Archive for September 2024

“The human soul is hungry for beauty.” John O’Donohue “For the Beauty of the Earth, For the glory of the skies, For the love which from our birth, over and around us lies; Lord of all to Thee we raise, endless songs of ceaseless praise.”  From the Hymn “For the Beauty of the Earth.” In…

“I did not have to ask my heart what it wanted because of all the desires I have ever known, just one did I cling to for it was the essence of all desire: to know beauty.”  St. John of the Cross “One thing I desire . . . to behold the beauty of the…

“I Am with you always . . .”  Jesus “We ask the very First Beginning to open our eyes through the ineffable peace of Christ.”  St. Bonaventure Greg was dying.  He had a rare disease that was slowly eating away at his brain and body.  There was no cure.  And so, Greg decided, after a…

“Oh how I wish you would kiss me passionately.” Song of Solomon “O night, my guide! O night more friendly than the dawn! O tender night that has tied lover and the loved one, loved one in the lover fused as one.” St. John of the Cross. “God loved the world (so passionately) that He…

“Of these three remain; faith, hope and love.  And the greatest of these is love.”  St. Paul’s first letter to The Corinthians “The wise person knows more deeply by way of love than by way of argument because the eye of the heart can see the truth of reality.” Ilia Delio If we are fortunate,…