Pope, rabbi express pleasure over coming beatification of John Paul II :: EWTN News

Pope, rabbi express pleasure over coming beatification of John Paul II :: EWTN News

How fitting that his beatification will take place on Divine Mercy Sunday.
And can you imagine the joy Pope Benedict will have in beatifying his
predecessor... and his friend?

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Semper Gaudete!: Books Read in The Week of January 09-15 2011

Books Read in the Past Week

Week of January 09-January 15, 2011

"Chevy Krohn, Model Camper (Almost!)"
by D. Shreiber
{started last week, finished on Sunday}
(children's fiction, Jewish)

"A Place of My Own"
{read on Sunday}
"A Pocket in My Heart"
{read on Sunday}
"The Fairy Tale Friend"
{started on Sunday, finished on Monday}
"Sunflower Girl"
{read on Monday}
by Marcia Hoehne
(children's fiction, Christian, [Protestant], series )

"An Old-Fashioned Girl"
{started on Monday, finished on Saturday. I love to linger over certain books.}
By Louisa May Alcott
(children's fiction)

"What Jane Austen ATE and Charles Dickens KNEW
From Fox Hunting to Whist-the Facts of Daily Life
in 19th-Century England"
{started on Tuesday}
by Daniel Poole
(non-fiction)

"Thee, Hannah!"
{read on Saturday}
by Marguerite De Angeli
(children's fiction, historical)

"First We Have Coffee
and then we talk"
{started on Saturday}
by Margaret Jensen
(non-fiction, Christian [Protestant] )

New Zodiac Signs?????

People who believe in astrology may now have to think for a minute when asked, "What sign were your born under?"
Click
HERE for the story.
If anyone asks me what sign I was born under, I will give the same answer I've
given for years.
"Maternity Ward!"

Not only Illegal

I pray for the day when abortion will be not only illegal, but absolutely unthinkable.

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Semper Gaudete!: Books Read in The Week of January 02-08 2011

Books Read in the Past Week

"A Short History of the Honey Bee: Humans, Flowers, and Bees in the Eternal Chase for Honey"
{started week before last, finished on Monday. E-book}
by E. Readicker-Henderson (author)
and Ilona McCarty (photographer)
[non-fiction]
My next grocery order will definitely include honey in the comb.

"Longer Flight:
A Family Grows Up With Books"
{started last week, finished on Tuesday}
by Annis Duff
[non-fiction]


"More Adventures of The Great Brain"
by John D. Fitzgerald
{started on Sunday, finished on Monday}
(children's fiction, historical, humorous)

"Little Women, Part Second"
[AKA "Good Wives"]
by Louisa May Alcott
{started on Monday, finished on Friday [this one of the books I like to linger over.] }
(fiction)
I'm reading LMA's books in order of publication,
just one a week in order to stretch them out.
Also, I read "Little Women" as it was
originally published, that is, as two separate
books.

"Once Upon a Christmas Time"
by Thyra Ferre Bjorn
{read on Wednesday}
(non-fiction)

"Henner's Lydia"
{started on Friday, finished on Saturday}
"Yonie Wondernose"
{read on Saturday}
by Marguerite De Angeli
(children's fiction)

"Chevy Krohn, Model Camper (Almost!)"
by D. Shreiber
{started on Saturday}
(children's fiction, Jewish)