Strive to preserve your heart in peace; let no event of this world disturb it; reflect that all must come to an end.
Saint John of the Cross
Sayings of Light and Love, 154
John of the Cross, St. 1991, The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, Revised Edition, translated from the Spanish by Kavanaugh, K and Rodriguez, O with revisions and introductions by Kavanaugh, K, ICS Publications, Washington DC.
Featured image: Eucharistic adoration in the Church of St. Jean Baptiste in New York City. | Image credit: Fr. Lawrence Lew, OP / Flickr (Some rights reserved). This is a detail of Father’s photo, which you can see in its entirety on his Flickr photostream.
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I do have difficulty sometimes with longer posts, but wow, this is succinct and powerful!!! “Let nothing disturb thee, nothing affright thee…” Reminds me too of St Francis de Sales, so it must be a universal principle of the Faith. Thanks for the great concept to begin the week (well, on Monday anyway)…
Very A-B-C, like the Serenity prayer.