Happy Feast of the Assumption!

"Just as you accompanied Our Lord in this life and lived and loved and suffered with him, so, at the completion of your life, he takes you body and soul into heaven.

With my whole heart I share in your happiness and pray that the world may enjoy a similar fate."
~Heavenwards, by Fr. Joseph Kentenich

Take some time today to meditate on our Blessed Mother and how she continues to guide us, her children. She is such a caring mother who brings us closer to her Son every day. Trust in her, and she will never disappoint you!
Hannah

"A Thief Who Stole Heaven"

"The good thief also teaches us humility and confidence.  A whole life of crimes, a whole life of sin: a few minutes before dying, one word of humility and confidence, and he is saved.

"In the same way as the prodigal son recognized his guilt, the good thief, speaking to his companion, cries, 'For us, this is justice; we have received what we deserve.'  Then he looks deep into the eyes of Jesus and reads there who He is: the gentle Savior.

"'Lord, remember me when You shall come into Your kingdom.'

"And the ineffable answer is 'Amen, I say to you, this day you shall be with me in Paradise.'  For you, no Hell, not a second of Purgatory.  The confident look you gave me, this meeting of our eyes, in my mercy and in your faith, has purified you in an instant and rendered us inseparable.  Now you are completely pure and already in Heaven.

"A whole life of sin, one humble and confident look toward the Crucified, and there was the first canonized saint, and canonized by Jesus Himself!  A thief who stole Heaven!"

- Father Jean C. J. d'Elbée, I Believe in Love

The book this is taken from (hopefully without infringing on the copyright...if I am I didn't realize it and apologize) is all about the spirituality of St. Thérèse, and I would highly recommend it!  It really makes one look at the spiritual life in a whole new way.

Never forget that you are loved by God!

"I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest, and most precious thing in all thinking." 

    - George MacDonald

"...few words and many deeds..."

"Remember that the Christian life is one of action; not of speech and daydream.  Let there be few words and many deeds, and let them be done well."
 - St. Vincent Pallotti

I was going to write something profound to go along with it, but the tornado sirens just went off so I should go downstairs.  God bless you and have a good day!