Hope. promise. love. companionship.

Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré

(Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré / St. Anne Basilica Quebec, Canada)

He stood there in despair. lost.

The church bells cleansed his mind ….

The old lady smiled at him …

The Golden doors opened and soothing music flowed in …

Was it a dream ?

A Pilgrim's Prayer

He stood there with his hands over the flame. He was doubtful.
He was not feeling the heat. There was no place to return.
There was nothing to go back to. He prayed for a friend then for
the Easter’s gift. At a souvenir shop he promised to be back with his
dreams & hope and he will.

A Pilgrim’s Prayer

Saint Anne, I have come to honor you and to call upon you in this blessed Shrine of Beaupré. Here, pilgrims have often felt some of the fruits of your goodness, power, and intercession. Like every true pilgrim, I also have favours to ask of you. I know that you will be as good to me as you have been, in the past, to thousands of others who have come to implore you in this Shrine. Saint Anne, you know the grace of which I stand most in need at the present moment, the special favour for which I have undertaken this pilgrimage. Hear my prayer. I entrust to your care, all of my material and spiritual needs. I commend my family, my country, the Church, and the whole world to you. Keep me faithful to Christ and His Church and one day, escort me into the Father’s Eternal Home.

Amen.

(To all beauty and hope in life.)
www.ssadb.qc.ca/en/priere.htm

Hope. promise. love. companionship.

Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré

(Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré / St. Anne Basilica Quebec, Canada)

He stood there in despair. lost.

The church bells cleansed his mind ….

The old lady smiled at him …

The Golden doors opened and soothing music flowed in …

Was it a dream ?

A Pilgrim's Prayer

He stood there with his hands over the flame. He was doubtful.
He was not feeling the heat. There was no place to return.
There was nothing to go back to. He prayed for a friend then for
the Easter’s gift. At a souvenir shop he promised to be back with his
dreams & hope and he will.

A Pilgrim’s Prayer

Saint Anne, I have come to honor you and to call upon you in this blessed Shrine of Beaupré. Here, pilgrims have often felt some of the fruits of your goodness, power, and intercession. Like every true pilgrim, I also have favours to ask of you. I know that you will be as good to me as you have been, in the past, to thousands of others who have come to implore you in this Shrine. Saint Anne, you know the grace of which I stand most in need at the present moment, the special favour for which I have undertaken this pilgrimage. Hear my prayer. I entrust to your care, all of my material and spiritual needs. I commend my family, my country, the Church, and the whole world to you. Keep me faithful to Christ and His Church and one day, escort me into the Father’s Eternal Home.

Amen.

(To all beauty and hope in life.)
www.ssadb.qc.ca/en/priere.htm

From the movie The Holiday

Say a man and a woman both need something to sleep in and both go to the same men’s pajama department. The man says to the salesman Ted, I just need bottoms, and the woman says, I just need a top. They look at each other and that’s the meet-cute.

So that is an example of a meet cute.

😉

the boy with a new kite

At times life tugs at you with so much of joy
that you run like wild behind it..
excited and out of control..
With flame on your cheeks and innocent madness in your eyes..
Like a child flying a new kite..

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(And right now I feel like the child with new kite)

Dedicated to EG.