Painting Added to Rosary Art Collection

I've just added a new painting to my Rosary Art Collection.

Books Read In The Past Week

 Books read for the first time are marked with  a #

Books, (except Sunday books) are grouped by author, and not necessarily in the order read.


Sunday books 

"In A Great Tradition
Tribute to Dame Laurentia McLachlan,
Abbess of Stanbrook" #
by The Benedictines of Stanbrook
( Rumer Godden wrote in "In This House of Brede": 
"All of the characters
in this book are imaginary, but many of the episodes
are based on fact; some are taken from the life and
sayings of Dame Laurentia McLachlan and Sister Mary
Ann McArdle of Stanbrook Abbey.")

"Lisbeth: the Story of a First Communion" #
by Mary Theresa Waggaman
[fiction]
(free online book)

Weekday Books

"Donna Parker

A Spring To Remember"
(physical copy)
"Donna Parker In Hollywood"
(openlibrary.org loan)
"Donna Parker
Mystery at Arawak"
(physical copy)
by Marcia Martin

[children's/young teens' fiction]

"Phoebe Snow"
"Stand Up, Lucy!"
[children's fiction, historical]
by Elizabeth Hall

"A Place of My Own"
"A Pocket in my Heart"
by Marcia Hoehne
(children's fiction, Christian, [Protestant], series )

"The Tale of Peter Rabbit"
"The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin"
by Beatrix Potter
[picture books]
(Beatrix Potter, the Complete Tales,
Kindle book)

"Bird by Bird:
some instructions on writing and life" #
by Anne Lamott
[non-fiction]
(openlibrary.org loan)
good, but I could do without the
occasional bad language
{carrying over into next week}

"The Quilt" #
by T. Davis Bunn
[fiction, Christian (Protestant) ]
{carrying over into next week}

"The Home Has A Heart"

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

A Book for Weekdays AND Sundays
"The Imitation of Christ"
by Thomas A Kempis
[Kindle book]

This Week's Fan Fiction

Unsuited To Each Other

Chapter 5 is now up.

The Last Letter
Chapter 2 is now up.

23rd Precinct
Chapters 32 and 33 edited;
Chapter 34 added.

"Follow Your Heart"
an AU, multi-viewpoint Another World story

Waiting. [Old post, re-titled]

Waiting

This started out as a meditation, but turned into a story.

Writing Fan Fiction on Good Friday

I've just faced a rather ironic dilemma.   After weeks of struggling to get some new fan fiction
written, an idea for a new chapter came to me.  I had a decision to make, and I can only pray that
it was the right one.
Please bear in mind that I am a Catholic, and a writer.  I am a writer, and a Catholic.  I believe that
writing is a gift God has given to me.
So.... should I use the gift today?  In order to answer that, I needed to ask myself whether I would
write fan fiction on Sunday.  I decided that the answer is yes, especially if I've been struggling to
get a new chapter written.
The chapter in question has now been written, and posted.  Written, because I didn't want to lose it.
Posted, because to wait would have been to give the false impression that I waited until tomorrow
to write it.
 

Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights?

[Old post, slightly modified, partly due to the date of Passover this year]

Tomorrow night, in countless Jewish homes, at countless Seders, the youngest son, or, if there was no son, the youngest daughter, (not counting babies, of course!) will ask the traditional Four Questions, beginning
"Why is this night different from all other nights?" 

(In my family, I was the one who asked those Questions.)

And now, for me, as a Jewish convert to Catholicism, these words have an even deeper meaning as a foreshadowing of the night of the Last Supper... the night on which Our Lord instituted the Eucharist.   That night was, indeed, different from all other nights.

A Post I HAD to Share

I simply MUST share this beautiful post. 

"Unless you become as little children...."