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

She has listened to her good angel, and her good angel has led her to Jesus.

Look at the little birds of heaven
they neither sow nor reap.
Vaurs

Third Sunday in Easter 2012

This is My Body

BREAD OF HEAVEN
Support my strength to do good.
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Multiplication of the loaves and the fishes.

This morning Fr. Lawrence asked us to sit down as he read the Gospel account of the multiplication of the loaves and the fishes. We are lower than the angels, he explained. The detail of asking the crowd to sit down on the grass was Christ's way of helping us realize that as we prepare for receiving Him in the Eucharist we need to recognize our lowliness and acknowledge our total dependence upon Him.

Ask the Lord, 
always ask, 

ask again! 

The Lord loves to fill  
those who pray! 

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Come to the most sweet medicine.

I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. John 14:6
Saintin,Paris

Let us go and drink
at the source of grace.
Dopter, Paris

The Good Shepherd 

"I give my life for my sheep."  
Bouasse Lebel

FLOWERS OF CALVARY

The Cross is the gift

God made for His friends.

Cure d'Ars

The Joy of God's Returning

Easter Sunday, April 8, 2012

Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament

Easter Vigil, April 7, 2012

Lord, open to me the holy house that your love has prepared for me. Turgis.
Note: The word bercail means sheepfold, so the meaning is perhaps more intimate, more like home than house; it is referring of course to the church, the Body of Christ. Also there is a small printing error in the card ~ ma should have been m'a.  I love the card because it recalls the promises in John 10 that Jesus is both the shepherd and the door. He is the true shepherd to whom the doorkeeper opens the door (John 10:3). He is also the door itself (John 10:9).

Aubérpine

Symbol of the Holy Crown of Thorns

“But in order that you should have life, it is not enough that My Son should have become the Bridge, unless you pass over this Bridge.”

~ God the Father to St. Catherine of Siena in The Dialogue 

As fragile as the wings of a butterfly, this delicate piece of paper lace also alludes to the metaphor of the bridge. In the dialogues St. Catherine of Sienna, Jesus Christ was described as the magnificent bridge between heaven and earth.

He brings and preaches 

PEACE OF HEART

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The Cross is the bridge that connects heaven and earth. np


















For Lent & every day of the year:  ENLARGING THE HEART ~ Mark Armitage's gracious offering of devotional readings from the early fathers and the saints.

PSALTER OF THE LOVERS OF JESUS I myself am book for you! Have confidence; my death gives you life. O Marie, teach us to meditate, to taste this Book divine. Letaille








For Lent and all year:  ENLARGING THE HEART ~ Mark Armitage's gracious offering of devotional readings.

Father, Son and Holy Spirit















For Lent and all year:  ENLARGING THE HEART ~ Mark Armitage's gracious offering of devotional readings.

Pray thus, Our Father who art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name.

Your hearts are gardens precious to the Lord.

Sprinkle with the life-giving waters of your Cross, the lilies sown there. 

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I know my sheep, and my sheep know Me.
John 10:7-16
Bénerd, Paris



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

Walk in my Presence, and you will be perfect.







SMALL ALBUM:
Doves and the Cross

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

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

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