The Cross

 

"Jesus will never let the Cross crush you;  on the contrary, it will lift you up toward Heaven.  It is no longer you who will carry it;  it is the Cross which will carry you."

--Father Jean C. J. d'Elbee in I Believe in Love

Spring

"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems."

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Ad te Joseph

Great Saint Joseph, foster-father of the Child Jesus and chaste spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, guard and protect us that we may one day be in Heaven praising God forever with you.

Without love

“Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.”

--Saint Therese of Lisieux

To be preferred

"Here on earth love proves itself by free choice.  When a man loves, he chooses that which he prefers.  Jesus wants to be chosen, to be preferred."

--Father Jean C. J. d'Elbee in I Believe in Love 

A treasure somewhere buried

"The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried."

--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

*This painting is by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and is entitled "The First Anniversary of the Death of Beatrice."

Joy

"Joy is the echo of God's life in the soul."

--Rev. Patrick McBride