Monday in Holy Week

 

 
"There is no cure for want of love but love."

--Bishop Fulton Sheen in Way To Happiness

Good temper

"Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds light on everything."

--Washington Irving

Love enough

"God gave us love enough to spend in getting back to Him so that we could find infinity there; He did not give us love enough to hoard."

--Bishop Fulton J. Sheen in Way To Happiness

The loving abandonment of Mary

"Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to your word."  This is the fiat of Mary, pronounced in the name of all humanity.  Without her we would not have Jesus;  we would not have our Brother, our Friend, our Savior.  The loving abandonment of Mary is at the origin of our Redemption.

--Father Jean C.J. d'Elbee in I Believe in Love

Secrets of the heart

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking
confess the secrets of the heart."

--Saint Jerome

Still

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

-Haldir in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring

True worth

"The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood."

--Mary Mcleod Bethune

Sorrowful Mother, pray for us.