Faith

This is a sane, wholesome, practical, working faith: That it is a man's business to do the will of God; second, that God himself takes on the care of that man; and third, that therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything.

--George Macdonald

Filled

Only when a box is empty can it be filled. Only when the ego is deflated can God pour in His blessings.

--Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

Peace

Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not in an exemption from, suffering.

--Pere Francois de Fenelon

Contented

A contented man is never poor though he have very, very little. The discontented man is never rich, let him have so very much.

--Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

A friend

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

--Charles Kingsley

Feast of the Annuciation (Lady Day)

With such glad dreams I sought this holy place
And now with wondering eyes and heart I stand
Before this supreme mystery of Love:
Some kneeling girl with passionless pale face,
An angel with a lily in his hand
And over both the white wings of a dove
--from Ave Maria Gratia Plena by Oscar Wilde

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us.

Feast of Saint Gabriel

Saint Gabriel, pray for us.