Sarah

“A family which sings together, plays together, and prays together usually stays together.”
― Maria Augusta Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers: The Classic Memoir of a Musical Family

“Oh God, we cry unto Thee, In the Name of Jesus, Through the Blood of Jesus, Through the most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Most wonderfully Thou canst help us. Holy God, Holy, strong God, Holy, immortal God, Have mercy on us!”
― Maria Augusta von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

“My Dear Lord, please help me. Place me in the Center of Your Perfect Will.
Adoro te devote, latens Deitas.
Bread of Life by bread concealed, speaking heart to heart.
Tibi se cor meum totum subjicit.
Let Your presence draw me in here my senses fail.
Visus cactus, gustus in te falliti.
This is truth enough for me.
Peto quod petivit latro paenitens.
Seeing You upon the Cross, flesh and blood, I find.
Plagas, sicut Thomas, non intueor.
I see not but name You still God and Prince of Life.
O memoriale mortis Domini.
How I thirst to meet Your gaze gloriously revealed. After life's obscurity, let me wake to see. Beauty shining from Your Face for eternity.
Amen.”
― Gina Marinello-Sweeney, I Thirst

“She had often said she wanted to do something splendid, no matter how hard; and now she had her wish,--for what could be more beautiful than to devote her life to father and mother, trying to make home as happy to them as they had to her?”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women / Stage 3