LET them Have Pain

One argument against abortion is that unborn babies are capable of feeling pain. However, some people who support abortion claim that it even if it does cause the unborn some pain, even excruciating pain, that is the only pain  that they will ever feel.

Well, I say, LET the unborn babies have pain!

Let them have the pain of teething, the pain of falling and skinning their knees, the pain of disappointment, the pain of
failing at something, the pain, not necessarily physical, of correction. In  other words, let them have the pains that come with living, learning, and growing, and NOT the pain of abortion.

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 book(s)

"Lord Bountiful" #
by Fr. Francis J. Finn, S.J.
[children's fiction]

Weekday Books

"A Pageant of Hats
Ancient and Modern"
by Ruth Edwards Kilgour
(non-fiction)

{carried over from last week}

"Pollyanna"

{carried over from last week}

"Pollyanna Grows Up"

by Eleanor H. Porter

[fiction]

"Aunt Flossie's Hats (And Crab Cakes Later) #
by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
[picture book]
(openlibrary.org loan) 

"Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown"

by Maud Hart Lovelace

[children's fiction]

"Champion of the Chalet School" #

by Adrianne Fitzpatrick

[children's fiction, Chalet School series,

fill-in]

"Welcome, Stranger"

by Lenora Mattingly Weber

[YA fiction]
{carrying over into next week}

A Book for Weekdays AND Sundays

"The Imitation of Christ"

by Thomas A Kempis

[Kindle book]

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 book(s)

"A Family on Wheels:

Further Adventures of the
Trapp Family Singers" #

by Maria Augusta von Trapp

[autobiography]

"St. Francis of Assisi"

by G. K. Chesterton

[biography]

"Lord Bountiful" #
by Fr. Francis J. Finn, S.J.
[children's fiction]

Weekday Books

{carried over from last week}
"A Bright Star Falls"
(Kindle edition)

{carried over from last week}

by Lenora Mattingly Weber

[YA fiction]

"A Pageant of Hats
Ancient and Modern"
by Ruth Edwards Kilgour
(non-fiction)

{carried over from last week}

"Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill"

by Maud Hart Lovelace

[children's fiction]

(in "The Betsy-Tacy Treasury, Kindle Edition)

"Bright Morning" #
by Charlie May Simon
[children's fiction]

"Herbert"
"Herbert Again"
"More Fun With Herbert"

"Herbert's Homework"by Hazel Wilson
[children's fiction]

"The Five Chinese Brothers"
by Claire Huchet Bishop
and Kurt Weise
[picture book]
(openlibrary.org loan)
I hadn't read this in years. 

"Pollyanna"
by Eleanor H. Porter
[fiction]
{carrying over into next week}

A Book for Weekdays AND Sundays

"The Imitation of Christ"

by Thomas A Kempis

[Kindle book]

New Image In Art Collection

Here is the latest addition to my Rosary Art Collection.

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 book(s)

"A Family on Wheels:

Further Adventures of the
Trapp Family Singers" #

by Maria Augusta von Trapp

[autobiography]

"St. Francis of Assisi"

by G. K. Chesterton

[biography]

"Lord Bountiful" #
by Fr. Francis J. Finn, S.J.
[children's fiction]

Weekday Books

"The More, The Merrier"

{carried over from last week}
"A Bright Star Falls"
(Kindle edition)
{carrying over into next week}

by Lenora Mattingly Weber

[YA fiction]

"Wings" #
by Mary Kennedy
[picture book]
(openlibrary.org loan)

"Betsy-Tacy and Tib" 
by Maud Hart Lovelace
[children's fiction]

"Maminka's Children" #
by Elizabeth Orton Jones
[children's fiction]
(openlibrary.org loan)

"A Pageant of Hats
Ancient and Modern"
by Ruth Edwards Kilgour
(non-fiction)
{carrying over into next week}

A Book for Weekdays AND Sundays

"The Imitation of Christ"

by Thomas A Kempis

[Kindle book]

Old Hat, New Hat

I recently ordered and received a book I hadn't read in years...

A Pageant of Hats, Ancient and Modern, by Ruth Edwards Kilgour, which I am currently reading.

Well, that book got me to thinking about a hat I used to have,

one that I owned for years, and got a great deal of use and

enjoyment out of.

It was a blue felt shapeable hat....very shapeable.  And I shaped it in every possible way.  I also liked to use different

accessories on my hat.  Sometimes it would be one of several

pins I had. Sometimes it would be a scarf,with the ends tied into a bow.

I had that hat for more than ten years, not unlike the hat Miss

Opal wore in Lenora Mattingly Weber's Beany and the Beckoning Road.

"Her black hat had seen years of service.  It was only the flowers, Beany realized, which blossomed anew on it every

spring.  This spring Miss Opal had chosen pink, yellow, and blue

daisies."

Well, between that passage and the book about hats, is it any wonder that I began to miss my hat, which also saw "years of service," more than I did before?   Is it any wonder that I decided it was time to get a replacement?

I went to amazon.com to search for a hat as much as possible like my lost, lamented one.  And yes, I found one,  and, after reading the reviews, I ordered it.  

Yes, it is shapeable!  And yes, I will be accessorizing it, but I

won't change the accessory every day, and I will never use a

pin on this hat... it's made of paper, but, according to the reviews, it doesn't feel like paper, and it is durable.  The original price was $25.99, but it was on sale for only $6.06, and the shipping was free.  I thank God for that; the original price would

have been a bit much for me at this time.

I've also ordered a sunflower self-adhesive embroidered applique sticker patch, which I'd actually selected before I found the hat. I have to laugh when I reflect that I spent more... but not much more... for the accessory than I did for the hat... just as I've spent more money on Bible covers than I did for my favorite Bible!

So when and where do I plan to wear this hat?  Wear it where?

Where wear it?  Not outside; I couldn't run after it if it were to

blow away.

I'm going to wear it, instead of a prayer veil, when I watch the Mass on EWTN... and perhaps when I just feel like wearing it!

But am I giving up on veils? No; I will still wear a veil when I

pray the Liturgy of the Hours, and when I make Online Adoration.

Was it necessary for me to buy the hat, and the sticker.  No, and I realized that before I placed my order.   Every now and then it is good to make a completely frivolous purchase... provided, of course, that it is something you can afford, and

something you really want.

The Perfect Mother

Today, Mother's Day, I'm going to blog about the perfect mother.

Most mothers, both real and fictional, are not perfect; they

make mistakes from time to time.  Not even Mrs. March

in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women was perfect.

The following is taken from one of my older posts:

Remember the chapter called "Jo Meets Apollyon," where
Amy burned the book Jo had worked on for several years
because Jo wouldn't let her come to the theater with her 
and Meg and Laurie?

Jo was, of course, furious with Amy... just as I would have been,
 just as almost anybody would have been.

But how did Mrs. March, Marmee, handle the situation?
"Mrs. March came home, and, having heard the story, 
soon brought Amy to a sense of the wrong she had done her sister."
That's it.  We never find out just how she "brought Amy to a
sense of the wrong she had done her sister."  We never learn
what Marmee said to Amy.

Mrs. March, in fact, seemed much more concerned about Jo's very
 understandable anger than about Amy's deliberate, vindictive 
destruction of Jo's property.

If I were a mother, I'm sure that I would not be perfect either.
For example, I might scold or punish a child undeservedly, or

too severely.  On the other hand, I might "look the other way"

when I ought to exercise some parental discipline.

In all the history of the world, there has been only one perfect Mother.