Lord, I come to your tender heart today,

to you who have words that set my heart ablaze, to you who pour out compassion on the little ones and the poor, on those who suffer, and on all human miseries.

I desire to know you more, to contemplate you in the Gospel, to be with you and learn from you and from the charity with which you allowed yourself to be touched by all forms of poverty. You showed us the Father’s love by loving us without measure with your divine and human heart.

Grant all your children the grace of encountering you. Change, shape, and transform our plans, so that we seek only you in every circumstance: in prayer, in work, in encounters, and in our daily routine.

From this encounter, send us out on mission,

a mission of compassion for the world

in which you are the source from which all consolation flows.

Considerabam ad dexteram, et videbam, et non erat qui cognosceret me.

“two earthlings”, an absolutely devastating oil painting that i think about every single day

Man has gotten the bus home (car crushed by giant crab) to find more sea creatures on his property

I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid.

I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid.