Seven swords

It is true, O Lord, that in the work of human redemption Thou didst suffer alone, and that there was not a man who sufficiently pitied Thee; but there was a woman with Thee, and she was Thine own Mother; she suffered in her heart all that Thou didst endure in Thy body."

--Richard of Saint Lawrence


"Over the iron forest
He saw Our Lady stand;
Her eyes were sad withouten art,
And seven swords were in her heart--
But one was in her hand."

--from G. K. Chesterton's "Ballad of the White Horse"

Virgin most sorrowful, pray for us.

You are a Soul

“You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”

--C.S.Lewis

Ash Wednesday

"Grant us, O Lord, to begin with holy fasts the campaign of our Christian warfare:  that, as we do battle with the spirits of evil, we may be protected by the help of self-denial, through Christ our Lord. Amen."

--Prayer recited after the distribution of ashes, from the Mass of Ash Wednesday.

To find her

"A woman’s heart should be so lost in God that a man needs to seek Him in order to find her."

--Author unknown

One friend

"There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul."

--Edith Wharton

"They have taken away the Lord!"

"They have taken away
the Lord...
and we know not
where they have laid him."
--Saint John, Chapter 20, verse 2

Please follow this link:  http://stjohnsvaldosta.blogspot.com/2010/02/outrageous-sacrilegious-another-reason.html  and pray for an end to these sacrileges, these desecrations of the Sacred Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ.  Holy Mary, Mother of  God, pray for us.  Saint Mary Magdalene, pray for us.

Who so loves

“Who so loves believes the impossible.”

--Elizabeth Barrett Browning