The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

"All glory be to Thee, Jesus, born of the Virgin, with the Father and the Holy Spirit for ever and ever. Amen.
The Holy Mother of God is lifted up on high, above the choirs of angels into the kingdom of Heaven."
--from First Vespers for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Angels

“Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.”
--Saiint Francis de Sales

Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The meaning of this painting: The Blessed Virgin Mary has fallen asleep for the last time on earth: she has not died, for death cannot touch the body which was the first dwelling place of the Word made flesh. Our Lord Himself comes to carry her to Heaven in His arms, even as His Mother first held Him in her arms in Bethlehem: look just behind the head of the sleeping Virgin in this painting and you will see Mary pictured as an infant in the arms of Our Lord.  The Apostles, gathered together by God's grace, witness this amazing sight and rejoice at the Blessed Virgin's wondrous transport from this world. Blessed be God in His angels and in His saints!

Two solitudes

“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other”

--Rainer Maria Rilke

Nothing but Heaven

Nothing but Heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.  

--Plautus

A letter

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.  

--Emily Dickinson

Feast of Saint Lawrence

"The principle part of faith is patience."
--George MacDonald