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…
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The Little Way of St. Therese
“If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.” St. Therese of Lisieux (b. 1873- d. 1897) A well known writer on the Little Way* of St. Therese…
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The Green Beard of a Giant
“You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.” Flannery O’Connor “All the optimism of the age had been false and disheartening for this reason, that it had always been trying to prove that we fit in to the world. The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world. I had…
