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Thanksgiving Day and Gratitude
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Father James Farfaglia
Cicero, the famous Roman senator and orator once wrote, “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” The virtue of gratitude is the ability to express our thankful appreciation in word or deed, to the person whose words or actions have benefited us in some way. The truly humble…
New Beginnings
By
Father James Farfaglia
Thomas Edison was a prolific inventor. He invented over 1,000 things, but he is best known for inventing the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, the microphone, the storage battery and talking movies. It was December 1914, and he had already been working for ten years on the storage battery. This adventure had greatly strained his…
Important Lessons from a Poor Mexican Guitar Player
By
Father James Farfaglia
“Ladies and gentlemen, I am going to play a few songs for you. I hope that you like my music.” These were the words the poor Mexican guitar player spoke as he suddenly jumped aboard an old bus as it travelled up the Mexican Pacific Coast. The poor Mexican guitar player stood in the middle…
Old Ideas Rising from the Ground
By
Father James Farfaglia
I thoroughly enjoyed Steven Spielberg’s version of “War of the Worlds.” The special effects that Spielberg uses to show the aliens coming out of the ground are really cool. Heresies (yes, I did use that word) are like the aliens that come out of the ground. Harlan Ogilvy in Spielberg’s movie says it well when…
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