St. Mary Magdeline: Feast Day, July 22

 VISIT OF JESUS
to the Penitente soul

Her tears have pierced His Heart, and her iniquity has been drowned in a river of bitterness.
Bouasse Lebel

from ~ small album: The Divine Gardener



St. Mary Magdeline's Feast Day

The Blessed Eucharist is the Testament of the Heart of Jesus.
Turgis, Paris 

F.W. Faber: The Precious Blood Is Living in the Chalice

from ENLARGING THE HEART

FREQUENT COMMUNION
It is through this divine touch that the cold heart comes alive and gradually experiences within itself that which befits the Heart of Jesus.
Letaille 19

Grant, O my God, that my prayer, like a sweet melody, rises to you, so that it draws on all whom I love a merciful glance. 

Mme. Bouasse Lebel

From the small album, Prayer Light 

He quenches thirst at the Source of graces.

The Blood of Jesus Christ
Lejeune, Paris

The Source of Graces.
Turgis

The blood of Jesus revivifies the earth.

May your Precious Blood purify my soul.

Purify my soul, o Adorable Blood.

Come, partake of the body and blood of the victim immolated for you; come and remember that this death is your life.

Immaculate Heart of Mary: Memorial, July 2, 2011

Feasts of the Sacred Heart and the Most Precious Blood

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in You!

The Feast of the Sacred Heart is celebrated 19 days after Pentecost Sunday. Because this year's Feast falls on the first day of July,  it coincides with the Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus.

I will draw all by the links of love & charity. based on Hosea 2:14
Oh my Jesus, that you would give me to attach myself to you forever, to set ablaze the whole world with your love and to conquer by your love all hearts.
Bonamy

MAY THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS BE EVERYWHERE LOVED.
Bouasse Lebel

Sweet Heart of Jesus, be my Love!
Bouasse Lebel

Corpus Christi: Solemnity, June 26, 2011 (USA)

It is at this Divine touch that the cold heart comes alive, and little by little feels within itself that which befits the Heart of Jesus.
Letaille 19 


The Solemnity of Corpus Christi falls on June 23, 2011 throughout the world except in the United States where the celebration is transferred to the following Sunday, June 26, 2011.

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart

Corpus Christi: Solemnity, June 23, 2011 (worldwide except USA)

This is my Body
BREAD OF HEAVEN, nourish my strength to do good.

The Solemnity of Corpus Christi falls on June 23, 2011 throughout the world except in the United States where the celebration is transferred to the following Sunday, June 26, 2011.

Always united in the shadow of the Cross, under the protection of this lovely heart.
E. Bouasse-Jeune

My pleasure, O, my God,
my wealth, is your law,
My only ambition
is to be everything to you;
You hold me, in place of day in a profound night,
In the milieu of a desert
you return to me a
whole world.

The  door of Heaven will be opened to the Christian soul who is refined by Divine Love.
Basset

HOLY TRINITY: Solemnity, June 19, 2011

"JESUS' LOVE GIVES US ALL A HEART AND A REASON"
"And they were all from One Heart and Will."
17th Cent. Flemish engraving

Link to
explanation of rich symbolism

in this trinitarian image

IMAGE OF MARY

As the eagle teaches her little ones to fly into the air, 

Mary teaches us to lift our hearts towards God.  

Bouasse Lebel

Fear not. Jesus watches over you.
hand painted

Heart of Jesus, delight of hearts.
Bouasse Lebel

There, recollected and alone, in the Heart of Jesus I lose myself.
Letaille

The Brook lost in the River
My Lord and my God
~St. Thomas [the Apostle]
John 20:28

Eucharistic symbol also possibly alludes to the commentary on Sirach 13:40-42  in the writing of St. Thomas Aquinas

Small album~
Holy Card Retreat
Heart of Jesus in the Eucharist

Sacred Heart
Collage on paper lace

PENTECOST: Solemnity, May 12, 2011

Based on this passage: And there appeared to them parted tongues as it were of  fire, and it sat upon every one of them: And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Spirit gave them to speak” (Acts 2:2).
K. Van de Vyvere, Brugge, Belgium

"Then He came to the creation of man, and He created one man; and from one man the human race.  Nor did He will to create two separate beings, male and female, but one man; and from this one man He made woman (Gen. i. II). Why did He do this?  Why did He begin the human race from one man, if not to commend unity to mankind?  And the Lord Christ was born of one person. In the Virgin therefore is unity..." from Homily for the Day of Pentecost: St. Augustine

Other links:
St. Cyril of Jerusalem's sermon ~ The Holy SpiritMakes Himself Known by His Fragarance from Enlarging the Heart 
Sermon on the Feast of Pentecost ~ from The Saint Gregory Palamas Outreach

Chalice full of virtues.

Oh, she is beautiful, Mary; her heart is the temple of the Holy Spirit.
Bouasse Lebel, 674