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.
Bouasse-Lebel 1177

As a mother 

caresses her child,

so I comfort you.  

Bouasse Lebel 782B

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

Sweet Unity in the Cross of Jesus

FAITHFUL FRIEND
Bouasse Lebel

Mary Most Admirable

Pray for us.

INCOMPARABLE FRIEND
I will draw all to myself by my divine simplicity.
Bouasse Lebel 400

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.

Lataille

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.

Bouasse Lebel, edit Imp.
679

Be they small or large, all must be allowed to learn of Jesus  
in his crèche.
 Bouasse Lebel 1334

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.

Bouasse Lebel 936

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
Bouasse Lebel  

from~ Small Album:
The Holy Name of Jesus