Vision

"I saw an angel in the marble and I chiseled until I set her free."

--Michelangelo

Summer is gone...

"Come, said the wind to
the leaves one day,
Come o'er the meadows
and we will play.
Put on your dresses
scarlet and gold,
For summer is gone
and the days grow cold."

(A Children's Song of the 1880's)

If our lives were shining...

"There would be no need for sermons, if our lives were shining; there would be no need for words, if we bore witness with our deeds. There would be no pagans, if we were true Christians."



-Saint John Chrysostom

Song for September

Leaves are falling,

Autumn is calling

the Summer away.

Nights are longer,

soon to be stronger

than the days.

Summer is ending,

a new beginning

is on the way.

The lesson is learned:

time cannot return.

Life is change.

Our Lady of Sorrows

THE SEVEN SORROWS OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

I. The prophecy of Simeon

II. The Flight to Egypt

III. Loss of Child Jesus

IV. Jesus carries His Cross

V. The Crucifixion of Jesus

VI. Jesus is taken down from the Cross

VII. The Burial of Jesus

Virgin most sorrowful, pray for us.

Love carved upon the Cross!

"For if there is a testimony of the love of God for us, it is certainly Our Lord Jesus Christ crucified on the Cross for us. What more could Our Lord have done, what more could God have done, than immolate Himself on the Cross for us, to redeem us from our sins? Shall we be insensible to the sacrifice of Our Lord, of the Son of God? One can still find marked on old crucifixes of another age these words: “Can you say that I have not loved you, when you see Love carved upon this Cross?” Love carved upon the Cross! That is the crucifix: love manifested, love alive upon the Cross. Thus one can understand the desire that all holy souls have felt ever to have the crucifix before them, to find in the crucifix the support of their spirituality, the source of their spiritual life."

--from a sermon of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 14 September 1975, at Ecône, Switzerland

Perfect charity

"I understand now that perfect charity consists of enduring the faults of others, of not being at all astonished at their weaknesses, of being edified by the smallest acts of virtue which one sees them practice."

--Saint Therese of Lisieux