Gaudete Sunday

The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.
--James Freeman Clarke

The road of life

“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.”

--Helen Keller

Moments

"There are moments in life when the heart is so full of emotion

That, if by chance, it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble

Drops some careless word, it overflows; and its secret,

Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together."

--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Secret sorrows

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

 

--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Feast of the Immaculate Conception

"Que soy era Immaculada Concepciou."
--words of Our Lady to Saint Bernadette at Lourdes.
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

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.