Newborn with disability presented to Pope at WYD offertory :: EWTN News

Newborn with disability presented to Pope at WYD offertory :: EWTN News

What an eloquent pro-life message!

New Image in Rosary Art Collection

Here is the newest image in my Rosary Art Collection.

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

Come one, come all to Sunday Snippets!  Thanks to RAnn for hosting.  I've discovered some wonderful blogs here.

Semper Gaudete!: Mural added to Rosary Art Collection

Semper Gaudete!: Weekday Prayer Schedule

Semper Gaudete!: Wonderful Homily from Fr. Anthony

Semper Gaudete!: Raped 11-Year-Old Girl From Chile Courageously Rejects Abortion

Semper Gaudete!: Books Read in the Past Week

Books Read in the Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #

"The Little Flowers of St. Francis"

translated by Raphael Brown

[non-fiction, Catholic] 

{Sunday book}

"My Strange Friend"

"Ethelred Preston or

The Adventures of a Newcomer"  #

by Fr. Francis J. Finn, S.J.

[children's fiction, Catholic]

(online book)

{Sunday book}

"Magazines in the Twentieth Century"

by Theodore Peterson

[nonfiction]

(second edition)

{long-term reading}

"Davita's Harp"

{carried over from last week}

"The Chosen"
{carrying over into next week}

{openlibrary.org loan}

by Chaim Potok

(fiction,  Jewish)

"Try Giving Yourself Away"
by David Dunn
[non-fiction, third edition]

one of my favorite books.

I love the little anecdotes.

Raped 11-Year-Old Girl From Chile Courageously Rejects Abortion

Raped 11-Year-Old Girl From Chile Courageously Rejects Abortion

God bless this girl... a true hero! 

Wonderful Homily from Fr. Anthony

I just HAVE to share this encouraging, thought-provoking homily from Fr. Anthony.  And LOL on the anecdote near the end!

Weekday Prayer Schedule

I've decided to share my current weekday prayer schedule.  I mught make some changes at a future date.

5:00 AM
 Rise
Morning Offering and Other Prayers
brief Bible reading (just a few verses, usually
from one of the Psalms)
coffee
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5:45 AM
Office of Readings and Morning Prayer
(Matins and Lauds)
Angelus
(always prayed for the protection of the unborn.)
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6:30 AM
Bible reading
 (with 2nd cup of coffee and little breakfast
 [one slice of bread or half a roll with margarine,
(sometimes sweet, sometimes salted)
 or half a bagel with a schmear.] )
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8:00 AM
Mass on EWTN
(the high point of my day!)
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12:00 PM
Angelus
Daytime Prayer (Sext)
OR Rosary
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3:00 PM
Daytime Prayer  (None)
OR Rosary
Chaplet of Mercy
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6:00 PM
Angelus
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6:30 PM
Evening Prayer
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10:15 PM
Prayers
Bible Reading
 (taken from one of the Gospels)
Night Prayer
SLEEP!
 (all times are approximate, except for the Mass on EWTN)