The Greatest Woman Who Ever Lived??? NO!!!!! The Greatest Woman Who Ever Lived.... YES!!!!!

H.G. Wells once called Margaret Sanger "the greatest woman who ever lived."  
He could not have been more WRONG!!!

The greatest woman who ever lived is also the humblest woman

who ever lived... the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose birth we celebrate today.

Here is the Collect for today's feast.

Impart to your servants, we pray, O Lord,

the gift of heavenly grace,

that the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin

may bring deeper peace

for those for whom the birth of her Son

was the dawning of salvation.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever.

– Amen.

Not My Usual Sunday

Those of you who are familiar with this blog know how much I love Sunday.  You know that I usher it in on Saturday evening,

with a candle (battery-operated), a prayer adapted from the Jewish Sabbath, the hymn "On This Day, The First Of Days,"

a whispered "Shabbat shalom," and Evening Prayer I.

That's not what happened this week.  I was feeling too sick...

the worst being a sore throat.

Long story short, I didn't have my usual Sunday, so the Sunday Books segment will not appear on this week's book list.

I hope to be able to have my customary Sunday next week.  I felt really deprived today.

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

It's time to hop over to RAnn's blog for Sunday Snippets!  I've found some wonderful blogs thanks to RAnn.  How about sharing yours?

Semper Gaudete! : A Painting I Love

Semper Gaudete! : Fulton Sheen sainthood effort halted

Semper Gaudete! : Update on Bishop Sheen

Semper Gaudete! : A Post a Day

Semper Gaudete! : Finally Blogging About This

Semper Gaudete! : I'm Looking Forward to Reading This!

Semper Gaudete! : This Week's Fan Fiction

Semper Gaudete! : Books Read in the Past Week

Books Read in the Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #

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

"Between Heaven and Mirth"#

by James Martin, SJ

[non-fiction]

(Kindle book)

"A Right to Be Merry" #
by Mother Mary Francis, P. C. C
[nonfiction]
"Travelers Along the Way"
by Fr. Benedict Groeschel
[collective biography]
"Kitty from the Start"
"Kitty in the Middle"
(physical copies)
Kitty in the Summer"
(openlibrary.org loan)
by Judy Delton
[children's fiction]
(fast reads)

"The Story of a Soul"

by St. Therese of Lisieux

{Sunday books}

Bible books read this week:

"Isaiah"
"The Gospel According to John"
"The Gospel According to Matthew"

"Anne's House of Dreams"
{carried over from last week}
"Anne of Ingleside"
{carrying over into next week}

by L. M. Montgomery

[fiction]

"Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U. S. Women's

Clubs, 1880-1920" #

by Anne Ruggles Gere

{carrying over into next week}

"grace notes"
"love, annie"
{carrying over into next week}

by Dandi Daley Mackall

[children's fiction, Christian (Protestant, no denomination specified), "Blog On" series]
(Google books, replacing the physical copies lost when I moved)
It seems rather appropriate to read books about blogging online! :)


"A Time for Watching"
by Gunilla Norris
[children's fiction]

This Week's Fan Fiction

Friends at Last

an AU Another World story

Unsuited To Each Other
Chapter 2 is now up

I'm Looking Forward to Reading This!

I've just pre-ordered this book.

Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Pamela Smith Hill, which will be published in late November.

It should be interesting, not to say intriguing, to see the differences, as well as the similarities, between the reality and the fiction.

Update on Bishop Sheen

Here is some more information regarding the suspension of

Bishop Sheen's Cause.