How to Heal a Broken Relationship — Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermon

"We must ask of souls only what they can give: of some, a continuous upward surge of heroism; of others, little steps, which bring them ever nearer the end to be attained. But, to be configured to Christ, every soul must sacrifice itself under some form or other."

-- Reginald Garrigou-LaGrange, The Three Ages of the Interior Life

I've been looking and looking for my dishes, and today I finally found this.

😄❤️😥

I guess they were one of the last things that got packed last year. 

"I love with an immense love the soul that loves Me without falsehood....God asks only love from the soul; for He Himself loves without falsehood, and is Himself the love of the soul."

 -- Jesus, to St. Angela of Foligno

"Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. It has only happened to me like that once. I have been alone while I was with many girls and that is the way that you can be most lonely. But we were never alone and never afraid when we were together."

-- Ernest Hemmingway, A Farewell to Arms

"If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, it is yours forever. If it doesn't, it never was."

- unknown

"He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animate abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely." -- Dostoevsky

I hope that I treated you well
for the time that you were mine
I hope that I did everything I could
to cherish your heart and mind

I hope that I made you a better woman
as you made me a better man
I hope that we found, and didn't miss
the paths for our lives in The Plan

I hope that each moment you spent with me
was as good as I spent with you
a moment of healing, a moment of love
a moment of beauty and truth

I hope that as you go your way
on the road that your life takes
that you will remember with fondness and joy
our moments of love and faith

I hope that one day, we'll see one another
and that in that moment you'll say
"Thank you for letting me go, for now, I know
that it was The Way."

...it had to be

A year ago today...

My beautiful daughter, Adina, has passed on to a better life. I love you, and I will see you before too long.

"Through error you come to the truth."

 -- Dostoevsky 

When You're Gone

Ballade pour Adeline

Ballade pour Adina. Parce que tu aimais la musique triste au piano. Tu me manques tellement.

"He to whom the eternal Word speaketh is delivered from a multitude of opinions."

-- The Imitation of Christ