I Heard a Bird SIng

"I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December
A magical thing
And sweet to remember.

'We are nearer to Spring
Than we were in September,'
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December."--Oliver Herford, I Heard a Bird Sing

Feast of Saint Nicholas

“Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.”

 

--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Saint Nicholas, pray for us.

Prayer

"The Creator of the Universe listens to the prayer of a very little soul to save others who are ransomed, as she is, by the price of all His Blood."
--Saint Therese of Lisieux

The pain of parting

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”

 

 --Charles Dickens

The simple truth

“There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.”

 

--Charles Dickens

Beauty

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

--Kahlil Gibran

Feast of Saint Edmund Campion

The expense is reckoned, the enterprise is begun; it is of God,

it cannot be withstood. So the faith was planted; 

so it must be restored.

--Saint Edmund Campion, martyred at Tyburn on December 1, 1581 at age 41.

Saint Edmund Campion, pray for us.