I have but my heart. 

Take it, O, Mary, with all its weaknesses 

and fill it with grace for eternal life.

Bouasse Lebel, Paris
Pl. 1233

Sweet Heart of Mary

First Friday

Learn from me for I am gentle and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Matthew 11:29
Serz 

small album~
Sacred Heart of Jesus

Feast of the Transfiguration, August 6

"Listen to Him."

"It is good to be here."

Chas. Van de Vyvere , Brugge, Belgium

She is your mother. Turn to her in all your needs.

Bouasse Lebel, Paris 29 rue St. Sulpice Pl. 875

Vigil of the Feast of the Transfiguration

They saw Moses and Elijah speaking with Jesus.

Felix, Paris

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

Bouasse Lebel

Feast of St. Mary Major, August 5

Salus Populi Romani
Salvation of the Roman People
patterned from Hodigitria icon attributed to St. Luke
Venerated in the Church of St. Mary Major in Rome
Feast Day August 5

THE GOOD ACTIONS OF A CHILD OF MARY

form a crown most precious

FOR THE HEART OF THIS GOOD MOTHER

Bouasse Lebel 1288

FLOWERS OF THE EARTH

I breathed the fragrance of their virtue, and drew them to myself to form the heart of my Mother.

Bouasse Lebel 103

I see and retrace the virtues of Mary. 

Vve. Bouasse Lebel

Feast of Mary Queen of Angels, August 2

Queen of Angels

The angels contemplate her beauty

and obey her in all things.

INVOCATION

Mary, make us worthy to be called your children.

Dopter, Paris

THE MOST HIGH HAS SANCTIFIED HIS TABERNACLE~ Ps. 45

She is a garden enclosed and a fountain sealed. ~ Song of Songs

Open to me your Immaculate Heart, O Mary. I have chosen it as home.

Souvenir of December 8, 1854

AUGUST: Devotion The Heart of Mary

AUGUST: Devotion The Heart of Mary

• Sweet Heart of Mary
• Doves and the Heart of Mary
• Heart of Jesus and Mary
• Doves and the Heart of Jesus and Mary
• Mary's Meadow
• Gentle Mother
• Dormition / Assumption of Virgin Mary
• Feast of the Transfiguration 
• Queen of Heaven and Earth
• Divine Pilot
• Holy Card Retreat

Feasts and Memorials in August:

1. St. Alfonsus Liguri (M) August 1

2. Our Lady Queen of Angels (F) August 2

4. St. John Vianney (Cure d'Ars) (M) August 4
5. Dedication of St. Mary Major (M) August 5

6. Transfiguration of Christ: (F) August 6

8. St. Dominic (M) August 8

15. Dormition / Asumption of Virgin Mary (F) Aug. 15 (Ob)

20. St. Bernard of Clairvaux: (M) August 20

22. Queenship of Mary (M) August 22

28. St. Augustine (M) August 28

O, My Savior Jesus Christ, only object of my desires.

Come and participate in the body and blood

 of the victim immolated for us; come and remember 

that this death is our life.
Jacques Benigne Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux in France

Basilica of the Precious Blood

Basilica of the Precious Blood in Bruges

JESUS ​NOURISHES OUR SOUL WITH HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD  

What greater proof of love could Jesus give us than the sacrifice of himself?

Basset

Let us draw from this divine source 

that always overflows and never runs out.

Sanctuary of Love

What can I do to imitate You?

Give.

St. Martha: Feast Day, July 29

Martha, Martha,
one thing only is needful.
Luke 10:41-42 
 
St. Augustine's sermon
on Martha and Mary

Feast of St. Martha

SACRED HEART OF JESUS, SAVE US!
Sacred Heart of Jesus, be my Love!

It is Jesus Christ who is given to us!

It is Jesus Christ Who is Given to Us

St Anne with Virgin and Child

Flemish engraving St Anne with Jesus and Mary
Jesus Maria Anna

Sts. Joachim and Anne

Small Album:
St. Joachim and St. Anne

He has freed all those who, through fear of death,
throughout their whole lives were subjugated to bondage.

Feast of St. James, July 25

The Precious Blood

Mother of Divine Grace: Feast Day July 23

Mother of Divine Grace 
( Our Lady of the Bowed Head )
Vienna, Austria
Link
to story of the miraculous image.

I am the Fountain of Living Water...

Letaille

This is the true Bread of Heaven

Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, July 22

Holy Joys of God's Returning.


In the first post-resurrection encounter, Jesus appears to Mary of Magdala in the garden who does not recognize Him until, hearing Him speak the name, Mary, her eyes are opened and she turns to Him.  Look at the beautiful space between their outstretched hands. Reminiscent of Michaelangelo's painting of the Creation of Adam in the Garden of Eden, the space is filled with Life and Love. The work of our return to Life begins when, like the Penitent, each of us who has recognized the Risen Lord as our personal Savior turns to Him and receives Eternal Life through the action of the Holy Spirit. Sent by the Father into the disorder of our lives, He begins the work of our sanctification and, through us, the restoration of paradise.  Through the metaphor of the garden, we can picture the Divine Gardener as He asks us to wait in expectation for the action of the Spirit whose work and whose joy it is to restore within the seeming isolation and disorder of the human condition, the true image of the Triune God. By divine grace, it is here in the heart that we are being healed, put into right relationship with God and with one another. As the Penitent runs to tell the others, so we bring Christ to one another and to the whole of creation.

From the small album:
A Garden Enclosed