St Theophane bed för oss!

En av Vietnams många martyrer som firas idag.
"On the way to martyrdom Father Vénard chanted psalms and hymns. To his executioner, who coveted his clothing and asked what he would give to be killed promptly, he answered: "The longer it lasts the better it will be"."

The Pool of God

"There was nothing in the Virgin’s soul


that belonged to the Virgin–


no word, no thought, no image, no intent.


She was a pure, transparent pool reflecting


God, only God.


She held His burnished day; she held His night


of planet-glow or shade inscrutable.


God was her sky and she who mirrored Him


became His firmament.



When I so much as turn my thoughts toward her


my spirit is enisled in her repose.


And when I gaze into her selfless depths


an anguish in me grows


to hold such blueness and to hold such fire.


I pray to hollow out my earth and be 


filled with these waters of transparency.


I think that one could die of this desire,


seeing oneself dry earth or stubborn sod.


Oh, to become a pure pool like the Virgin,


water that lost the semblances of water


and was a sky like God."

Syster Miriam av Den Helige Ande OCD (Jessica Powers)

Marias obefläckade hjärta

"We can say that the mystery of the Redemption took shape beneath the heart of the Virgin of Nazareth when she pronounced her "fiat". From then on, under the special influence of the Holy Spirit, this heart, the heart of both a virgin and a mother, has always followed the work of her Son and has gone out to all those whom Christ has embraced and continues to embrace with inexhaustible love." Johannes Paulus II Redemptor Hominis

De Caussade

Do we not know that by all creatures, and by every event the divine love desires to unite us to Himself, that He has ordained, arranged, or permitted everything about us, everything that happens to us with a view to this union? This is the ultimate object of all His designs to attain which He makes use of the worst of His creatures as well as of the best, and of the most distressing events as well as of those which are pleasant and agreeable. Our communion with Him is even more meritorious when the means that serve to make it closer are repugnant to nature. If this be true, every moment of our lives may be a kind of communion with the divine love, and this communion of every moment may produce as much fruit in our souls as that which we receive in the Communion of the Body and Blood of the Son of God.

Överlåtelse åt Guds försyn.

Salve Regina Mater Misericordiae

From the beginning, and before the world, was I created, and unto the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy dwelling place I have ministered before him.
And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem.
And I took root in an honourable people, and in the portion of my God his inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of saints.

Från Syraks bok

Chez nous soyez Reine

Chez nous soyez Reine
Nous sommes à vous
Régnez en Souveraine
Chez nous, chez nous,
Soyez la Madone
Qu'on prie à genoux
Qui sourit et pardonne
Chez nous, chez nous.

Reningsorten

"Den minsta smärtan i skärselden är värre än den värsta smärtan på jorden."

"Samtidigt som de lider fruktansvärt finns det inte några som är lyckligare förutom helgonen i himlen." St Katarina av Genua

Virtus Religionis

Om den mest mänskliga av alla dygder

Vredens dag

Dies irae, dies illa
solvet saeclum in favilla:
teste David cum Sibylla.

Quantus tremor est futurus,
quando judex est venturus,
cuncta stricte discussurus!

Tuba mirum spargens sonum
per sepulcra regionum,
coget omnes ante thronum.

Mors stupebit et natura,
cum resurget creatura,
judicanti responsura.

Liber scriptus proferetur,
in quo totum continetur,
unde mundus judicetur.

Judex ergo cum sedebit,
quidquid latet apparebit:
nil inultum remanebit.

Quid sum miser tunc dicturus?
Quem patronum rogaturus,
cum vix justus sit securus?

Rex tremendae majestatis,
qui salvandos salvas gratis,
salva me fons pietatis.

Recordare, Jesu pie,
quod sum causa tuae viae:
ne me perdas illa die.

Quaerens me, sedisti lassus:
redemisti Crucem passus:
tantus labor non sit cassus.

Juste judex ultionis,
donum fac remissionis
ante diem rationis.

Ingemisco, tamquam reus:
culpa rubet vultus meus:
supplicanti parce, Deus.

Qui Mariam absolvisti,
et latronem exaudisti,
mihi quoque spem dedisti.

Preces meae non sunt dignae:
sed tu bonus fac benigne,
ne perenni cremer igne.

Inter oves locum praesta,
et ab haedis me sequestra,
statuens in parte dextra.

Confutatis maledictis,
flammis acribus addictis:
voca me cum benedictis.

Oro supplex et acclinis,
cor contritum quasi cinis:
gere curam mei finis.

Lacrimosa dies illa,
qua resurget ex favilla
judicandus homo reus.

Huic ergo parce, Deus:
pie Jesu Domine,
dona eis requiem. Amen.