Beautiful

“It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” 

-- Blessed André Bessette, soon to be canonized.

Love

We must begin with love, continue with love, and end with love."

--Saint Francis de Sales

If we love God...

If we love God and are faithful to Him, we shall be at peace, and this peace
shall endure.

 --St. Madeleine Sophie Barat
 

The rosary

"The rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men; it is the book of the aged, whose eyes close upon the shadow of this world, and open on the substance of the next. The power of the rosary is beyond description."

-- Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Our Lady, Queen of the Holy Rosary, pray for us.

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.