We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God.

--Saint Francis de Sales

Happy 28th birthday, Kollin.

Velvet Shoes

Let us walk in the white snow

          In a soundless space;

With footsteps quiet and slow,

          At a tranquil pace,

          Under veils of white lace.

I shall go shod in silk,

          And you in wool,

White as white cow's milk,

          More beautiful

          Than the breast of a gull.

We shall walk through the still town

          In a windless peace;

We shall step upon white down,

          Upon silver fleece,

          Upon softer than these.

We shall walk in velvet shoes:

          Wherever we go

Silence will fall like dews

          On white silence below.

          We shall walk in the snow. 

--Elinor Wylie

Light

                                                                                    

 "...you don't have to know just what people are doing and feeling to be of assistance to them. Your own life seems to you like a very small lighted room, with great darkness all around it, and you can't see out into the darkness and know what is happening there. But light and warmth from your room can go out into the darkness--if you don't have the windows selfishly curtained, keep a brave fire burning, and light all the happy candles you can.”

 --Elizabeth Goudge in Gentian Hill

Robin Song

I heard the robins singing

in frozen, snowy trees;

And I wondered how,

in bitter cold,

with Spring so far away,

such hope could move those tiny hearts

to sing for joy unseen.

--Kindred Spirit

Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord

" A child is born to us, and a son is given to us: Whose government is upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called the angel of great counsel."

--Isaiah 9, 6

Feast of Saint Edmund Campion

I have no more to say but to recommend your case and mine to Almightie God, the Searcher of Hearts, who send us His grace, and set us at accord before the day of payment, to the end we may at last be friends in Heaven, when all injuries shall be forgotten.

--Saint Edmund Campion

Saint Edmund Campion, pray for us!

Saint Thomas Edmund, pray for us!

Feast of All Saints

 Our Church is the Church of the saints. If one approaches her with distrust, one sees only closed doors, barriers and fences, a sort of spiritual police force. But our Church is the Church of the saints. To become a saint, what bishop would not give up his ring, his mitre and his crozier; what cardinal his purple; what pope his white robe, his chamberlains, his Swiss Guard and all his temporal power? Who would not want to have the strength to embark on this wonderful adventure? It is indeed the only adventure. --George Bernanos