Too cute to kill

I’m firmly convinced that animals that are pretty get more play with the endangered species crowd.
Exhibit 1: the Harp Seal
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Exhibit 2: a Donkey. I guess.

Meditation for Ash Wednesday

From the life of St. Senan, Bishop (c. 488-560)

As a boy of Magh Lacha, Ireland, Senan was so precocious in his piety that once, while walking with his mother, having observed her eating berries that she had plucked along the way, he reprimanded her for snacking between meals.

from the March 2006 Magnificat.