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May 3rd - Month of Mary

This painting I did was based off of one of my spouse's favorite statues of Mary. I framed the original painting and it was bought by one of my friends from grade school. Actually, now that I think about it, I'm not 100% if I framed it or if my friend did. I remember he sent me a photo but I can't find it.

I added the purple background digitally for this greeting card.

#art #jesus #mother mary

conduit-of-grace

“If Love, even human love, gives so many consolations here, what will Love be in Heaven?”

- St. Josemaria Escriva, “Love of God” from The Way, #428

#quotes #saints

itspileofgoodthings

“Above all, you must be rid of the hideous idea, fruit of a widespread inferiority complex, that pomp, on the proper occasions, has any connexion with vanity or self-conceit. A celebrant approaching the altar, a princess led out by a king to dance a minuet, a general officer on a ceremonial parade, a major-domo preceding the boar’s head at a Christmas feast — all these wear unusual clothes and move with calculated dignity. This does not mean that they are vain, but that they are obedient; they are obeying the hoc age which presides over every solemnity. The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender’s inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.”

C.S. Lewis, Preface to Paradise Lost

#text #cs lewis #ref

theraccolta

Rituals of the Cistercian Order

#photos #people #nuns

apenitentialprayer

The desolation will certainly come. Prepare for it, not only by laying up a store of comfort, but also by laying up a store of strength to carry you through the dark hours of the storm. Train yourself now to a rule of life, to exactness in prayer, to good methods of performing your several duties, to patience and charity, so that when the storm breaks, you may gather in all your sails, pull your ship together, and hold on bravely and faithfully through darkness and dryness and disgust and despair. Fidelity is the great virtue of the time of desolation; fidelity to God, fidelity in faith, fidelity in hope, fidelity in charity, fidelity to your own good resolutions of the time of consolation, and fidelity to prayer, the sacraments, and all the outward helps of a holy life.

George Porter, S.J., future Archbishop of Bombay, in a letter to a young nun dated April 27th, 1882

#text

replanting

“Faith is not acceptance but protest— against the world that is, in favor of the world that should be.”

—Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

#quotes #faith #judaism

bagels-art

Our Lady of Perpetual Help, an entry for a coloring book arranged by a fellow catholic artist. i gave it a go and colored it myself, also please check out the coloring book if you will!!

https://daisystokrotka.wordpress.com/little-flower-activity-book/

Free downloadable, printable resources with a Christian theme by various artists made especially for those struggling during the COVID-19 ou

my version isn’t as traditional but there was something about the angle of baby Jesus’ head in the originals...

#art #jesus #mother mary

cruciform-solidarity

What use is the Christ of the Bible to us, if we do not have him in our hearts?

Eduard Wüst, quoted in Peter Hoover with Serguei V. Petrov, The Russians' Secret: What Christians Today Would Survive Persecution?

#quotes #jesus

theraccolta

My Book of the Church’s Year by Enid M. Chadwick

#art #trinity

cy-lindric

Sancte Michael Memento Mei Ante Deum

Horae ad usum Trecensem dites Heures de Michel Berthier, 1415-1420

#art #angels

coeur-de-marie

Ave Maris Stella Hail, star of the sea, Nurturing Mother of God, And ever Virgin Happy gate of Heaven.

#mother mary

apenitentialprayer

When we love God with our whole heart and mind, we necessarily love all those whom God has loved into existence.

Bishop Robert Barron (This is My Body: A Call to Eucharistic Revival, page 35)

#quotes

theinwardlight

“Jesus loved and chose solitudes, often going to mountains, to gardens, and sea-sides to avoid crowds and hurries; to show his disciples it was good to be solitary, and sit loose to the world.”

— William Penn, 1694

#quotes #jesus