Realizing love...

 "The soul hardly ever realizes it, but 

whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really 

a homesickness for God." - Dom Hubert Van Zeller

"A lot of trouble about prayer would disappear

if only we realized - really realized -

that we go to pray not because we love prayer,

but because we love God."

Dom Hubert Van Zeller

Ask great graces...

“Therefore enlarge your heart, and

do not ask things of small importance, but

ask great graces.... " - St Leonard of Port Maurice

"I often speak with my Teacher,

Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament,

because I can learn from Him.

Jesus is the Teacher

of the science of holiness.

I go to Him because

I would like to learn from Him

how to become a saint.

Of what use to me

is all knowledge and education,

if I do not become holy!?"

St. Francis de Sales

Painting above:  El Rosario ~ José Gallegos Arnosa

Hear what I say without speaking...

Let me hear what God the Lord will speak, 

for He will speak peace to His people, to His saints, 

to those who turn to Him in their hearts. - Psalm 85:8

"Hail, sacred tabernacles! … 

Oh, I love Your temple!  

It is an island of peace in the ocean of the world. ...

Is there a tongue equal to the ecstasy of the heart?   

Whatever my lips may say, this blood that circulates in me,

this breath that breathes in me, this heart that beats and swells,

these tear-bathed eyes, this still silence - all of these pray within me. 

Just as the waves swell at the rising of the King of day, 
the stars revolve, mute with reverence and love,

and You understand their silent hymn, so, Lord, in the same way,

understand me; hear what I say without speaking.  

Silence is the highest voice of a heart

that is overcome with Your glory!"

St Paul of the Cross