Painting by Jerry Barrett

“ Oh, my God, You are here to draw me to Your secret hiding place.”
(Taken from Divine Intimacy)
                                                                                                                                      

Painting by William Holman Hunt

"My heart has been
captivated
by His love,
and earthly things
no longer
satisfy it."

                                                         (Taken in part from ' Divine Intimacy')

Faith and Love...

She waits...

Painting by John George Brown

"Ah! 
 It is indeed a great love,
 to love You
 without feeling
 the sweetness
 of Your love."

St. Therese of Lisieux, Divine Intimacy

Stay with me...

Painting by William Holman Hunt

"Hidden in the obscurity of faith,

 God draws near our soul,

 makes Himself our traveling companion,

 and still more,

 lives in us by grace.

...The soul who

 has found the Lord, 

even but once in this manner,

 not outside itself,

 but within itself,

 living and acting in its heart, 

cannot fail to direct to Him the cry: 

"Stay with me!"

…God remains with us; it is for us to remain with Him."

(Taken in part from 'Divine Intimacy' by Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D.)

Captivate me...

Painting by Ferdinand Max Bredt

"O, Jesus, in You alone I find my pleasure.

You are all I desire;

You alone can captivate me.

Grant, O Lord, that your image

may always be imprinted on my mind

and in my heart,

 that my interior

glance may always

 be directed toward You,

so that I may be conformed

 in everything to You,

my Master, my Model, my Way!"

Taken in part from Divine Intimacy

Draw me to Yourself, Lord...

Artist-Sir John Everett Millais

"The more we correspond to grace,

 the greater the graces

 Our Lord will grant us;

the more we press on 

toward Him,

 the more He will

 draw us to Himself,

 so, that the result of this continuous interplay of the divine assistance and our correspondence will be the sanctification of each one of us."

Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D.

Kindle the flame...

(Lady by the Fireplace by Gustav Klimt)

'The interior life is a secret hearth where a soul in contact wiht God is inflamed with His love, and precisely because it is inflamed and forged by love, it becomes a docile instrument which God can use to diffuse love into the hearts of others.  Therefore, it is very important to recall frequently this great principle: the interior life is the the soul of the apostolate.  A deep interior life will generate intense love and intimate union with God, and therefore, from it will spring a fruitful apostolate, a true sharing in Christ's work of saving souls..."
 (Taken in part from, Divine Intimacy by Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D.)

Father, grant that Your flame of love consume my own heart, that others will see that You are loving them through me!

"We shall find the strength to keep beginning again, precisely in trust...

(Painting by Augustus Leopold Egg)


"He who will persevere unto the end is not he who will never fall, but he who after every fall will humble himself and rise again, relying on the infinite strength of God."
(taken from Divine Intimacy,by Father Gabriel of st. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D.)

Father, You know me better than I know myself.  Please continue to remind me that I need You in order to be the woman that You are indeed, encouraging me to be.