Without measure

We should love God because He is God, and the measure of our love should be to
love Him without measure.

--St. Bernard

The morns are meeker

The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry's cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town.

The maple wears a gayer scarf,
The field a scarlet gown.
Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I'll put a trinket on.
 
--Emily Dickinson
 

Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi

“Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and can be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.”
--Saint Francis of Assisi

Saint Francis, pray for us.

Only love

Saint Therese, pray for us.

October

"The sweet calm sunshine of October, now
    Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold
The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough
    drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold."

 --William Cullen Bryant

Love

"The soul is made of love and must ever strive
to return to love. Therefore, it can never find
rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose
itself in love. By its very nature it must seek
God, who is love."
--Saint Mechthild of Magdenburg.

Light

When Jesus comes near, the shadows depart.

--Inscription found on a Scottish castle, author unknown,