Saint Bonaventure

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St Bonaventura Receiving the Host from the Hands of an Angel, by Francisco de Herrera the Elder, 1628

“If you learn everything except Christ, you learn nothing.
If you learn nothing except Christ, you learn everything.”

St. Bonaventure

Saint Kateri Tekakwitha

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St. Kateri Tekakwitha, by Father Claude Chauchetière, S.J., 1696

“I am not my own; I have given myself to Jesus. He must be my only love.”

Lily of the Mohawks – St. Kateri Tekakwitha

2 Corinthians 1:2-7

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The Twin Birches, by Willard L. Metcalf, 1908

“All who would win joy must share it;
happiness was born a twin.”
Lord Byron


Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

2 Corinthians 1:2-7