Feast of the Holy Name of Mary

 "O Lady! thou in whom my hopes have rest!"
--Dante Alighieri in Paradiso

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us now and at the hour of our death. Amen. 

The river flows on

“How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on”

--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The dawn

"However long the night, the dawn will break."

--African proverb

Realization

“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”

--Rainer Maria Rilke

The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

"Happy art thou, O holy Virgin Mary, and of all high praise most worthy;  for out of thee hath risen the sun of justice, Christ our God." 
--from the Mass of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

September sun

"Happily we bask in this warm September sun,
Which illuminates all creatures..."
-- Henry David Thoreau 

Late summer

"A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year."
  --William Longgood