Feast of Saint Martha

"Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love--difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs--everything, because through them, she learns humility, realizes her weakness."
--Abbe Combes from The Spirituality of Saint Therese

Saint Martha, pray for us.

Letter-writing

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives. 

~Anatole Broyard

Tears

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

-- Alfred Austin

Key Ingredients of Love and Marriage That Last

 How beautiful this is! Love is so simple, and so easy, for those who know the secrets. (To find the secrets, click on the third word of this post.)

For every beauty

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.”

--Ivan Panin

Love

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year - it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.
-- Author Unknown

Feast of Saint Anne

Good Saint Anne, pray for us.