Saturday, February 21, 2015

Sunday Snippets-- A Catholic Carnival

Well, once again it is time to hop over to RAnn's blog for Sunday Snippets, where Catholic bloggers like me share our posts.  I've discovered some wonderful blogs here.   How about sharing yours?




Semper Gaudete! : Fast Day?

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


Sunday books

"The Story of the Trapp Family Singers"
by Maria Augusta Trapp
[autobiography/biography]

"That Office Boy" #
by Fr. Francis J. Finn, S.J.
[children's fiction]
(free online book)

"The Little Apostle On Crutches" # 
by Henriette Eugenie Delemare
[children's fiction]

(free online book)



"Olivia and the Little Way"
by Nancy Belanger
[children's fiction]

(Kindle book]

Weekday Books

"All The Time You Need, The Greatest Gift In The World" #
by Robert R. Updegraff
[nonfiction]
(The author also wrote "Try
Giving Yourself Away" under

the pen-name David Dunn. )
This book has some good advice, and interesting anecdotes.
{carrying over into next week}

"Lark Rise to Candleford
A Trilogy"
by Flora Thompson
[autobiography]
{carrying over into next week}
(some books really should be read slowly, and this, to me, is one of them.)

"Here's A Penny"
by Carolyn Haywood
[children's fiction]

"Heidi's Children"
by Charles Tritten
[children's fiction]
(openlibrary.org loan)
[fiction]
(Kindle book)

"Heart to Heart"
(Free Kindle book, 2-in-1, also has "Twenty-One Ponies, but I still have my physical copy of that one, and almost all the other books in the series.)
"Twenty-One Ponies" 
"Star Light"
by Sandra Byrd
[children's fiction, Christian, (Protestant, no denomination specified) Secret Sisters series]

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

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Fast Day?

That question mark at the end of this post's title is not a typo.  It is deliberate.
 Fasting means, in the Catholic Church, having one full meal and
two smaller meals that together do not make a full meal.
Yes.  That is our fast, and, for many of us used to three full
meals plus at least one snack every day, it is a sacrifice, and
it can be difficult.
But I can't help wondering how many people would consider one full meal, and two small meals.... or even just one full meal...
a feast.

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Sunday Snippets-- A Catholic Carnival


Well, once again it is time to hop over to RAnn's blog for Sunday Snippets, where Catholic bloggers like me share our posts.  I've discovered some wonderful blogs here.   How about sharing yours?




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

"The Story of the Trapp Family Singers"
by Maria Augusta Trapp
[autobiography/biography]

"That Office Boy" #
by Fr. Francis J. Finn, S.J.
[children's fiction, Catholic]
(free online book)


Weekday Books



"All The Time You Need, The Greatest Gift In The World" #
by Robert R. Updegraff
[nonfiction]
(The author also wrote "Try
Giving Yourself Away" under

the pen-name David Dunn. )
This book has some good advice, and interesting anecdotes.
{carrying over into next week}

"Lark Rise to Candleford
A Trilogy"
by Flora Thompson
[autobiography]
{carrying over into next week}


"Blueberries For Sal"
by Robert McCloskey
[picture book]
(openlibrary.org loan)

"Deer Valley Girl" #
(openlibrary.org loan)
"Puritan Adventure"
(physical copy, replacing
the one lost when I moved)
by Lois Lenski
[children's fiction]




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

Daily Heroism

Every day, thousands of cops and firefighters perform an act of heroism. This action will not be mentioned in the news media, because it is not dramatic. It is, rather, a simple, routine act.
And what is this act of heroism? It is nothing more... or less...
than starting another day on the job.

Sunday, February 8, 2015

6th Century Image Added to Collection

I've just added this image to my Rosary Art Collection.  It's the first mosaic in the collection.

Encouraging news about EWTN's Fr. Anthony

Fr. Anthony hopes to be back on the air in the near future.  Oh, HOW I'm praying for that to happen! https://franciscanmissionaries.c...