Birthday of St Paul of the Cross
Founder of the Passionists

Let everything in creation
draw you to God.
Refresh your mind
with some innocent
recreation
and needful rest,
if it were only to saunter
through the garden
or the fields,
listening to the sermon
preached by the flowers,
the trees,
the meadows,
the sun,
the sky,
and the whole universe.
You will find
that they exhort you
to love
and praise God;
that they excite you
to extol the greatness
of the Sovereign Architect
Who has given them
their being.

-St Paul of the Cross