Contented

A contented man is never poor though he have very, very little. The discontented man is never rich, let him have so very much.

--Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

A friend

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

--Charles Kingsley

Feast of the Annuciation (Lady Day)

With such glad dreams I sought this holy place
And now with wondering eyes and heart I stand
Before this supreme mystery of Love:
Some kneeling girl with passionless pale face,
An angel with a lily in his hand
And over both the white wings of a dove
--from Ave Maria Gratia Plena by Oscar Wilde

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us.

Feast of Saint Gabriel

Saint Gabriel, pray for us.

Courage

Courage is not the absence of fear but, rather, the judgment that something is more important than fear.

--Ambrose Redmoon 

Virtue

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.

--Blaise Pascal

Feast of Saint Benedict

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.
--Saint Benedict

Saint Benedict, pray for us.