"I want him to help me strive to be like Mama Mary."


Gentlemen, here's a rare glimpse into a very mysterious and secretive world.






"I really want a girl who's really going to make me like work for her...and really make sure that I'm ready as a man, as a man of God to be with her."


Ladies, please take note.







"Dare to Love"


The theme for the 22nd World Youth Day in 2007 was, "Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another" (John 13:34).

Since this is the Feast of St. Valentine, Bishop & Martyr, I thought that it would be relevant and quite fitting to post the following words from Pope Benedict XVI. In his message to the youth of the world, the Holy Father wrote,

"Everybody feels the longing to love and to be loved. Yet, how difficult it is to love, and how many mistakes and failures have to be reckoned with in love! There are those who even come to doubt that love is possible. But if emotional delusions or lack of affection can cause us to think that love is utopian, an impossible dream, should we then become resigned? No! Love is possible, and the purpose of my message is to help reawaken in each one of you - you who are the future and hope of humanity-, trust in a love that is true, faithful and strong; a love that generates peace and joy; a love that binds people together and allows them to feel free in respect for one another...

The first stage concerns the source of true love. There is only one source, and that is God. Saint John makes this clear when he declares that “God is love” (1 Jn 4: 8,16). He was not simply saying that God loves us, but that the very being of God is love. Here we find ourselves before the most dazzling revelation of the source of love, the mystery of the Trinity: in God, one and triune, there is an everlasting exchange of love between the persons of the Father and the Son, and this love is not an energy or a sentiment, but it is a person; it is the Holy Spirit...

My dear young friends, I want to invite you to “dare to love”. Do not desire anything less for your life than a love that is strong and beautiful and that is capable of making the whole of your existence a joyful undertaking of giving yourselves as a gift to God and your brothers and sisters, in imitation of the One who vanquished hatred and death forever through love (cf Rev 5:13). Love is the only force capable of changing the heart of the human person and of all humanity...."