Walk in my Presence, and you will be perfect.













Each day during Lent I will place a holy card that includes the Holy Cross, and each day I will link to  ENLARGING THE HEART ~ Mark Armitage's gracious offering of devotional readings from the early fathers and the saints.






SMALL ALBUM:
Doves and the Cross

St. Joseph: Solemnity, March 19

ST. JOSEPH He has suffered with Jesus. He reigns in heaven with Jesus. Bouasse Lebel 1117

Laetare Sunday 2012

Garden of Prayer
The waters flow forth with joy from the Fountain of Salvation.
O, good Cross, so much love of my Savior do I receive when I hold you in my arms.
Pannier 961

St. Patrick: Feast Day, March 17

Erin Go Bragh
{Ireland Until the End of Time}
St. Patrick, pray for us.
Bouasse Lebel 644

LET US PRAY IN THE MORNING,
LET US PRAY IN THE EVENING;

GOD LOVES US TO GO TO HIM.

Dopter

Meditating in solitude on the cross comforts us.

Wentzel

The Cross defends me against temptation.

Langlume

LOVE OF HUMILITY 

Oh, Lord... that I might know myself 

and that I might know You. 

~ St. Augustine 

 Letaille


SMALL ALBUM:
Doves and the Cross

Tree supporting a fragile plant and sheltering reeds,
image of the grace support of the weak souls.
Bouasse Lebel, Paris












Good readings for Lent: ENLARGING THE HEART ~ Mark Armitage's gracious offering of devotional readings from the early fathers and the saints both in the eastern and western Church.

Novena to St. Joseph begins today.

























St. Joseph. Protector of Virgins

O Life Giving Cross, I place at your feet, my joys and my sorrows. Mon. Vve. Bouasse Lebel













Small album~ 
Doves and the Cross

Jesus, your hand is always open

to give, to bless, to pardon.

Bouasse Level 5040

O, Cross, I salute you,
my only hope.


Small album~ 
Doves and the Cross

Each day during Lent I will place a holy card that includes the Holy Cross, and each day I will link to  ENLARGING THE HEART ~ Mark Armitage's gracious offering of devotional readings from the early fathers and the saints.

Since I must suffer,
my God, I suffer resigned that,
if need be, I will die
full of love.

ALMS
To please God
we must be charitable.
Bouasse Lebel

The Cross teaches us how to pray, how to love God as we should. Wentzel

The Cross Sanctifies the Soul.
Handpainted










Small album~ 
Doves and the Cross

They saw Moses and Elijah speaking with Jesus. (Matt 17:1-9)
Felix, Paris

POWER

Come, Divine Power, come and communicate to my soul some of that Courageous Will that overcomes all the enemies of salvation.

very early Mme. Bouasse Lebel

THROUGH JESUS I RAISE MY HEART IN PRAYER.

Through My Heart, flooded by Divine Light, the incense of your prayers is allowed to evaporate.

Mon. Bouasse Lebel

OH JESUS INSPIRE ME! The modest virtues of St. Joseph Bouasse Lebel 3449

March Devotion, St. Joseph

March:
10. Novena to St. Joseph begins today March 10
17. St. Patrick: Memorial, March 17
19. St. Joseph: Solemnity, March 19
25. Annunciation: Solemnity, March 25

Small Albums in March

• 14 Stations of the Cross
• Amo Te Jesu
• Doves and the Cross
• Heart Speaks to heart
• Holy Face of Jesus
• Images of the Holy Cross
• Prayer Light
• Prayer to Christ Crucified
• St. Joseph (March Devotion)

JESUS MARY JOSEPH

Teach us how
to share the suffering.

Turgis

Visit of the Good Master

Bouasse Lebel 

Christ, the Divine Gardner, is depicted here within the heart of the believer gently and carefully working to uproot the weeds that mar its beauty.

Sheltered by the Cross, the lily grows in peace towards heaven.
Bouasse Lebel, Paris Pl. 1472

Give Me, my child, your heart. Proverbs 23:26

Benziger

My Good Angel, teach me to pray to Jesus my Saviour.

St. Paul
God forbid that I should glory in anything save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Galatians 6:14

Ash Wednesday 2012

The Call of the Sheep
Dopter

WAKE UP
It is time to think of Jesus.
Bouasse Lebel, Pl.1411


And a wonderful way to "wake up and think of Jesus" during the Lenten season is to visit  ENLARGING THE HEART ~ Mark Armitage's gracious offering of devotional readings from the early fathers and the saints.

Holy guardian angels,
watch over us as our
Lenten journey begins...

Shrove Tuesday, Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus

Link:
Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus 

Small Album: The Holy Face 

The Feast Day of the Holy Face of Jesus is observed on Shrove Tuesday, a movable feast celebrated this year Liturgical Year on Tuesday, February 21, 2012




The name "Shrove Tuesday" is derived from the custom of confessing sins and being "shriven" (absolved) just before Lent.

JESUS * MARY * JOSEPH
Hear us. Help us. Save us.
Morel

God of childhood, Jesus, Good Shepherd, 

give the innocence that creates happiness.

SWEETNESS AND HUMILITY

Learn from Me for I am meek and humble of heart. Matt. XI:29

Baumard

Let us go to our Lord in perfect simplicity of faith, 

with fervour and with love.

Holy Family by Leber

old color lithograph

Jesus, Mary, Joseph, Help us ever to lead a pure and blameless life. 
Bouasse Lebel, Paris pl. 1119

Sts. Cyril and Methodius: Feast Day, February 14

By you O Mother and Virgin, heaven trembles with elation and the angels and the archangels rejoice. ~St Cyril
Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Co- Patrons (with St Benedict, St Edith Stein, and St Bridget of Sweden) of Europe
"...the funeral Mass was held in all three liturgical languages: Latin, Greek, and Slavonic.  Rivers of faithful who had received Christ through the achievements of these two missionaries flowed for days as they paid their respects after the funeral.Their lives are a testimony of love, pure and simple.  They loved their God and the souls they served more than themselves, and so they gave their lives in honor of that love.  Such is the perfect valentine, if you ask me.  So I say again what I already said, and I mean it: have a very happy Valentine’s Day, today and every day. "
by Father John Bartunek, LC | Source: Catholic.net

May our actions be beautiful roses to adorn the lawn of Jesus.

Bouasse Lebel

NOVENA to the HOLY FACE

begins today

The Holy Face of Jesus

(after the Holy Shroud of Turin)

This image is a reproduction of the drawing by Sr. Genevieve of the Holy Face 

(Celine Martin) sister of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face

Our Lady of Lourdes, Feast Day

Let us find Jesus in the Holy House in Nazareth

THE BEST PLACE Close to Jesus with Mary and Joseph.
Bouasse Lebel

MODEL OF SOULS

Mary & Joseph, grant that my love for Jesus may equal your own.

Turgis

EARTHLY TRINITY Three hearts beat as one.
Bouasse Lebel 794

Jesus invites us to His table. It is His Body that nourishes us.
Bouasse Lebel1398

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, unite us with the sweet chain of love. Turgis