Quote of the Week: St Therese of Lisieux
March 17, 2009
Little Birds
My sister, you want to know
What the Infant Jesus desires.
Ah well! I will tell you tonight
How you will make Him smile.
Catch some charming birds
Let them fly around in the stable.
They are the image of children
Who cherish the Adorable Word.
To their sweet songs,
Their chirping,
His childish Face radiates.
Pray for them,
For one day in Heaven,
They will form your crown.
St Therese of Lisieux, “The Divine Little Beggar of Christmas,” pgs. 223 – 246 in The Plays of St Therese of Lisieux. trans. Susan Conray and David J. Dwyer (Washington, DC: ICS Press, 2008), 232-3.
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NOTHING is so beautiful as spring—
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing