“Chesterton never wanted to get used to (surprises). He said, ‘Things grow new as I grow old,’ and that brings to mind for me Therese’s own remarkable ambition — ‘I must stay little and become this more and more.’… There is something in this littleness, this vulnerability that caused both their hearts to burn. And that something is actually the…
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Mother of Divine Providence
A Little Litany “When God turned back eternity and was young, Ancient of Days, grown little for your mirth (As under the low arch the land is bright) Peered through you, gate of heaven–and saw the earth. Or shutting out his shining skies awhile Built you about him for a house of gold To see in pictured walls his storied…
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Children of Mary
The words in the image (above) are of the Franciscan saint-martyr, St. Maximilian Kolbe, which I found on a chalkboard in a home in the Shenandoah Valley, circa fall 2017. Here are the words: “My dear, dear brothers, our dear little, little mother, Immaculate Mary, can do anything for us. We are her children. Turn to her. She will overcome anything.”…
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Mary, Star of the Sea
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the…
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St. Bernadette and Childlike Trust
“In the evening when you go to sleep, hold your beads, doze off reciting them, do like those babies who go to sleep mumbling, ‘Mamma! Mamma!'” St. Bernadette Soubirous (b. 1844- d. 1879) The advice, in the above quote, from St. Bernadette might sound silly to sophisticated ears, but so be it. The little saint of Lourdes was simply stating a…
