Longing - Czesław Miłosz

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

source: sunsetoned

St. Therese of Lisieux as St. Joan of Arc

Saint Francis of Assisi Preaching to the Animals Jan Siberechts ⏤17th. century

Joé Descomps-Cormier Brooch depicting St. Joan of Arc

Enamel and gold, ca. 1900

the soul entrusting her heart to the care of godliness and penitence

illustration for the allegorical poem "le mortifiement de vaine plaisance" by rené d'anjou, france, c. 1470

source: Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 144, fol. 50v

(Image: St. Francis Preaching to the Birds, Giotto. 1297-99)

Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Amen.

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry written c. October 1936, featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. 2

“In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our  trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, which He lavished upon  us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery  of His will, according to His purpose, which He set forth in Christ as a  plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in Him, things in  heaven and things on earth.”

~Ephesians 1:7-10

(Art via mysteriesofthejesusprayer.com)