[Christ Child and Doves]

Victorian scrap

Ask, ask, and ask again. Jesus loves to give.

Bouasse Lebel , Paril Pl. 1483

O Jesus, remain captive in my heart, captive of my love.

Bouasse Lebel, Paris Pl. 2024

Canivet and collage France 1800s

Small album ~ Mass of the Dawn

The dove appears in the cut lace

Near to Jesus one finds happiness.

Hand colored Bouasse Lebel

HE DESCENDS FROM HEAVEN, THE LITTLE CHILD

He weeps for your sins. He smiles on your tears.

Bouasse Lebel 2023

Christmas Eve

Christians together...

happy together.

Bouasse Lebel, Paris

First Friday

The Little Jesus

4th Sunday in Advent: 2015

Untitled. Psalm 42 

As the deer longs for streams of living water, so my soul longs for you, O God.

Gaudete Sunday 3rd. Sunday in Advent: 2015

"Gaudete in Domino semper" ("Rejoice in the Lord always")

Philippians 4:4-5

Oh it is beautiful, this happy day.

With happiness we await His return.

Hand embroidered on silk

Untitled: based on ~ Psalm 42 

As the deer longs for streams of water, so my soul longs for you, O God.

O, Virgin most pure

receive the homage of our hearts.

Feast of the Imaculate Conception, December 8

Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us!

Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Immaculate Conception
Bouasse Lebel 747

Vigil of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Text is different in each language:

O, Mary, obtain for us perseverance. French

Mother, suffer me to come to thee. English

Mary's children are called to be worthy. German

Bouasse Lebel, Paris  pl. 150

2nd. Sunday in Advent

I sigh for you, Lord, like the deer for the Living Water.

First Sunday in Advent: 2015

As the deer longs for the source 

of living water. So to you, Lord, I fly and I'm coming.

Benziger

Let us not attach ourselves to the strange land,

search not for sweetness except in the Light.

Untitled Hand-colored engraving.  
 Chas. Letaille

Like the bird, our souls have wings with which to fly toward heaven.

hand colored engraving

The Church is the door of Heaven

Let us Pray

Prayer is the song of the homeland which begins with the first refrains we stammer on earth.

Small album~

Prayer Light

 On the Cross let us always fix our thoughts and our love.

Solitude
 is the nourishment
of fervor.

SHE IS  MY REFUGE
O, my Mother, receive me into your arms.

ACTING LOVE 

It says nothing but it goes onward and upward....

CONTINUOUS LOVE

O Jesus, give me always for ever I give you ...

FAITHFUL LOVE 

Everything shall be for you: the flowers and the fruit...

COMPLIANT LOVE

Nothing compares to the peace of my journey...

MINDFUL LOVE 

As long as you look at me you will love me 

As long as you observe me you will imitate me 

As long as you watch me you will follow me....

HUMBLE LOVE
Oh, Lord, that I might know myself
and that I might know You.
St. Augustine

TENDER LOVE

How empty seem the delights of the world

to the soul who has once tasted the caress of his God.

 MY HOPE!

To contemplate it for one solitary hour, 

I would give the entire world.

Humility, Patience, Resignation
To maintain interior peace
it is necessary that our will be in accord with
and held firmly to the will of God.

THE ONLY SALVATION

Strength of Christians

O Cross! I adore you,

my only hope.

Hail, O Cross, my only hope.

Salvation is in the faith,

happiness in the hope.

Feast of Our Sorrowful Mother: September, 15

Holy heart, fire of pure love,

inflame us with your passion.

Exaltation of the Holy Cross: September 14

O Life Giving Cross, 

I place at your feet, my joys and my sorrows.  

Mon. Vve. Bouasse Lebel

from Small album~ 
Doves and the Cross

The Cross teaches us to pray, 

to love God as we should.

Feast of the Holy Name of Mary: September 12

Your name, O Mary, is a widespread fragrance that welcomes all hearts.

Faithfulness, Oneness, Love, Grace, Confidence, Glory, Honor

Light of Heaven

The thought of the cross changes thorns to roses,

To Mary our thoughts and our hearts.

Nativity of the Holy Virgin: Feast Day, Sept. 8

NATIVITY OF THE HOLY VIRGIN

Exaltation of the Holy Cross

The children of Mary are above all and forever

the children of the Cross.

Alcan