Every moment

"I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to love them."

--from the private notes of Saint Bernadette

The Lark Ascending

"The music soars within the little lark,
And the lark soars."
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Listen to Parts 1 and 2 of Ralph Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL_6FBP48d4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R8KAZcLhOs

Love

"Love is the only thing that matters."
--Saint Therese of Lisieux

Corpus Christi

In hac mensa novi Regis,
Novum Pascha novæ legis,
       Phase vetus terminat.
Vetustatem novitas,
Umbram fugat veritas,
       Noctem lux eliminat,
(On this altar of the King
this new Paschal Offering
brings an end to ancient rite.
Shadows flee that truth may stay,
oldness to the new gives way,
and the night's darkness to the light.)
--from Lauda Sion, the Sequence written by Saint Thomas Aquinas for the Mass of Corpus Christi

Sequence Lauda Sion from the Mass of Corpus Christi

Childhood

The childhood shows the man
As morning shows the day.

--John Milton, Paradise Regained

He who loves

"He who loves does not toil;  the toil is loved."
--Saint Augustine