Holy Card Heaven: August 2015

Monday, August 31, 2015

Holy Heart of Mary,
Furnace of the hearts of love,
Pray for us.

Sunday, August 30, 2015

Saturday, August 29, 2015

I will sail in peace under the guard of Mary.

Vaurs, Paris

Friday, August 28, 2015

St. Augustine: Feast Day, August 28

St. Augustine, 354-430
Doctor of Grace

2 favorite quotations:

"If you are the Body of Christ and his members, your divine mystery is set on the table of the Lord; you receive your own mystery... Be what you see and receive what you are."
St. Augustine

"And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here."
St. Augustine

Love Her as She Loves Us
Bouasse Lebel 684

Thursday, August 27, 2015

You Rescue the Orphan

vers 1850, "recueillez l'orphelin"

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Holy Heart of Mary

Mater Amabilis

Tony

Mother of Mercy, we turn to you in this valley of tears.

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Amiable heart of my mother,

you are the Heaven I wish to inhabit forever.

The Treasures of the Holy Heart of Mary.

Bouasse Lebel 108

Monday, August 24, 2015

Heart of Mary, Refuge of Sinners,

pray for us

Heart most similar to Jesus,

Pray for us.

Bouasse Lebel, 787B

Sunday, August 23, 2015

The Lily Flourishes Near to the Cross
Happy sheep, for you the divine shepherdess
will remove the thorns of the road.

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Feast of the Queenship of Mary August 22

Coronation
of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Dopter

from Small album: Queen of Heaven and Earth

Love me, serve me. I will lead you to happiness.

Dopter

Friday, August 21, 2015

Lessons of Mary

Turgis

Sweet Mary, Mother dear, pray for us.

Thursday, August 20, 2015

St. Bernard of Clarvaux: August 20

Bernard of Clairvaux: “Saviour” Is His Name From Everlasting; He Has It Of His Own Proper Nature To Save ~ ENLARGING THE HEART

St. Bernard of Clairvaux
The Mellifluous Doctor

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Link to The Memorare

"The soul must grow and expand, so as to be capable of God. And its largeness is its love, as the Apostle says, 'Widen yourselves in love' (2 Cor 6:13). It grows and extends spiritually, not in substance, but in virtue. The greatness of each soul is judged by the measure of love that it has: he who has great love is great, he who has little love is little, while he who has no love at all is nothing.” ~ Bernard of Clairvaux ~

Let us Pray to Mary to Watch Over Us

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Life of Union With Mary

I will take no action except in union with Mary.

Wentzel

You are our Mother..

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Prayer to Mary reassures, consoles.

Monday, August 17, 2015

Show yourself our mother.

Sunday, August 16, 2015

Vivifying Source!

My heart is a fountain of living water
where my servants come to find strength.

Bouasse Lebel 1085

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Feast of the Assumption, August 15

The Assumption

Original painting in gouache

on paper lace

According Tradition, after the falling asleep of the Virgin Mother, she was buried, but her body did not suffer corruption. When the tomb was opened, it was empty, filled with flowers and the fragrance of holiness.

ALONE WITH GOD

At the foot of the Cross in the livery of Mary.

O, the sweet retreat!

Bouasse Lebel 1761

Friday, August 14, 2015

Vigil of the Feast of the Assumption

Freed from the weight of the body,
the Virgin is carried to Heaven.

With jubilation the Heavens receive her,
and the angels sing.

Chas. Van de Vyvere , Bruge, Belgium

Treasures of the Heart of Mary

Consider the beauties of Mary's heart,

and see if you will ever be able to refuse her your love.

Aubry

Thursday, August 13, 2015

O, my Mother, guard innocence.

Bouasse Lebel

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

O, kind Mother, the contrite sinner
finds in you his anchor of salvation.
Saintin

Monday, August 10, 2015

Treasury of Tenderness
that always overflows and never runs dry.
Bouasse Jeune 126

Sunday, August 9, 2015

Your Heart, O Holy Mother, will always favor the repentant sinner.

Saintin

Saturday, August 8, 2015

I have but my heart.

Take it, O, Mary, with all its weaknesses

and fill it with grace for eternal life.

Bouasse Lebel, Paris
Pl. 1233

Friday, August 7, 2015

Sweet Heart of Mary

First Friday

Learn from me for I am gentle and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Matthew 11:29
Serz

small album~
Sacred Heart of Jesus

Thursday, August 6, 2015

Feast of the Transfiguration, August 6

"Listen to Him."

"It is good to be here."

Chas. Van de Vyvere , Brugge, Belgium

She is your mother. Turn to her in all your needs.

Bouasse Lebel, Paris 29 rue St. Sulpice Pl. 875

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Vigil of the Feast of the Transfiguration

They saw Moses and Elijah speaking with Jesus.

Felix, Paris

She is my refuge. Oh, my Mother, receive me into your arms.

