This Week's Fan Fiction

Movie Night: A Nanofiction

23rd Precinct
new chapter added.

Throwback Thursday

This post is from another one of my old blogs.  It was first published here on September 25th, 2010.

AWESOME!

Sometimes I get overwhelmed, blown away, by the thought that since Our Lord instituted the Holy Eucharist, more than 2000 years ago, He has been received by more people than we could ever possibly imagine. More than that, He is present, fully, totally present, in the Blessed Sacrament in countless Tabernacles in countless Churches and Chapels all over the world right now and at every moment. AWESOME!!!! Moreover,
every day, at every Mass, the priest breaks the Consecrated Host. Every day, at every Mass, Communion is distributed to the faithful. And yet, Christ is not divided, not multiplied, not diminished, not increased.
Side note: More than once, people have said to me that all this is mathematically impossible. My usual, highly theological reply :) is:
"Mathematics, schmathematics!"

Themed Resolutions

This year, I have several resolutions, all with a similar theme.

1: Pray more slowly, especially the Rosary and the
Chaplet of Mercy.

2: Practice Lectio Divina, using a passage, or

a portion of a passage, from that day's Mass

readings.  Read the passage slowly, and then choose

a small, a very small, part of that passage and

"feed on it" for the rest of the day.
(It would probably be best to do this in the

morning)

3: Read EVERYTHING more slowly, and perhaps,

sometimes, even practice super-slow reading.

4: Eat and drink more slowly.  I don't gulp,

but I still want to slow down in this department.

So is the theme of these resolutions slowness?

No.  The theme of these resolutions is savoring.

New Image In Rosary Art Collection

I've just added this stained glass image to 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!: At last, something new in my Rosary Art Collection

Semper Gaudete!: Joy To The World!!!

Semper Gaudete!: Christmas is Over (repost)

Semper Gaudete!: Throwback Thursday

Semper Gaudete!: Adding to my Decorative Magnet Collection

Semper Gaudete!: This Week's Fan Fiction

Semper Gaudete!: Books Read in the Past Two Weeks

Books Read in the Past Two Weeks

Books read for the first time are marked with a # 

"St. Francis of Assisi" #

by G. K. Chesterton

"Around the Year With the Trapp Family"

by Maria Augusta von Trapp

(openlibrary.org loan)

"How to  Converse Continually and
Familiarly With God"
by St. Alphonsus Liguori
translated by Fr. L. X. Aubin, C.SS.R

{Sunday books} 

"The Imitation of Mary #

In Four Books"

by Alexander De Rouville 

Revised and Edited by Matthew J. O'Connell

[devotional reading, Catholic]

(one chapter a day; more on Sunday)

"Jo to the Rescue"
"The Mystery at the Chalet School"
by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
"A Chalet School Headmistress"
by Helen Barber
(fill-in)
"Tom Tackles the Chalet School"
"The Chalet School and Rosalie"
by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
[children's fiction, Chalet School series]

"Eight Cousins"
by Louisa May Alcott
[fiction]


"The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Decked Out"
by Neta Jackson
[Religious fiction, series, Protestant, multi-denominational and non-denominational]

"Jerry's Charge Account"
by Hazel Wilson
[children's fiction]


"A Christmas Carol"
by Charles Dickens
[fiction]
{my yearly December 24th tradition}
(I read this book for the first time in 1962,
after the first broadcast of Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol.
Since then, I've read it every year around Christmas, but I don't
remember when I decided to make December 24th my day to read this
book.)
My copy of this book was one of the items lost when I moved,
so thank God for free online books!

"Mary Erskine"

by Jacob Abbott
[children's fiction, Franconia series]
(free Google e-book)

"The Cloister Walk"
by Kathleen Norris
(non-fiction, autobiographical, Catholic themes [Protestant author]) 

{Two uses of the "F" word (in quoted conversations,

and NOT in any monastic settings.)}

(I could have done without the "F" word, but this

is still a lovely book.)

"Copycat"
by Leah Subar
[children's fiction, Judaica]

"A Lemon and a Star"
by E.C. Spykman
[children's fiction, historical]
(openlibrary.org loan)

"Botany" #

by Taylor R. Alexander, R. Will Burnett,

and Herbert S. Zim

[nonfiction]

(openlibrary.org loan)

"Woman's Life in Colonial Days" #

by Carl Holliday

[nonfiction]

(online Google book)

"Higher Lessons In English" #

by Alonzo Reed, A. M.

and Brainerd Kellogg, L. L. D.

[nonfiction, 1896 Edition, revised]

(online Kindle book)

This Week's Fan Fiction

Christmas at the 2-3

For No Reason At All (Expanded and Reposted)

23rd Precinct

new chapter added