Apparation of Our Lady at Lourdes

"I promise you happiness not in this world, but in the other."

--words of Our Lady at Lourdes to Saint Bernadette in 1858

Filled

Any woodthrush shows it - he sings, not to fill the world, but because he is filled.
--Jane Hirshfield in The Stone of Heaven

Courage

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

--Frances Rodman 

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.