Corpus Christi

In hac mensa novi Regis,
Novum Pascha novæ legis,
       Phase vetus terminat.
Vetustatem novitas,
Umbram fugat veritas,
       Noctem lux eliminat,
(On this altar of the King
this new Paschal Offering
brings an end to ancient rite.
Shadows flee that truth may stay,
oldness to the new gives way,
and the night's darkness to the light.)
--from Lauda Sion, the Sequence written by Saint Thomas Aquinas for the Mass of Corpus Christi

Sequence Lauda Sion from the Mass of Corpus Christi

Childhood

The childhood shows the man
As morning shows the day.

--John Milton, Paradise Regained

He who loves

"He who loves does not toil;  the toil is loved."
--Saint Augustine

Memorial Day

"Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? or distress? or famine? or nakedness? or danger? or persecution? or the sword?
(As it is written: For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)
But in all these things we overcome, because of Him that hath loved us.
For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor might,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord"
--.Romans 8:35-39 (Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition)
   

Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary

"O Queen of the world, most worthy Mary, virgin perpetual, intercede on behalf of our peace and safety, thou who didst bring forth Christ the Lord, the Saviour of us all."

--from the Mass of Our Lady Virgin and Queen

His will

"God for His service needeth not proud work of human skill; they please Him best who labour most in peace to do His will."
- William Wordsworth