Our Lady of Sorrows

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

--Victor Hugo

Real Blessings

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

--Joseph Addison

For Love Of Him

Nothing seems tiresome or painful when you are working for a Master who pays well; who rewards even a cup of cold water given for love of Him. 

-- St. Dominic Savio

Passion Sunday

Passio Christi, conforta me.

[Passion of Christ, comfort me.]

And so begins the journey of Our Blessed Lord along the royal road of the Cross . . .

Sounds of Spring

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, 

And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; 

When the air does laugh with our merry wit, 

And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

--William Blake

Never Cease Loving

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.
--Soren Kierkegaard 

(Happy 25th birthday, Kollin.)

The Strength of Love

There is a comfort in the strength of love: 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.

                                                               --William Wordsworth