As the Father has loved me, 
so have I loved you. 

Now remain in my love.
John 15:9

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God of Childhood

Go to Joseph Whoever you are, pray to St. Joseph. He can and wants to grant your petitions. His power knows no bounds, and his kindness extends to all who call on him with confidence. Letaille 1021/Boumard

St. Teresa of Jesus: Carmelite Solemnity, October 15

Portrait
Euorpean postcard 



Doctor of the Church
"Doctor of Prayer"

I often consider, my Christ, how pleasing and delightful are your eyes to one who loves you.
~ St. Teresa of Avila ( St. Teresa of Jesus)

Evil will not reach you; 

God confides you to His angels.

Breval




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Holy Guardian Angels

Untitled
Bouasse Lebel

Sermon on the Guardian Angels
by St. Bernard of Clarvieux

Pure like Mary, Humble like Mary.

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The Holy Name of Mary

O, Mother of Mercy! We sigh unto thee in this valley of tears. Letaille

Visit of the Good Master
Bouasse Lebel 

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Heart speaks to heart ~ Cor ad cor loquitur

With everlasting love I have loved you and drawn you to myself.

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God of Childhood

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Gentle Mother

St. Dominic receives the Holy Rosary.Bouasse Lebel 3396

The Rosary
excellent source of information

Rosary in the Desert: Mary's Psalter 

Nature's Troubador

"But as for me, I desire this
privilege from the Lord,
that never may I have any
privilege from man, except
to do reverence to all..."
~from The Little Flowers of St. Francis

Music video:
Prayer of St. Francis - Make me a Channel of Your Peace

 
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Holy Guardian Angels

The Wishes of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus
I wish to spend my Heaven
doing good upon the earth.

Blessed Thérèse of the Child Jesus
in meditation in the monastery garden
3rd class relic card - published by the Carmelites before her canonization

Magnitude of the Small Virtues
Gentleness and simplicity
are the favorites of Jesus.
Bouasse Lebel, 1362

Guardian Angels: Solemnity, 1st Sunday in October (by papal privilege)

My good angel,
do not abandon me.
Vve. Bouasse Lebel, Paris
Pl. 565

Feast of the Guardian Angels
"...Although October 2 has been fixed for this feast in the Roman calendar, it is kept, by papal privilege, in Germany and many other places on the first Sunday (computed ecclesiastically) of September, and is celebrated with special solemnity and generally with an octave."
Catholic Encyclopedia


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Jerome 345-420. Doctor of the Church: Feast Day, September 30

St. Jerome - Doctor of Biblical Science
“Does one not seem to dwell, already here on earth, in the Kingdom of Heaven when one lives with these texts, when one meditates on them, when one does not know or seek anything else?” 
St. Jerome

Feast of the Archangels: September 29

Videos with Church teaching on 
Feast of the Archangels
The Archangels
The Eastern Church also celebrates the Archangels on this day. Homily by Met. Pavlos of America (Greek Orthodox) can be heard on this video:
Homily on the Archangels

More about the work of the holy angels:
Opus Sanctorum Angelorum  and
Catechesis on the Holy Angels

The thought of the cross changes thorns to roses.

Most Holy Mary Liberator
Venerated in the Church of the
Most Holy Trinity in Rome

The Cross Sanctifies the Soul.
Handpainted

God is Love
He who guards love lives in God and God in him.

Draw me into the bonds of Thy love.

O, Jesus, that your love might be the peace and repose of my soul,
the strength and happiness,
the aspiration of my life... 
the whole of my heart.

Queen of Angels

The angels contemplate her beauty and obey her in all things.

Bouasse Lebel 971

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Queen of Heaven and Earth

Let us pray
in the morning,
Let us pray
in the evening;
God loves us
to go to Him.

Dopter

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Prayer Light

The Divine Shepherdess I will cure all your ills.  I will bandage your wounds with the oil of mercy and the wine of love. Letaille 211

Your hearts are gardens precious to Jesus.
Sprinkle with the living waters of his Cross the lilies He has sown.
















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Images of the Holy Cross

The Chosen Flock: in joy and pain it remains faithful to the divine shepherdess. Bouasse Lebel 1084 
















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Divine Bergere

Divine Shepherdess Bouasse Lebel

St. Helena
Gladbach

Another good link to the  
Exaltation of the Cross

St. John Chrysostom,Doctor of the Church, Feast Day: September 13

St. John Chrysostom,  Bishop of Constantinople. Patron of preachers and called Golden-Mouthed because of his eloquence.


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Doctors of the Church