One friend

"There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul."

--Edith Wharton

"They have taken away the Lord!"

"They have taken away
the Lord...
and we know not
where they have laid him."
--Saint John, Chapter 20, verse 2

Please follow this link:  http://stjohnsvaldosta.blogspot.com/2010/02/outrageous-sacrilegious-another-reason.html  and pray for an end to these sacrileges, these desecrations of the Sacred Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ.  Holy Mary, Mother of  God, pray for us.  Saint Mary Magdalene, pray for us.

Who so loves

“Who so loves believes the impossible.”

--Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Winter birds

I heard the birds singing

in frozen 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.

(first published on January 6, 2009)

Down these mean streets

“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.”

--Rebecca Harding Davis

Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes

"I do not promise to make you happy in this world, but in the next."

--Words of Our Lady of Lourdes to Bernadette Soubirous on February 18, 1858. 

O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.

Saint Bernadette, pray for us.

Open door

"Fortune always leaves a door open in adversity so that it can be remedied."

--Miguel de Cervantes in Don Quixote