Books Read In The Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #

Books are listed by author (or series creator),
 and not necessarily in the order read.

"My Daily Spiritual Companion"

by Marci Alborghetti

daily devotional reading for 2017

I liked the book I used last year better

"The Home Has A Heart"

by Thyra Ferre Bjorn
[non-fiction; Christian (Protestant) themes, recipes, 
anecdotes]
(May chapter only)

"Stranger Online"
by Carol Smith"

"Portrait of Lies"

by Dandi Daley Mackall
(openlibrary.org loans) 
"Tangled Web"
by Kristi Holl
"R U 4 Real?"
by Nancy Been Peacock
"Luv@First Site"
by Tess Kindig
(physical copies)

[children's fiction, Protestant (denomination(s) unspecified) "todaysgirls.com" series, (created by Terry K. Brown)]

"Home For The Holidays"

by Heather Vogel Frederick

[children's/YA fiction]

(Kindle book)

"Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U. S. Women's

Clubs, 1880-1920" 

by Anne Ruggles Gere

[nonfiction]

"Our Strange New Land
Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diary"
by Patricia Hermes
[children's fiction, historical, 1600s]

"Betsy and Tacy Go Over The Big Hill"

by Maud Hart Lovelace

[children's fiction, historical]

"True Devotion To Mary"  
by St. Louis De Montfort
translated by Fr. Frederick Faber
[Catholic spiritual classic]
appropriate for this month

"Anne of Avonlea"

by L. M. Montgomery

[fiction, historical, 1880s]

Early Morning, Before Mass

I love the early morning before the Mass on EWTN.

Briefly, this is how I spend the time from 6:00 AM until just before 8:00 AM.

The radio wakes me at 6:00, and I pray the Angelus (Regina Caeli during Easter).  Then, I reset the alarm on my radio and go back to sleep until 6:30.

During the time from 6:30 until time for Mass I:

Pray the Morning Offering and some other prayers
Give Winky some food (there is ALWAYS dry food in his dish) and change his water

Have coffee

Pray the Office of Readings and Morning Prayer in the Liturgy of The Hours

Make the bed (cat permitting!)

Read that day's page in my Daily Devotional book. (This year I'm using "My Daily Spiritual Companion", by Marci Alborghetti
Pray at least one of several chaplets I like
Read a little in my Bible
Do some housework (except on Sunday)
Spend some time on the computer (again, cat permitting!)