Belle Fleur

[CyrilSebastian]

            {A} Tulipa Happy Generation 
            {B} Happy Generation is a tulip. The flowers are white flushed with gold at the base with narrow, pinkish-red flames. 
            {C} God is happiness by His Essence. 
               
                 

[Shin]

 

[CyrilSebastian]

                      {A} Sanbucus nigra Urban Lace   
                      {B} Common name is Black elder. A deciduous shrub.   
                      {C} Pope Urban I was Pope from 222 to May 23, 230.
         

[Shin]

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{A} Yarrow, or milfoil
{B} "A herbaceous, perennial plant that produces one to several stems that can grow up to 3 1/4 ft in height, and has a spreading rhizomatous growth. The leaves are two to eight inches long, almost feathery, and arranged spirally on the stems." It has clusters of miniature flowers. Of ancient use in herbal medicine due to its great efficacy in many areas. Useful for "wounds, fevers, circulation, digestion" and further. Like many herbs not for pregnant women.
{C} St. Gall, Abbot's feast will often have these flowers blooming upon it. The many tiny flowers of yarrow speak of its many good uses, and make one think of the many virtues God gave St. Gall.

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Of St. Gall it is said, "He only left his cell to preach, and instruct chiefly the wildest and most abandoned among the inhabitants in the mountainous parts of the country: and returning continually to his hermitage, he there often spent whole nights and days in holy prayer and contemplation, in which he usually poured forth his soul before God with floods of tears."

[Shin]

Black elder's flowers resemble yarrow! 

[CyrilSebastian]

            {A} Star of Nature   
            {B} These star shaped flowers make excellent additions to rock gardens.   
            {C} Hail thou star of ocean Portal of the sky 
                  Ever virgin Mother Of the Lord Most High.

[CyrilSebastian]

           {A} Baby Love Rose 
           {B} Baby Love is a bushy, upright rose with cupped, single, bright yellow flowers.   
           {C} Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.   
   
             

[CyrilSebastian]

                   {A} Blessings Rose   
                   {B} Blessings has salmon-pink roses.   
                   {C} The custom of giving blessings goes back to the very earliest times.   
       
                     

[CyrilSebastian]

              {A} Echinacea purpurea Virgin   
              {B} Virgin is a white coneflower.   
              {C} The Feast of the Assumption is the principal feast of the Blessed Virgin.

[Shin]

{A} Virgin's Bower
{B} A woody vine, producing a variety of fragrant and unusual looking white flowers.
{C} The flowers often bloom around this time of year, on the Feast of the Assumption

A quote for today's feast:

'We read in the holy Canticles, that at the Assumption of the Virgin, the angels three times asked her name: "Who is she that goeth up by the desert as a pillar of smoke?" "Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising?" And in another: "Who is this that cometh up from the desert, flowing with delights?" Richard of St. Laurence inquires why the angels so often asked the name of this queen, and answers: The sound of the name of Mary was so sweet to the angels, and they repeated the question that they might hear it repeated also.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[CyrilSebastian]

                      {A} Magnolia Felix Jury   
                      {B} A magnolia tree with deep pink, waterlily-shaped flowers with broad petals.     
                      {C} Felix II has the distinction of being not only a Pope, but the great-grandfather of another Pope, Gregory I.   
                            Felix had been married, but his wife had died before he became a priest.   
   
                             

[CyrilSebastian]

                   {A} Iris Urban Cowboy   
                   {B} A Standard Dwarf Bearded Iris that blooms in bright yellow.   
                   {C} On November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II ordered the first Crusade.

[CyrilSebastian]

                  {A} Delphinium Father Thames   
                  {B} A delphinium with gentian blue flowers flushed violet rose.     
                  {C} Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.     
   
                   

[CyrilSebastian]

                   {A}  Saxifraga Your Faith   
                   {B}  A perennial herb with showy pentamerous flowers.   
                   {C} Among those who have faith, does one have it more than another?   
         
                     

[CyrilSebastian]

                   {A} Iris Friday Blues   
                   {B} A Border Bearded Iris with light blue blooms.     
                   {C} On Tuesday and Friday meditate on the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary.

[CyrilSebastian]

                 {A} Sempervivum Lilac Time   
                 {B} An evergreen perennial made up of rosettes of bluish-silver-green leaves, tipped with red,   
                       that turn a lilac shade when exposed to the summer sun.   
                 {C} When the Baptism of the Lord is celebrated, the Ordinary Time of the liturgical year begins.