Divine Light. Durand, Paris
Text on back of card:

The cross on which our Savior deigned to die for us 
should always be the principal object of our adoration.

PSALTER OF THE LOVERS OF JESUS I myself am book for you! Have confidence; my death gives you life. O Marie, teach us to meditate, to taste this Book divine. Letaille

HE LOVES ME AND IS BOOK FOR ME.
As you look at me, you love me...
As you look at me you imitate me...
As you look at me you follow me.
Meditate, meditate... I will drive into solitude, and there talk to the heart (Hosea) THE MORE I SEE YOU THE MORE I LOVE YOU. Letaille

The Cross is the bridge that connects heaven and earth.

God is love itself...Letaille
In the background of this symbolic engraving is the  garden of Eden with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the serpent defeated. In the foreground is Jesus Christ holding the Cross, the Tree of Life, and offering us Himself, our true Life.

Light from The Cross,
upon Thy Christmas shine.

Nexus mysteriorum, is a Latin phrase expressing the belief that all the Mysteries are inter-related. This image shows the influence of this Church teaching developed in the first Vatican Council (1869-1870).
It is unclear whether this card was published in celebration of Easter or Christmas, because, clearly it was meant to show that the feasts are inseparable: it is the Cross of Christ that illumines the beauty of Christmas.

BEHOLD THE GOOD SHEPHERD GIVES HIS LIFE FOR HIS SHEEP.

"We adore Thee, Oh Christ, and we bless Thee. 

Because by Thy Holy Cross Thou hast redeemed the world." 

This prayer is  prayed universally in both the Church in the East and in the West.

Near her [la croix] I am safe.


V. Bouasse Lebel & fils aimé

Let us attach ourselves to her like a vine to the Tree of Salvation.
Mme. Bouasse Lebel

The measure of our love

must be to love without measure.

~St. Bernard

Dopter, Paris 370

Crucified truly for us. 

I know my sheep, and my sheep know Me.
John 10:7-16

Bénerd, Paris

The Terrible Passage
If you carry my cross during your life 
you will have it as your plank of salvation
at the moment of death.
Bouasse-Lebel, Paris  1139

FLOWERS OF CALVARY

The Cross is the gift

God made for His friends.

Cure d'Ars