Bouasse Lebel

Feast of St. Mary Major, August 5

Salus Populi Romani
Salvation of the Roman People
patterned from Hodigitria icon attributed to St. Luke
Venerated in the Church of St. Mary Major in Rome
Feast Day August 5

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

THE GOOD ACTIONS OF A CHILD OF MARY

form a crown most precious

FOR THE HEART OF THIS GOOD MOTHER

Bouasse Lebel 1288

Monday, August 3, 2015

FLOWERS OF THE EARTH

I breathed the fragrance of their virtue, and drew them to myself to form the heart of my Mother.

Bouasse Lebel 103

I see and retrace the virtues of Mary.

Vve. Bouasse Lebel

Sunday, August 2, 2015

Feast of Mary Queen of Angels, August 2

Queen of Angels

The angels contemplate her beauty

and obey her in all things.

INVOCATION

Mary, make us worthy to be called your children.

Dopter, Paris

Saturday, August 1, 2015

THE MOST HIGH HAS SANCTIFIED HIS TABERNACLE~ Ps. 45

She is a garden enclosed and a fountain sealed. ~ Song of Songs

Open to me your Immaculate Heart, O Mary. I have chosen it as home.

Souvenir of December 8, 1854

AUGUST: Devotion The Heart of Mary

Feasts and Memorials in August:

1. St. Alfonsus Liguri (M) August 1

2. Our Lady Queen of Angels (F) August 2

4. St. John Vianney (Cure d'Ars) (M) August 4
5. Dedication of St. Mary Major (M) August 5

6. Transfiguration of Christ: (F) August 6

8. St. Dominic (M) August 8

15. Dormition / Asumption of Virgin Mary (F) Aug. 15 (Ob)

20. St. Bernard of Clairvaux: (M) August 20

22. Queenship of Mary (M) August 22

28. St. Augustine (M) August 28

WELCOME TO HOLY CARD HEAVEN

One of our favorite holy cards says simply, "Heaven is the home of loving souls." In a way, an album of holy cards is like a little heaven; the truth that inspired the cards greets us anew with each tender image, and we feel at home. Little by little I hope to bring together a collection of this gentle faith art for the delight and comfort of any loving soul who happens by.

Ethereal messengers of God's Love and Light, the small engravings that gather here fly in day by day. Little paper shrines that shelter the sacred, they are gathered here in the hope of sharing their beauty and meaning with another generation. To those who love them, they have much to give; like time spent in a restful garden, they are a feast for the eyes and a feast for the soul.

This gentle art can be used today to enter safely into the inner landscape allowing its imagery to guide the soul. Visual poetry employing symbol and metaphor as carriers of meaning, the path to which they invite us is always one in which God's own Love leads the way.

You can click on an image to enlarge it and see the artist's loving attention to detail. It is especially meaningful to be able to see the faces at a higher resolution. In many of the images, the sweetness of expression is at once joyful and serious, and, for a brief moment, we seem to draw close to the Presence of pure goodness, pure happiness.

The blessing I ask for any who come this way is again taken from a favorite holy card: "May a tender Friendship surround you always, and may all your days be a smile of heaven."
Fr. François Fénelon

Our favorite holy card illustrates the hope we hold as Christians that the door to heaven will be opened to the soul refined by love. It is the refinement of the soul by divine love that the art of the holy cards helps us to contemplate. The card has an engaving of the dove in flight into the mystery of Trinitarian love. The Uncreated Light overlaid by the symbol for the Holy Trinity is at the heart of the card. The writings of the early fathers, as well as those of the the Carmelite saints and Christian mystics throughout the ages - both in the Church in the east and the west - help us to approach the mystery of Trinitarian love not only as the theological underpinning of Christian belief but also as the action of the Spirit of Love in and through which we live and move and have our being.

About the Cards in this Collection

While some are from Italy, Germany, the Netherlands or other parts of Europe, Paris was perhaps the main place of publication. Dates are seldom available but most are from the mid 1800's to the close of that century. The depiction of persons is Eurocentric, but the symbols in the early holy cards are universal and inclusive: the image of the Heart as symbol for the incarnation of divine love, the image of the small bird as a symbol for the human soul eager but fragile and in constant need of God's love and care, the Living Water, the garden enclosed, the door that opens into Light... through visual poetry, the early holy cards continue to speak a language that reaches across the barriers of time and space and can be received by everyone.

Scheduling of the Cards and the Small Albums

Holy Card Heaven enters its seventh year on the first Sunday in Advent, 2015. Day by day the cards will continue to be moved into the new church year depending for their placement on the dates of the movable feasts and seasons. This way no cards need get lost in the distant past, new cards can be added, and we can appreciate the collection a little differently with each passing year.
Small Albums, each with a different topic, will change from month to month and will be linked in the top right column.