“Everything considered holy in the Catholic Church is veiled:
the Tabernacle, the Chalice the Mystery of Faith, the beauty of a woman…

The veil is meant to be an external sign of a woman's interior desire to humble herself before God, truly present in the Blessed Sacrament. As women, we are symbols of the Church - the Bride of Christ – and, as a priest once said, "the veil is meant to be a visible reminder of the perfect submission of the Church to the loving rule of Christ."

"The veil is a visual sermon ... a public proclamation before the Lord that He IS the Lord and that we love Him and that we are ready to obey him. It's a totally counter-cultural statement proclaiming obedience in the midst of a culture that is totally permeated with this attitude of – 'I will not serve.'"

Happy Fathers day!

Mom win.

🐣 Returning Soldier Effect:

When reminded of their mortality, participants manifested a stronger desire for children, were less intentioned to postpone parenting, and were also less ready to prioritize their professional career over having children.

https://iris.unisr.it/handle/20.500.11768/142756

Pls pray for Ella 12yr old in critical care after taking an overdose as a result of severe bullying at school. Please share 🙏🏼

“Whoever keeps the whole Law but falls short in one particular has become guilty in respect to all of it” (Jas 2:10). What is this one law if not true love, perfect charity? It is of this that Saint Paul also said:  “For the whole Law is fulfilled in one statement, namely: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself'” (Gal 5:14)...

For true charity is patient in adversity and moderate in prosperity; strong in painful suffering, joyful in good works; completely safe in temptation. It is very gentle among genuine brothers, very patient among the false. It is innocent in the midst of snares, groans in the midst evildoing, and breathes naturally in the truth.

It is chaste in the married woman, Susannah, in the widow, Anna, in the virgin, Mary (Dn 13:1f.; Lk 2:36). It is humble in Peter's obedience and free in Paul's arguments. It is human in the witness of Christians, divine in the forgiveness of Christ. For true charity, beloved brethren, is the soul of the whole of Scripture, the strength of prophecy, the structure of knowledge, the fruit of faith, the wealth of the poor, the life of the dying. So keep it faithfully; cherish it with all your heart and all the strength of your soul (cf Mk 12:30).

- Saint Caesarius of Arles

Daddy comes home from the war. A scene at a London railway station when little Margaret Jenkins, of Grays, Essex, ran to give her father an affectionate welcome on his return to London on his first leave from France.😀

Credit & photo by Evening Post, 16 May 1940