God fills my being to the brim with floods of His immensity. I drown within a drop of Him whose sea-bed is infinity....
Quote of the day, 27 June: Jessica Powers
Quote of the day, 4 June: Jessica Powers
Poet Jessica Powers ponders the first stanza of Saint John of the Cross's poem, "The Dark Night". She asks, "How does one hush one's house?..."
Marie du jour 2022, 16 May: Jessica Powers
It is hardly surprising to learn that the poet Jessica Powers was a great hymn writer, too. One of the hymns that she wrote for the Carmelite liturgies appears on the Solemnity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. In it, she mentions the gift of the scapular.
Quote of the day, 17 March: Jessica Powers
One may kneel down and make a plea with words from book or breviary... But some day, hidden by His will, if this meek child is waiting still, God will take out His mercy-key and open up felicity, where saltiest tears are given right to seas where sapphire marries light
Quote of the day, 2 February: Jessica Powers
I made a covenant with my eyes not to be watching to see what beauty might come down to me. Christ is my beauty; Him alone I see.
Quote of the day, 9 January: Jessica Powers
To live with the Spirit of God is to be a listener. It is to keep the vigil of mystery, earthless and still. One leans to catch the stirring of the Spirit, strange as the wind's will.
Quote of the day, 14 October: Jessica Powers
What could the wise Teresa have been thinking to set these bounds on even my little love? This walling, barring, minimizing, shrinking— how could her great Castilian heart approve?
Quote of the day, 29 September: Jessica Powers
Then why should I take fright when foes or demons assail me with their treacheries or wrath, when I have knowledge that the Queen's archangel is keeper of my path?
Quote of the day, 15 August: Jessica Powers
Life which comes as a virgin to us all, most safely came to her. Time, when she passed, remained inviolate.
Quote of the day, 4 August: Jessica Powers
God is the strangest of all lovers; His ways are past explaining. He sets His heart on a soul...
Quote of the day, 16 July: Jessica Powers
Grant us grace to climb Mount Carmel and to learn that love is loss. Guide us still our ways outdistance all earth’s treasures save the cross.
Quote of the day, 7 July: Sr. Miriam of the Holy Spirit, O.C.D.
Your own reflection has revealed Your place, for she is utter light by Your own grace
Marie du jour 2021, May 31: Jessica Powers
I see a girl upon a donkey... I doubt the flowers; I doubt the road was kind
Marie du jour 2021, May 27: Jessica Powers
The Virgin Mary cannot enter into my soul for an indwelling. God alone has sealed this land as secretly His own
Quote of the day, 21 February: Jessica Powers
I entered the kingdom in Noah's week at the sign of the rainbow
Quote of the day, 29 December: Jessica Powers
Where heart beat, there was Christ for me
Quote of the day: 8 September
And in her light I find You hid within me
Quote of the day: 29 August
This is the badge of the friends of the Man of Sorrows: the mark of the cross, faint replica of His
Quote of the day: 4 July
I who bear God in the mysteries of grace beseech her: Cloud, encompass God and me.
Marie du jour 2020: 16 May
By the scapular we wear be your own sign of salvation
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