Prevost (Leo XIV) blessing his parents On this Father’s Day I share with you a few reflections on the fathers of two Popes. Pope L...

I n the Indian state of Orissa, a man was able to single-handedly build a road of 10 kilometers, around 7 miles long. He did all this by han...

A very beloved saint, Anthony of Padova was actually born on August 15, 1195 near Lisbon in Portugal. When news of the Franciscan martyrs i...

Have you ever wondered what an amazing journey pens, pencils and other writing instruments have, depending on who uses them? I remember once...

Click on the image to enlarge - fascinating ! Noah teaches us that we are all in the same boat. He teaches us to plan ahead. When he built t...

Some visitors to my blog told me they liked these short snippets that I occasionally share with you. And so here are a few more to ponder on...

I’ve said it many times that the Blessed Mother has more feasts than Jesus himself, and yet another celebration was introduced recently by P...

Holy Spirit, fill our leisure time with newness. Fill the long watches of days off and weekends  with a new way of life for which there is...

A certain tailor lived in a poor neighborhood. He was the only tailor in town and served everyone kindly   but also with a good price.   One...

Faculty and seminarians at Holy Cross Seminary, New Zealand As the number of vocations are constantly deceasing, the news however is very en...

Baptizing one of my converts in 2014                       It is coincidental, but it’s worth noting   that there has been a surge in the nu...

Louis Bleriot on his 11th plane that crossed the English channel How many people plan something presumptuous and then give up. Yet others pe...

We honor today the Uganda martyrs, 13 Catholic converts burned alive in 1886. In total, 22 Catholic martyrs were canonized in 1964 by Pope S...

Yesterday one of my favorite annual sports events came to an end. The three-week long cycling race Giro D’Italia ended on the streets of Rom...

Today we celebrate the feast of the Ascension, a celebration that has been transferred in many Dioceses to the 7th Sunday of Easter. This is...

Browsing through my Oregon journal, I share with you two funny stories related to fund-raising and church collections........ Volunteerism i...

It was a custom in my US parishes that a statue of Mary is crowned during the month of May. We usually had a little girl crowning the statue...

Banner at Pope Paul VI's canonization, Oct 14, 2018. The church honors today one of the recently-canonized saints, Pope Paul VI. Born on...

This picture conveys a very meaningful message to all those who have faltered and failed in whatever they planned to do in their life. We’ve...

A n Italian Benedictine monk who became the “Apostle of the English,” Saint Augustine of Canterbury is honored by the Catholic Church on his...

If one had to choose one saint who showed the humorous side of holiness that would be St. Philip Neri. Born in 1515 in Florence, he showed t...

Wolfgang Goethe was a famous German philosopher who gave us quite an impressive and useful recipe of how we can gain true happiness in our l...

As a follow up on yesterday’s post, a friend of mine from Oregon USA , shared this information about an organization called Hu manality whi...