Thanks, many thanks to RAnn for hosting Sunday Snippets every week on her blog. I've discovered some wonderful blogs here. How about sharing yours?
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Liturgical Day, Actual Day
My Liturgical day begins before my actual day. I get up at 4:00 in the morning and pray the Office of Readings, using the online IBreviary. I then go back to bed until 6:00. I make my Morning Offering, pray the Angelus, have a cup of coffee, and then pray Morning Prayer.
I find the IBreviary so convenient!
I find the IBreviary so convenient!
Books Read in the Past Week
Books read for the first time are marked with a #
Books are listed by author, and not necessarily in the order read.
"Love God And Do What You Please"
by St. Alphonsus Liguori
adapted by M. J. Huber
[spiritual reading]
a favorite of mine; thank God it wasn't one of the books
lost when I moved!
a favorite of mine; thank God it wasn't one of the books
lost when I moved!
"Bless Me, Father, for I Have Kids" #
by Susie Lloyd
[nonfiction, humor]
(Kindle books)
{reserved for Sunday}
"Deuteronomy"
(This post explains my Bible-reading plan.)
"Betsy and Joe"
{carried over from last week}
by Maud Hart Lovelace
[YA fiction]
by Maud Hart Lovelace
[YA fiction]
"Casebook of Successful Ideas for Advertising and Selling"
by Samm Sinclair Baker
[nonfiction]
{carried over from last week}
(I first saw this book in my high school... or was it junior high school? library.
I love the case histories in this book, and now, thanks to the Internet,
I can actually SEE some of the advertisements mentioned!)
"Go Jump In The Pool!"
by Gordon Korman
[children's fiction, "Bruno and Boots" series]
(openlibrary.org loan)
"There's A Boy In The Girls' Bathroom"
by Louis Sachar
[children's fiction]
(I've blogged in the past about how this book led me to several others.)
"The Church Ladies" #
by Lisa Samson
[Christian fiction, Protestant]
(openlibrary.org loan)
I plan to read more books by Lisa Samson. I'm
so glad I discovered her through RAnn's blog.
"Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters"
and "Seymour: An Introduction"
(I've finished the first story, and am now reading
"Seymour."
by J. D. Salinger
[fiction]
{carrying over into next week}
Friday, June 13, 2014
My Friend Tony (Yearly Repost)
How many times have people prayed some version of the prayer:
"Tony, Tony, come around.
Something's lost and must be found"?
I know St. Anthony is ALWAYS helping me find stuff.
Years ago, when I had just recently converted to Catholicism, I called
Mom at work (It was her usual break time.)
Mom said, "I can't talk right now. We're missing an important file and
we've looked all over for it."
"Okay," I said, "call me back when it turns up."
Well, within five minutes she called me. The file had been found.
"Aren't you going to thank me?" I asked.
"Thank you? What for? You're not even here."
"I know," I said, "but who do you think prayed to St. Anthony?"
More recently, I was chatting with a couple of my online friends, and
one of them was going slightly nuts because she had misplaced something, and couldn't find it anywhere. I said a prayer to St. Anthony, and then typed,
"Try looking again."
She didn't want to, but I persuaded her. And then she typed, in caps
"I FOUND IT!!!!!!"
I wasn't a bit surprised!
Does St. Anthony ALWAYS get lost articles back for me? Well, almost! One morning I couldn't find my Rosary. I looked. I prayed. To my surprise, I still did
not find it. But later that morning, I received a brand-new, beautiful Rosary from a Catholic organization. I'm almost SURE I heard St. Anthony chuckling.
BTW, the lost Rosary did turn up eventually.
Of course, there's much more to St. Anthony than just running the Lost and Found! :)
Updated in 2013 to add Fr. Anthony's very inspirational homily.
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Judge Forces 13-Year-Old Girl to Get Abortion Against Her Wishes
Judge Forces 13-Year-Old Girl to Get Abortion Against Her Wishes
I'm praying for this poor girl... and for that misguided judge.
I'm praying for this poor girl... and for that misguided judge.
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