Forward in Joy

"In the Year of Our Lord" (En el año de nuestro Señor) by George Henry Grenville Manton (1914)

In this relationship of curiosity and trust we see an icon of the relationship between a person and God. God ordains in the human spirit a driving curiosity that we never lose, and it is God who we can trust most fully to answer the questions we have. When we have a question of the workings of the spiritual, we need only to go to Him: to His Word, to His Church, or to Him directly in prayer. And when we have a question of the workings of the material, we go to His Creation and study it to behold His ordering through the sciences like many saints have: St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Isidore of Seville, St. Bede the Venerable, St. John Damascene, and more. It is through this questioning that we signify that we trust that the Lord knows all, and that the Lord is Truth.

James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

“O life so dull and monotonous, how many treasures you contain! The grace which is given me in this hour will not be repeated in this next.” - St Faustina Kowalska, The Diary, 62

I thought of this meme during adoration and am very comforted by it

this every time I receive the Holy Communion (especially if it's y'know, on hand) 💗💗💗

God Speaks to the Soul by Mechthild of Magdeburg, trans. Oliver Davies

Philip Hermogenes Calderon (British, 1833 - 1898) Ave Maria, c. 1858

At the Window, art by Hans Olaf Heyerdahl (1881)

Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Guido Reni, circa 1606

- St. Cosmas of Aetolia

Captured by photographer Steve McCurry at the Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Foresta in Rieti, Italy.