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Semper Gaudete!: "Are You A Christian?"


Semper Gaudete!: Books Read in the Past Week

Books Read in the Past Week

"Project: GENIUS"
"Project: SCOOP"
by William D. Hayes
[children's fiction]

"Ginnie and Geneva"
"Ginnie Joins In"
by Catherine Woolley
[children's fiction]
(online; borrowed from Open Library)

("Little Sioux Girl"
by Lois Lenski
[children's fiction]
(online; borrowed from Open Library)


"Never Go Anywhere With Digby"
by Ethelyn M. Parkinson
[children's fiction]

"A Lemon and a Star"
by E.C. Spykman
[children's fiction]

"The Woman At The Well"
by Dale Evans Rogers
(autobiography, Christian [Protestant])

"Are You A Christian?"

I'd like to share something that happened less than a year after
my conversion to Catholicism.
I was on the train one afternoon when a girl in her mid-to-late teens walked into the car with some tracts, or pamphlets. She approached the woman sitting right across from me and said,
"I hope you don't mind my asking, but are you a Christian?"
"No," said the woman, "I'm a Catholic."
I didn't know whether to cry, or throw up! I wanted to say something, but I wasn't sure I had the right words. While I waited for the girl to reach me, I prayed for the right words, and for the guts to speak them.
After awhile, the girl came to me, and asked me the same question.
I answered, "Yes, I am a Christian. I'm a Catholic." It was just a little thing, but
I'll always be glad I spoke up.
You can be a Christian without being a Catholic, but you can't be a
Catholic without being a Christian.

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

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Semper Gaudete!: Is It EVER Justifiable For Someone To Have An Abortion?

Semper Gaudete!: I Miss WRITING!!!

Semper Gaudete!: Open Library

Semper Gaudete!: Books Read in the Past Week

Books Read in the Past Week

"The Home Has A Heart"
by Thyra Ferre Bjorn
[non-fiction, Christian (Protestant) themes,
anecdotes, recipes]
{August chapter only}

"Ellen Tebbits"
"Otis Spofford"
by Beverly Cleary
(children's fiction)
[among my childhood favorites]
{In "Otis Spofford", we are told that Otis
lived in an apartment building with his mother.
The absence of his father is never explained.
I doubt that his parents were divorced or separated; such
issues were not discussed in children's books when this book was
written.

"To Teach, To Love"
by Jesse Stuart
[autobiography]

Open Library

I now have an account at Open Library. This allows me to read online books which are not in the Public Domain. However,
just as with a physical, carry-books-home library, there is a due date!

I Miss WRITING!!!

I'm not talking/writing about the CREATIVE act of writing. No. What I miss is the PHYSICAL act of writing, writing  with a pen. Yes, in spite of my dysgraphia, which makes it so hard, almost impossible, for me to write legibly, I miss the feel of a pen in my hand, the sound of a pen scritch-scratching, and tip-tapping on paper. I even (almost!)  miss the writer's cramp. 
Oh, I'm not saying anything against the convenience of writing on the computer, and
being able to delete a word, a sentence, a paragraph and start over without wasting paper. And I'm most definitely not saying anything against being able to choose not only the words,
but the fonts, the sizes, the colors. No. After a lifetime of struggling with my
penmanship, it is a pleasure, a great pleasure, to be able to control the appearance of my writing.
And I have to admit that I like the feel of my fingers on the keyboard.


The above post was taken, slightly modified, from one of my old blogs.