Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

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Semper Gaudete!: Baby Joseph Has Gone To Heaven

Semper Gaudete!: Little Things

Semper Gaudete!: Books Read in the Past Week

Books Read in the Past Week

"In His Steps"
by Charles Monroe Sheldon
(Christian [Protestant] fiction)
[free Google e-book]

"The Home Has A Heart"
by Thyra Ferre Bjorn
(non-fiction, Christian [Protestant] themes,
anecdotes, recipes)
[October chapter]

"The Bound Girl"
by Nan Denker
(teen fiction, historical)
{One of my favorites, first read
when I was in junior high school}

Little Things

Re-posted from last year
I love this quote from my Patron Saint, Therese of Lisieux, whose feast we celebrate today:
"Pick up a pin for the love of God, and you may save a soul."
How right, how wise! We may not be called to do great things,but we can do the little, everyday tasks for the love of God, and then how great, how valuable those little tasks become.
No work is menial if it is done for the love of God.

Baby Joseph Has Gone To Heaven

Read Fr. Frank Pavone's statement here.

Perhaps we can now consider Baby Joseph an unofficial Patron Saint

of the Pro-Life movement.

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

Join me and other Catholic bloggers at Sunday Snippets. Thanks to RAnn for hosting.

Semper Gaudete!: Expanding My Collection

Semper Gaudete!: "Francie Nolan" Trees

Semper Gaudete!: Books Read in the Past Week

Books Read in the Past Week

"Beany and the Beckoning Road"
by Lenora Mattingly Weber
(teen fiction)

"Children of the Series

& How They Grew

or A Century of Heroines & Heroes,

Romantic, Comic, Moral"

by Faye R. Kensinger

(nonfiction)

{I've discovered, through this book, several series

I'd like to read.  Thank God, many of them are available

online for free.}

"Francie Nolan" Trees

There are several "Francie Nolan" trees outside my window. Oh, that 
is not their official, botanical name. It is what I call them because that
is the species of tree Betty Smith used to symbolize Francie Nolan in
"A Tree Grows In Brooklyn."
Sometimes, when I look at those trees, I imagine that they are
palm trees on a tropical island. And, in fact, they are on an island.
After all, Brooklyn is, geographically, a part of Long Island.