from small album~
Wayside Shrines

Love, obeisance to our mother
hand painted 
with mother of pearl inlay

HEAVENLY REFUGE

I will not leave you orphans.

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Gentle Mother

HOLY VIRGIN
Brevel

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Gentle Mother

May 8 Apparition of St. Michael

Apparition of St. Michael

Under the sweet influence of her radiance the lilies of innocence grow and the flowers of other virtues. Bouasse Lebel 632

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Most Holy Virgin

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Most Holy Virgin

Infant of Prague: Annual Feast of the Coronation, 1st Sunday in May

Holy Child Bless Us
"The more you honor me, the more I will bless you."
A. Breger Freres
Infant of Prague Annual Feast of the coronation in Prague 1st Sunday in May
Infant of Prague Home Page

The Lord is my portion. Obtain for us, between God and ourselves, the dearest affections.
A. Saintin, Paris Geoffoi, S.C.


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Most Holy Virgin

She is my refuge. Oh, my Mother, receive me into your arms.

Bouasse Lebel

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Gentle Mother

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

Bruge

An original 19th cent. composition: collage over paper lace. Through kindness of a visitor who responded to this image, I am able to give you links to the Orthodox icon upon which it was patterned:

• The Life-Giving Fountain
• Church Fresco of the Theotokos, Life-Giving Fount 
• Mary and Fountain in Art
• Mary's Well. The Fountain of the Virgin, Nazareth

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Most Holy Virgin

God gives us an idea
of her beauty. 
Dopter

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Flowers of Mary 

DEVOTION TO THE VIRGIN
IS THE RELIGION OF THE HEART

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Wayside Shrines

4th Sunday in Easter 2012: Good Shepherd Sunday

I am the Good Shepherd

Dopter

LET US DRAW FROM THIS SOURCE DIVINE that always overflows and never runs out.

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.
Bouasse Lebel 3350

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! 

Bouasse Lebel 1288

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

Bouasse Lebel