Don Talafous > Quotes

“[B]eing the member of the church means belonging to a messed-up group, an untidy gathering of people like you or me who continually fail to live up to the ideal. But we keep coming just for that reason; we need the help and forgiveness that flow from the offering of Christ.”
― Don Talafous, Homilies For Weekdays: Solemnities, Feasts, and Memorials

“African saying goes: “He who never leaves home thinks his mother is the only cook.”
― Don Talafous, Musings: A Benedictine on Christian Life