O wind

O, wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
--Percy Bysshe Shelley

Light

 

 The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.  The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.  

--Felix Adler

Faith and works

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may
hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with
them to heaven.

--Francis Beaumont

Feast of Saint Agatha

"Shed no tear,

O, shed no tear.

The flower will bloom another year."

--John Keats

Saint Agatha, pray for us.

Weather

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

--Archbishop Fulton Sheen

How to love

If you really want to love Jesus, learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you how to love.
--Saint Gemma

Feast of the Purification of Our Lady (Candlemas)

 

"I have been amazed that some are utterly in doubt as to whether or not the holy Virgin is able to be called the Mother of God. For if our Lord Jesus Christ is God, how should the holy Virgin who bore him not be the Mother of God?"

--Saint Cyril of Alexandria in Letter to the Monks of Egypt 1, A.D. 427.