HEART OF JESUS ABODE OF THE CONTEMPLATIVE SOUL
I want to expire in the Heart of Jesus.

I am happy with those who are as sweet and gentle as the lamb.

 

Jesus, our refuge

Sweetness is pleasing to God

MODEL OF SOULS

Mary & Joseph, grant that my love for Jesus may equal your own.

Turgis

EARTHLY TRINITY Three hearts beat as one.
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Jesus invites us to His table. It is His Body that nourishes us.
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Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, unite us with the sweet chain of love. Turgis

JESUS, MARY, JOSEPH  
Pour over us the treasures of your graces.
Turgis

FEBRUARY: Devotion, The Holy Family

2. Presentation of the Lord (Candlemas Day) (F) Feb. 2
11. Our Lady of Lourdes (F) Feb. 11
14. Sts. Cyrl and Methodius: (F) Feb. 14
12. Shrove Tuesday - The Holy Face of Jesus
13. Ash Wednesday + Lent begins + Day of Obligation + Fast


February Small Albums:

• The Holy Family
• Holy Face of Jesus

Small albums ~ Lent:

• 14 Stations of the Cross 
• Prayer to Christ Crucified 
• Amo te Jesu
• Heart Speaks to heart
• Angels Point the Way
• Images of the Holy Cross  
• Doves and the Holy Cross
• Prayer Light
• Holy Card Retreat

                                                                               My Beloved is Mine and I am His

Thomas Aquinas Feast Day, January 28

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

Eucharistic symbol also possibly alludes to the commentary by St. Thomas Aquinas on Sirach 14:40-42 See his commentary on ENLARGING THE HEART


From small album~ 
Holy Card Retreat

 

Mary Most Holy 

Liberatrice

Mother of God

and the Christ Child

untitled engraving

Dopter

The Child Jesus

Fonteney et Peltier

DIVINE BIRD KEEPER The birdsnatcher has taken advantage of your inexperience, but I am the Poor Dove and I will rescue you.
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As a mother 

caresses her child,

so I comfort you.  

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THE GOOD SHEPHERD
LEADS HIS FLOCK
AND CARRIES THE LAMB
TOO WEAK TO WALK.

Sweet Unity in the Cross of Jesus

FAITHFUL FRIEND
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Mary Most Admirable

Pray for us.

INCOMPARABLE FRIEND
I will draw all to myself by my divine simplicity.
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The Most Beautiful Gift of Mary

Little Jesus,  
my sweet Lamb,  

would that my heart 
might be your cradle.

I hold Him 
and will not let Him go 
because I chose Him 

for all my Good.

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By you O Mother and Virgin, heaven trembles with elation and the angels and the archangels rejoice. ~St Cyrille
Benziger,
Einsiedeln, Switzerland

See how He loved her.

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Be they small or large, all must be allowed to learn of Jesus  
in his crèche.
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St. Peter Thomas, Patriarch of Constantinople: Memorial, Jan. 8

Saint Peter-Thomas, Patriarch of Constantinople
Blessed are the lives of those who are consumed in the service of Holy Church! 
~ St. Teresa of Jesus 

St. Peter Thomas was inspired by an intense desire to promote peace and Christian unity. Quoting from the web site below, "His life may be summarized in three words: Mary, Union of the Greeks, and Jerusalem."
 St. Peter Thomas

I love the artist's touch of placing over the Carmelite heart the monogram of Mary.

It is good on His Heart!

Let us live holy lives that we may rest there one day.

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O INFANT,
SON OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER, HAVE MERCY ON US

Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus, January 3

He is come who his mother calls Jesus, that name so sweet and yet so powerful.   ~ Fr. Faber
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from~ Small Album:
The Holy Name of Jesus

Long expected Prince of Peace,
Save us, O Sweet Jesu.
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I am the flower of the field and the lily of the valley.