December The Twelfth

ALMIGHTY God, who changest not amid the strifes of the world, grant us Thy peace; in all its changefulness be Thou our stay; deliver us from its vanities, and enable us to find our chief good in Thee. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and evil-speaking be put away from us; may we be kind-hearted, and learn to forgive one another, even as Thou hast forgiven us; through Jesus Christ our Lord - Amen.

-- WILLIAM ANGUS KNIGHT
Kindness of Maude Cullen, Life magazine archive, 1951 photo by W. Eugene Smith

August The Nineteenth

O LORD, grant to us so to love Thee with all our heart, with all our mind, and all our soul, and our neighbor for Thy sake, that the grace of charity and brotherly love may dwell in us, and all envy, harshness, and ill-will may die in us; and all our hearts with feelings of love, kindness and compassion, so that, by constantly rejoicing in the happiness and good success of others, by sympathizing with them in their sorrows, and putting away all harsh judgments and envious thoughts, we may follow Thee, who art Thyself the true and perfect Love - Amen.

-- TREASURY OF DEVOTION

Maude Callen clinic, South Carolina, 1951; photograph by W. Eugene Smith; Life magazine archive.