Seldom

"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken."

--Jane Austen

Feast of Saint Monica

"For my mother, Your faithful servant, wept for me before You more than mothers
weep when lamenting their dead children. By the ‘faith and spiritual discernment’
(Gal 5:5) which she had from You, she perceived the death which held me, and
You heard her, Lord. You heard her and did not despise her tears which poured
forth to wet the ground under her eyes in ever place where she prayed."
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--Saint Augustine in Confessions.

Saint Monica, pray for us that our prayers for our children may be answered as were yours so that God may be glorified in their salvation.

Two wings

 "The two wings of our souls, immune to any gust of wind, are true love and faith."

--Stanislas Xavier-Touchet

Quest

 

"The quest of invulnerability, the search for a comfortable life beyond interference, the refusal to be put out by anything or anybody:  these will not bring comfort but misery, because their end is isolation and death of  soul.  You will be undisturbed if this is your object, oh, yes;  and unless you are so dead as to have no feeling left to you, you will cry out for someone..."

--Father Gerald Vann in The High Green Hill

Birdsong

"The soul cannot live without love.  All depends upon providing it with a worthy object."

Saint Francis de Sales

Flowers

"Flowers are words which even a babe may understand."

--Bishop Coxe

Infinity

 "We have our being in God as birds have theirs in the air, and fishes in the sea; and if only we make the effort to realize it, if only we try to accept this God-given destiny, then our horizons stretch to infinity."

--Reverend Gerald Vann, O.P., in Awake In Heaven