O, My Savior Jesus Christ, only object of my desires.

Come and participate in the body and blood

 of the victim immolated for us; come and remember 

that this death is our life.
Jacques Benigne Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux in France

Basilica of the Precious Blood

Basilica of the Precious Blood in Bruges

JESUS ​NOURISHES OUR SOUL WITH HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD  

What greater proof of love could Jesus give us than the sacrifice of himself?

Basset

Let us draw from this divine source 

that always overflows and never runs out.

Sanctuary of Love

What can I do to imitate You?

Give.

St. Martha: Feast Day, July 29

Martha, Martha,
one thing only is needful.
Luke 10:41-42 
 
St. Augustine's sermon
on Martha and Mary

Feast of St. Martha

SACRED HEART OF JESUS, SAVE US!
Sacred Heart of Jesus, be my Love!

It is Jesus Christ who is given to us!

It is Jesus Christ Who is Given to Us

St Anne with Virgin and Child

Flemish engraving St Anne with Jesus and Mary
Jesus Maria Anna

Sts. Joachim and Anne

Small Album:
St. Joachim and St. Anne

He has freed all those who, through fear of death,
throughout their whole lives were subjugated to bondage.

Feast of St. James, July 25

The Precious Blood

Mother of Divine Grace: Feast Day July 23

Mother of Divine Grace 
( Our Lady of the Bowed Head )
Vienna, Austria
Link
to story of the miraculous image.

I am the Fountain of Living Water...

Letaille

This is the true Bread of Heaven

Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, July 22

Holy Joys of God's Returning.


In the first post-resurrection encounter, Jesus appears to Mary of Magdala in the garden who does not recognize Him until, hearing Him speak the name, Mary, her eyes are opened and she turns to Him.  Look at the beautiful space between their outstretched hands. Reminiscent of Michaelangelo's painting of the Creation of Adam in the Garden of Eden, the space is filled with Life and Love. The work of our return to Life begins when, like the Penitent, each of us who has recognized the Risen Lord as our personal Savior turns to Him and receives Eternal Life through the action of the Holy Spirit. Sent by the Father into the disorder of our lives, He begins the work of our sanctification and, through us, the restoration of paradise.  Through the metaphor of the garden, we can picture the Divine Gardener as He asks us to wait in expectation for the action of the Spirit whose work and whose joy it is to restore within the seeming isolation and disorder of the human condition, the true image of the Triune God. By divine grace, it is here in the heart that we are being healed, put into right relationship with God and with one another. As the Penitent runs to tell the others, so we bring Christ to one another and to the whole of creation.

From the small album:
A Garden Enclosed

Your hearts are gardens precious to the Lord.

Sprinkle the life-giving waters of the Cross on the lilies that are planted there. 

Bouasse Lebel 1344

St. Elijah: Carmelite Solemnity - July 20

Please visit:
~Elijah Album~  for other engravings and devotional images of the prophet and links to the Bible narrative

The Holy Prophet of God Elias, Leader and Father of the Carmelite Order

Inscription in cave where, according to Carmelite tradition, Elijah stayed: "Hanc aliquando speluncam incoluit Maguns illa Prophetarum Dux et Pater Elias Thesbites". Latin for "in this cave stayed occasionally the great leader and father of the prophets Elijah the Tishbite ".

Carmelite Series III no.33

The Blood of Christ

 hand colored Lejeune

May your Precious Blood purify my soul.

Blood of Jesus!

The Lamb conducts to the fountains of Living Water 

those whose robes are washed white in His Blood.

Love.

Jesus, my God,
make it that I may love you 

as you love me.

Maison Basset

Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel: July 16

O.L. of Mount Carmel Pray for Us

K. van de Vyvere - Petyr Brugge

Novena Prayer

Free Brown Scapular  

8th Day Novena of O.L. of Mt. Carmel

Novena Prayer

It is the Blood of the Son of God

that opens for us the door of heaven. 

Blot, Paris

7th Day Novena of O.L. of Mt. Carmel

 Novena Prayer

The Blood of Jesus Christ

Lejeune, Paris

6th Day Novena of O.L. of Mt. Carmel

 Novena Prayer

FOUNTAINHEAD OF ALL MERCY
SOURCE OF GRACES

O my Jesus, how dry the heart that moves away from you.