The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Tota pulchra es Maria et macula non est in te.
Virgo purissima, ora pro nobis.

A great thing is love...

"A great thing is love--a great good in every way: which alone lightens all that is burdensome, and bears equally all that is unequal. For it carries a burden without being burdened, and makes all else that is bitter sweet and savory."


--from The Following of Christ

Hidden paths...

"Still round the corner there may wait

A new road or a secret gate,

And though I've often passed them by,

A day will come at last when I

Shall take the hidden paths that run

West of the Moon, East of the Sun."

--J. R. R. Tolkien

Walking...

"If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish."

--Charles Dickens

When you arise...

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is
to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

- Marcus Aurelius

Keep to your principles

"Change your opinions; keep to your principles; change your leaves; keep intact your roots."

--Victor Hugo

The moon and the star

There I am and there you are,
up in the sky--the moon and the star.
You call to me: I answer you.
Oh, tell me--can you hear it, too?
How strange it is, in darkest night,
to see it all in clearest light!
I hear your voice upon the air;
I turn to you, but you're not there.
By now I shouldn't be surprised:
you've disappeared before my eyes.
But you are never far away;
for sure as night will follow day,
up in the sky--that's where we are.
You are the moon and I am the star.