ในพระคัมภีร์เล่าว่า พระเยซูเจ้าถือศีลอดอาหารเป็นเวลา 40 วัน 40 คืน เทวดาได้มาดูแลพระเยซูเจ้า ผมชอบนิทานโบราณศตวรรษที่ 3 ที่ว่าเทวดาไปเยี่ยมแม่ของพระเยซู และถามว่าลูกชอบกินอะไร และแม่พระก็ได้ทำอาหารนั้นฝากเทวดาไปให้พระเยซู ซึ่งเป็นอาหารมื้อแรกหลังจากที่ได้ถือศีลอด

We have one hundred-and-thirty kindergarten teachers in our Mercy family who, on average, have taught at our schools over ten years. In this photo of six Mercy teachers, each teacher has taught in our Mercy Kindergartens for more than twenty years, except Kru Niphaphon, who is still young and just starting her career. (Please give her time.)

Her parents picked recyclable trash for a living, mostly plastic bottles and newspapers, near their shack in the slum by Bangkok’s port.

Wannit, age 5, tagged along, helping her parents as best she could.

By Father Joe Maier, C.Ss.R. Published in Bangkok Post, Spectrum, Feb. 19, 2012

Mother Gung says her own mother used to tell her, "Daughter, you were born just after sunset in the Year of the Tiger _ that time of day when Mother Tiger is hungry and going out to look for food for her babies. Sometimes you find food, sometimes you don't. There will be tough times."

Our kids are all in school. Our patients are gossiping and laughing in the garden behind our hospice. Members of our slum women’s credit union come and go, depositing ten or twenty baht in their savings accounts and sharing news of their family with our social workers.

When you visit a shack where poor children live, you'll find that they have next to nothing they can call their own: no toys, no books, not even a mattress to sleep on. Worst of all for the poorest of these children, they have no chance to go to school.