Category: Inspiration

Saint Luke not only is the patron saint of artists but is thought to have been an artist himself. Pious tradition tells us that he painted the first icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the top of the Holy Family’s dinner table (and Polish tradition says that that icon is the one that came to be known as Our Lady of Czestochowa).

October Feast Days:

St Teresa of Avila is the 15th, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque is the 16th, St. Ignatius of Antioch is the 17th and St. Luke the Evangelist is the 18th.

This is an historic moment for the Catholic Church in America.

Tomorrow night, CATHOLICISM premieres on PBS stations (WTTW-11 in Chicago), the presenting TV station for the epic series by Fr. Barron and Word On Fire.

Amazing vid here from the space station. Here’s a description: A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, El Salvador, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Lake Titicaca, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line), a satellite (55sec) and the stars of our galaxy.

St. Theresa’s prayer:
Let nothing disturb,
let nothing trouble you
God alone remains.
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This is the famous passage from St. Augustine’s Confessions (Lib 1,1-2,2.5,5: CSEL 33, 1-5) in which Saint Augustine states

“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”

It is used in the Roman Office of readings for the Ninth Sunday in Ordinary time with the accompanying biblical reading of Job 28:1-28.