I haven't mBlogged in a while. It's almost like Twitter except I can put pics, use 160 chars and it isn't as annoying. It's also more 1337. No one txts blogger.

Love Makes Us Beautiful

What started with this: http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4969
Lead me to look up Chiara Badano (1971-90), a laywoman of the Focolare Movement

The word laywoman jumped out at me, as did the dates.  So a quick Google search yielded:
http://focolare.org/En/sif/2000/20000323e_b.html .  An amazing story which included the purported words of St. Augustine, "love makes us beautiful".  Chiara seems to be a woman in the mold of St. Therese, the little flower.  Check out her story.  Do it.  It's a love story, and a love story of the best kind.

A quote from that story, attributed to Abbe Pierre: "Saints are not all listed in a catalogue: in all probability we come across them every day."

That led to a conversation with Rita, which turned up http://ashleyconsumedbygrace.com/index.php.

Who is saintly in your life?  Whose love makes you beautiful?  Does your love beautify others?  Yourself?


Blessings,
Isaac