Life is beautiful. Yes, indeed . . . in many different ways. But it is far from perfect. There are events, things and people that contribute to making it happy and beautiful, but they can also at times make it sad or ugly, with or without our own choosing, or fault. This journey called life can be so engaging and our desire to get the most out of it so intense that we would like it to last forever. On the path of life, we could tarry a lot to enjoy the flowers and the fruit f

The Greek mythology about the Trojan Horse, the ingenuous strategy of the Greeks to take back Helen of Troy, "the face that launched a thousand ships," can be brought to mind in reflecting on the readings at Mass this First Sunday of Lent. The mythical story says that after ten years of unsuccessful attempts to breach the impregnable walls of the city of Troy, the Greeks thought of the plan to build a huge horse which had inside it several of its brave warriors. The Trojans