Monday, April 19, 2010

Holy Eucharist

 
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on."

--Josiah Gilbert Holland

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Good Shepherd Sunday

"No man can follow Christ and go astray."

--William H.P. Faunce

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Nobly done

 "Nothing of what is nobly done is ever lost."

--Charles Dickens

Friday, April 16, 2010

Poppies

 "Through the dancing poppies stole 
A breeze most softly lulling to my soul."

--from John Keats' Poppies

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Faithful

"It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds."

--Saint Augustine

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Real love

"In real love we can hardly distinguish giving from getting: each is indistinguishably both. The lover's giving is his getting: that his gift should be lovingly accepted is itself a gift to him, and the gift he values most."

--Reverend Gerald Vann, O.P. in The Heart of Man

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Perfection

  
 "Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

--Antoine de Saint-Exupery