The Inner Life of Mater: A watercolor by Sophie Maille RSCJ

  • Watercolor by Sophie Maille RSCJ
    Watercolor by Sophie Maille RSCJ
  • Sophie Maille RSCJ
    Sophie Maille RSCJ

I was sensitive to the calmness of Mary, her availability, signified by these hands, her look. Her ability to keep events in her heart is an invitation in everyday life to cultivate an inner space that welcomes what happens every day, in calm moments or more eventful ones. This watercolor is associated with these lines from Sirach Sirach 35, 26.

His mercy is as welcome in times of distress 
as clouds of rain during a drought.