My Patron Saint's Parents Are Going To Be Canonized!!!!

Here is the article.
I'm absolutely ecstatic over this.

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! : Bible Marking Revisited

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

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

Weekday Books

"Lark Rise to Candleford
A Trilogy"
by Flora Thompson
[autobiography]

"Accidental Angel"

"Double Dare"

by Sandra Byrd
[children's fiction, Christian, (Protestant, no denomination specified) Secret Sisters series]

"The Wide, Wide World"

by Susan Warner

[fiction, Christian (Protestant) ]

(Kindle book)

"Mama Cat Has Three Kittens"#
by Denise Fleming
[picture book]
(openlibrary.org loan)

"Blatherskite"
by Marian Potter
[children's fiction]
(openlibrary.org loan)
{carrying over into next week}

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

Bible Marking Revisited

A few years ago, I wrote a post about my Bibles, and my Bible-marking systems.  Well, I finally decided that it would be less

confusing to have one system throughout my favorite Bible....

yes, that paperback Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition, that I've had for almost 17 years now.  So I've just ordered a

yellow Bible highlighter, one that doesn't bleed through to the other side of the page.  When I get it, I will use it on all the

marked passages in my Bible that aren't already highlighted, and, probably, on some other passages as well.

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]

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.