"Man wins a victory whenever he loves, whenever he surpasses his >ego< and his imperfection. You are the winner, and a human-being, as long as you love". God gave us hearts that are capacious and able to love sincerely. Although love is often uneasy, thorny and unrequited, it is possible since our hearts are big and created for deep feelings.

Source: Apostolstwo Chorych, No.8, August 2001
Edited by: Katarzyna Ledwoń
Translated by: Edyta Strzelecka

phot. Adam Brzoza

„To support somebody means to help him to stand up strong, make him feel that you have put a lot of trust in him and that he can achieve many things.
In doing that you take away half the burden which has been placed upon his shoulders; and by making him lighter you make it that he feels stronger”.
If you find somebody in trouble and you can help - do not say: no! Do not turn away, do not depart. Let your heart be that upon which you can rely.

Source: Fr. Roman Szpakowski
I am looking for friends
Edited: Katarzyna Ledwon
Translated: Gary Farr
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phot. Wanda Kula

Mary gives us an example of such great love for God – putting God at the centre of our life, our personality
– at the centre of our thoughts, feelings, desires, aspirations. For her, God was certainly in the first place and it should be the same in our lives as well.

Source: Ks. Marian Wolicki,
Salvatoris Mater No. 2/03,
Sent by: Piotr Kowalczyk
Translated by: Anna Setkowicz-Ryszka

phot. M. Kubera

Life should be lived in such a way so as not to regret anything. When you bid farewell to somebody, do it as if you were never to meet him or her again, and so as everything would be explicitly clear. Because in real life it is impossible to come back to anything and to start it once again at the same moment when we left it behind us. And how often we do wish to ourselves that "we would like to repeat and experience once again the opportunities that we have missed, so as to change the course of events. We believe that then we would make the best use of the chance given to us anew without making such stupid mistakes. There is such a longing for being given once again the same chance as in the past. " Let us live in such a way that this longing happens to us not too often.

Source: Priest M. Malinski,
Fairy-tales not only for children
Edited by: Katarzyna Ledwon
Translated by: Anna Komorowska

phot. Adam Murek

Never make a man, even a holiest one, an example to follow because Satan may lead you to focus on his imperfections. Instead, make Christ your example.
He is the most perfect and holiest one and if you follow Him you shall never go astray.

St John of the Cross "Words of light and love. Warnings."
Posted by: Piotr Kowalczyk
Translated by: Piotr Blumczynski

phot. Łukasz Kazimierz Bandzarewicz

Man needs a home. No: "especially nowadays "; no: "ever more". Always. Since man is a man and as long as he wants to be a man. Not four walls, not a hotel, not accommodations, not a shelter but a source of peace, rest, strength, love - a home.

Father M. Maliński "All our daily chores "
Sent in by: Piotr Kowalczyk
Translated by: Jaroslaw Rutkowski

phot. Lukasz Kazimierz Bandzarewicz

One has to keep dying and rising from the dead all the time. The evil should keep dying in you all the time and the good should keep rising from the dead all the time – despite being defeated, trampled down or killed so many times. Everything that is mean and trifle should die so as the great good being beautiful could be born. Let us not be afraid of change, with God it will be turn to our good. God will help us rise from the dead, and will help us to come to terms with everything. Simply – he will help us.

Source: priest Mieczyslaw Malinski,
Nie bój się (Do not be afraid).
Edited by: Katarzyna Ledwon
Translated by: Anna Komorowska

phot. Iwona Przekop

Don't you sometimes remain silent with your beloved one? Just silent because suddenly you ran out of topics, because you lost that thought, or you interrupted the other one, because it is somewhat awkward to talk about this or that.
Or you sometimes remain silent because you listen to each other's heart's whisper, because silence does not separate, because it is nice not to talk. Silence lingers because "there is Lord to whom you belong much more. Thus when you are one on one, you don't talk".

Source: ks. Jan Twardowski,
Certainty of Uncertainty. Paradoxes, Aphorisms, Questions, Maxims, etc.
Edited by: Katarzyna Ledwon
Translated by: Anna Setkowicz- Ryszka

phot. Piotr Cyburski

We tend to think that we are left to our own devices. Heaven remains silent to our cries. Even pleading and helpless despair does not evoke storm, lightings, whatever could be a tangible God’s answer. Silence is incomprehensible to us. Maybe we too often try to shout it down and see the word of God whatever the cost. And, after all, God is present when visible signs disappear.

Source: Brother Roger from Taize,
Keep peace of heart in everything.
Thoughts for each day.
Edited by: Katarzyna Ledwon
Translated by: A. Twardowska

phot. Marcin Kryston

"I am as frightened of good as I am of evil, because they demand of me that
I make a choice. would most like to look in front of me with a look of indifference and regard good and evil with the same equanimity". Indeed that would be the easiest thing for me. Because I am JUST a human being and often do not know how to choose But I am also a human being AS FAR as God has given me the capacity of choice in the biological world. Therefore am I to waste this gift?
Am I to regard it with equanimity?

Source: R. Brandstaetter,
Bless all Roads
Edited: K. Ledwon
Translated: Gary Farr
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phot. luksz