HAPPY 2005 !!! - (Favorite Quotes from Last Year)

Definition of an OPTIMIST: -- a vocations director with a beeper.

"We're here and we're not going to give up. Tell all the people who love The Church we're going to be their priests someday." -- (From a Brooklyn seminarian, James Kuroly)

"We're inclined to identify the media as the enemy. In this case, I think they've been the instruments of grace." -- (Fr. Theophane Cooney, OP, Immaculate Conception, Jamaica, Queens, NYC)

"I felt a dark cloud finally being lifted and new light arriving" -- (Fr. Daniel Murphy, pastor, Holy Child of Jesus, Richmond Hill, Queens, NYC, on the Brooklyn priests' convocation) -- MY SENTIMENTS ALSO!

"I don't come to church to follow what the priest does. I come to follow Jesus." -- (a layperson)

"You can be Catholic, but you still have to seek God out every day." -- (another layperson)

"....You pray into the core of your being, where Jesus is. If you get pain, you pray into the pain, because that's where He is then." -- (the late Msgr. Puglisi on his recent battle with cancer)

"My life as a sister is not a series of 'nots', it is saying 'yes' to something." -- (from a religious sister)

"This is no longer an emergency food pantry. It is a suppemental food source on which people depend" -- (from another nun)

AND THE WINNER IS...
"Holding resentments is letting someone you don't like live rent-free in your head." -- (Br. Loughlan, OFM)