Updated: 29/ 06 / 2010
Lovers of Beauty




The good God does not need years to accomplish His work of love in a soul; one ray from His Heart can, in an instant, make His flower bloom for eternity...

                  St Therese
             
            Beautiful Moments

Those whom he saved from their sins are saved simply for beautiful moments in their lives. Mary Magdalen, when she sees Christ, breaks the rich vase of alabaster that one of her seven lovers had given her, and spills the odorous spices over his tired dusty feet, and for that one moment's sake sits for ever with Ruth and Beatrice in the tresses of the snow-white rose of Paradise.

                Oscar Wilde



Meeting a soul mate does not guarantee a happy life, but forgiving each other does.

                Diana Dreyer

Let us abandon everything within the scope of our thoughts and determine to love what is beyond comprehension. We touch and hold God by Love alone.

       The Cloud of Unknowing


If you want to be sure of the ground you stand on, then close your eyes and walk in the dark.

          St. John of the Cross

The beast in me is caged by frail and fragile bars. Every morning I wake up and the beast is howling. So I have to pray and dedicate that day to God, and then the beast lays low.

                Johnny Cash

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   St Therese of Lisieux

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Love is repaid by Love alone

    St John of the Cross


















My understanding is that God, Who Is the source of Love, created each of us with the potential to spend our eternity enraptured by Divine Love.
However, we are here in this short prelude to eternity just so as we can decide whether to love God and our fellow human beings, or not, because Heaven exists only for those who love.



St. Therese


Therese Martin must have been an incredible person. The youngest of 9 children of a French middle-class family, she entered a Carmelite convent at the age of 15 and lived a short but very inspired life. Here was a young girl who didn't waste time!
She understood that, of all the possible vocations, the greatest one to aim for was the contemplation of God's pure Love.
Her faith in the God of Love was absolute. The most sublime form of prayer for her was just to love God by being lost in the contemplation of Divine presence - in that form of prayer where words would only become obstacles.
She had a deep appreciation of the beauty of nature and especially flowers; she liked to consider herself as a "little flower" and the basis of her spirituality was just to live a normal life but to be 100% motivated by Love.
Therese suffered ill health and died of tuberculosus in 1897 at the age of 24. She was canonized by the Catholic Church in 1925.
A fresh green palm was placed in the hand of St. Thérèse just before closing her coffin for burial on October 4, 1897. When the first canonical exhumation took place on September 6, 1910, her body had disintegrated (as she had foretold in a vision the night before to the Prioress of the Gallipoli Carmel). In her skeleton hand the green palm was found in all its freshness and can still be seen today in the Hall of Relics beside the Carmel Chapel. It is truly remarkable to see.
The Carmelite habit in which she had been buried was still fully intact but, on touch, was at the point of disintegration. (Thanks to the late V. Rev. Fr. J. Linus Ryan, O. Carm R.I.P for updated information)






St Therese


Love is the solution, the cure for every kind of problem. And God is Love.



                        






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