Patience

"Patience is the art of hoping.”

--Marquis de Vauvenargues

Feast of Saint Dominic

"You are my companion and must walk with me. If we hold together, no earthly power can withstand us."
--words of Saint Dominic addressed to Saint Francis of Assisi upon their first meeting.
Saint Dominic and Saint Francis, pray for us.

Wings

“Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.”

--Saint Francis de Sales

All is well

"Everything is a grace because everything is God's gift.  Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events--to the heart that loves, all is well."

--Abbe Combes from The Spirituality of St. Therese

Reward

“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.”

--Thomas Merton

Feast of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

He gave up thoughts of suicide
to be of help to souls
after a cannonball shattering his knee
taught him something of the world,
and legends read during recovery
pierced those places where sinew joins bone:
finding God in agony first,

but then in stars by night
and later at day in a blade of grass,
an orange leaf.
He began his mornings with
"What shall we do for God today?,"
letting the Spirit blow through his soul
as wind through a field of poppies.
- by Fr. James Janda
Archdiocese of Salt Lake City

Dear Saint Ignatius of Loyola, pray for us.

(Happy 10th Heavenly anniversary, dear Thomas Edmund.)

Miracle

“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.”

--Rainer Maria Rilke