The image below, by Ambrosius Benson and in the public domain, shows the Franciscan St Antony with the Christ Child, to whom he had a particular devotion. It has been said that this devotion can be a model for each of us – both that we carry Jesus into every aspect of our lives, and also that we, too, are carried, that we must become childlike and ‘little’ in the arms of Christ.

May St Antony of Padua pray for us, and may God bless you this day.