As Long as I Live...

Prayer: Gerard van Honthorst, King David Playing the Harp

Not Without Praising

With Singing Lips

Painting: Thomas Cooper Gotch, Alleluia; in US public domain due to age PD-1923

Always!

Spring Praise

Painting: Theodoor Verstraete, Spring in Schoore, in US public domain due to age

Because He Has Made a Dandelion

'We do not have to travel the world over 

to praise the wonders of His creation.  

We can grow exultant over one wildflower. 

We can find reason to praise Him 

every day of our life because 

He has made a dandelion.'  

Mother Mary Francis PCC, 'Walls Around the World,' Poor Clares, Roswell NM

Photo © N Shuman

The More a Soul Praises

Truly Free

Not Without Astonishment

'Even the tiniest insect cannot be considered attentively 

without astonishment and without praising the Creator.'

St. Augustine

Painting: Jan van Kessel

Wake Up the Universe!

'The whole world is asleep, and God, so full of goodness, 

so great, so worthy of all praise - no one is thinking of Him! 

See, nature praises Him, 

and man ... who ought to praise Him, sleeps!  

Let us go and wake up the universe... and sing His praises.'

Blessed Mariam Baourdy

Painting: Farquharson Joseph, Southland Hills, in US public domain due to age

For Distant Bells that Tumble on the Wind

'For songbird answering song on topmost bough;
for myriad lark that carol up the sky;
for that low fluttering on the summer night;
for distant bells that tumble on the wind;
for great ground organ notes that rise and fall,
entwined with earthly voices tuned to heaven,
and bear our hearts above the high-arched roof.
For Thy great voice that dominates the whole,
and shakes the heavens, and silences the earth...
We thank Thee, Lord!'

(from Fervorinos from the Lips of the Master, compiled by a Religious, Pelligrini, Australia, 1940, pp. 431-432)



Painting: Walter Moras

Wake up the Universe!

'The whole world is asleep,
and God so full of goodness,
so great,
so worthy of all praise ...
no one is thinking of Him!
See, nature praises Him!
And man.. who
ought to praise Him, sleeps!
Let us go,
let us go and
wake up the universe..
and sing His praises!'

Blessed Mariam Baouardy

photo © Nancy Shuman