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“…your heart is not shaped like a valentine heart, perfect and regular in contour. It is slightly irregular in shape as if a small piece of it were missing out of its side…as if when God created your heart, He kept a small sample of it in heaven, and sent the rest of it into the world, where it would each day learn the lesson that it could never be really happy, that it could never be wholly in love, that it could never be really whole-hearted until it rested with the Risen Christ.” Ven. Archbishop Fulton Sheen “Manifestations of Christ”

Hail, holy Queen, Mother of mercy, hail, our life, our sweetness and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve: to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Turn then, most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus, O merciful, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary! Pray for us, O holy Mother of God, that we made be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Amen.

The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Babe, are therefore the only ones who will ever understand the reason of His visitation. He came to this poor earth of ours to carry on an exchange; to say to us, as only the Good God could say: ‘you give me your humanity, and I will give you my Divinity; you give me your time, and I will give you My eternity; you give me your broken heart, and I will give you Love; you give me your nothingness, and I will give you My all. Ven. Archbishop Fulton Sheen, “The Eternal Galilean”Beautiful painting by @friemel_fine_art

The Infant Christ is the whole Christ. Christ was not more God, more Christ, more man, on the Cross than He was in His Mother’s womb. His first tear, His first smile, His first breath, His first pulsation in the womb of His Mother, could have redeemed the world. In fact Christ chose the life of growth and work and suffering and the death on the Cross which we know, but, by His own choice, all this was to depend on a human being giving herself to Him in His infancy, giving her own humanity to the actual making of that infant’s humanity and giving Him her life in which to rest. “The Passion of the Infant Christ” by Caryll Houselander

You have light in dark, and shut in little room, Immensity cloistered in your dear womb. ~John Donne

Where Mary is, all is made lovely; all is well-ordered. She is beautiful. She is wholly in God’s order of grace, wholly in His image and likeness. May we continually open before her the roughly woven tilma of our lives, that she may lovingly receive the offering, touch it with her hands and place it back restored and beautiful for the Bridegroom to rejoice in it. -Sister Ines, O.C.D.

Every soul is a wonderful treasure; every man is unique and irreplaceable. Every single person is worth all the blood of Christ. St. Josemaria Escriva, Christ is Passing By

Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord’s loving heart. Pope Benedict XVI

Lift up your countenance to heaven, then. Behold Me, and with Me all My saints. They had great trials in this life, but now they rejoice. They are consoled. Now they are safe and at rest. And they shall abide with Me for all eternity in the kingdom of My Father. Imitation of Christ (3, 47)

Jesus is where you are, and you can trust that he will show you the next step. ~Henri J. M. Nouwen Image Schmalen Design

O my beloved Jesus, unite me to Thyself: my heart to Thy Heart, my soul to Thy Soul, all that I am to all that Thou art. “In Sinu Jesu”

“It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle…” Saint John Paul II .

“Our soul, like Mary’s body, is to receive God Himself if only we, like her, believe, consent and receive; if only we speak her truly magic word, ‘Fiat’, “Let it be.” It is the creative word, the word God used to create the universe.” Peter Kreeft

It is My Heart that waits for you in the tabernacle; it is My gaze that, full of tenderness, fixes itself, from the tabernacle, on those who draw near to it. I am not there for My own sake. I am there to feed you and to fill you with the joys of My presence. “In Sinu Jesu”

There is only one end to which I can direct you: to Jesus, to Jesus who will become the light of your life. Fr. Emile Neubert, SM My Ideal: Jesus Son of Mary

Dear brothers and sisters, let us allow ourselves to be guided by the star that is the word of God, let us follow it in our lives, walking with the Church in which the Word has pitched his tent. Our road will always be illumined by a light that no other sign can give us. And we too shall become stars for others, a reflection of that light which Christ caused to shine upon us. Amen. Pope Benedict XVI

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