Why Didn't I Think of This Before?

I've been praying the Angelus for years, but now I've started to do something more.   Before beginning, I say, "I offer this Angelus for the protection of the unborn."  After all, in the Angelus, we remember Mary's "Fiat," her "Yes."

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

I'd like to invite you to join me and a growing group of Catholic bloggers at Sunday Snippets.  I've discovered some wonderful blogs here.  Thanks to RAnn for hosting!


Semper Gaudete!: Written By the Finger of God: A Royal Priesthood, A Holy Family

Semper Gaudete!: Welcome to Hobby Talk Tuesday

Semper Gaudete!: RU—serious? Jennie McCormack, the next ‘Roe’? Good grief! | LifeSiteNews.com

Semper Gaudete!: What Color is Tony the Tiger's Nose?

Semper Gaudete!: To Veil, or Not To Veil, that WAS the Question

Semper Gaudete!: BIG Trouble Brewing in the Middle East?

Semper Gaudete!: I Beg To Differ

Semper Gaudete!: Homily 2012-07-12 - Fr Anthony Mary MFVA - Weekday

Semper Gaudete!: Life on the Rock - 2012-07-12 - Awestruck Global - Norman Servais and Mark Eames

Semper Gaudete!: I Just HAD to Order this Book!
Semper Gaudete!: Books Read in the Past Week

Books Read in the Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #

"The Moffats"
by Eleanor Estes
[children's fiction, based on the author's childhood memories.]
{carried over from last week}

"Double Trouble Book 1: What a Pair!" #

by Wanda Brunstetter

[children's fiction, Amish]

(Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader)

"A World of Girls"
by L. T. Meade
[children's fiction, school story]
"Princess in Calico"
by  Edith Ferguson Black
[Protestant fiction, no denomination specified.]
(My paperback copy says "Author Unknown", but 
I found the original online, and the author's name is given as Edith
Ferguson Black. )
"Little Eddie"
"Eddie and the Fire Engine"
by Carolyn Haywood
[children's fiction]
"The School at the Chalet"
by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
[children's fiction, series, school stories]
(Carrying over into next week)
{As usual, I plan to read the original series
 and the fill-ins.  Maybe this time I'll be able
to fill in the gaps in my collection. (Not to be
confused with my hobby collections!) }

I Just HAD to Order this Book!

I've just ordered a new book, Collecting For Beginners, by Jeff Figler.  Now, I'm not exactly a beginner; I've had various collections since I was a little girl.  However, I've never let the words

"For Beginners" deter me if the book seems to be one I would enjoy reading.   And this definitely seems to be one I would enjoy reading. (I should probably say, "Will enjoy reading."  It was published recently, and among the items mentioned are refrigerator magnets!  

In the excerpt I read, the author says that his mother will soon need another refrigerator for all of her  magnets!

Life on the Rock - 2012-07-12 - Awestruck Global - Norman Servais and Mark Eames

 Catholics and the social media.

I've already joined Awestruck-Global

Homily 2012-07-12 - Fr Anthony Mary MFVA - Weekday

A wonderful, thought-provoking homily from Fr. Anthony.

We must surrender everything to the Lord.
I love the way Fr. Anthony describes the difference between a
vacation trip and a pilgrimage.

I Beg To Differ

I will soon be re-reading Louisa May Alcott's Rose in Bloom.  I had planned to read it earlier in the week, but my paperback copy is in worse condition than I remembered, so I've ordered a hardcover copy through abebooks.com.

I  could  just read it for free online, but Louisa May Alcott is one author whose books I'd rather read in book form.  When it comes to Louisa May Alcott, I'm An Old-Fashioned Girl.

However, I strongly disagree with something she has Rose's Uncle Alec  say about a French novel which he considered unsuitable for her to read.

(Thank God for copy and paste!)
"Ah, my dear, if the fine phrases won't bear putting into honest English, the thoughts they express won't bear putting into your innocent mind! That chapter is the key to the whole book, and if you had been led up, or rather down, to it artfully and artistically, you might have read it to yourself without seeing how bad it is. All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful."
He paused a moment, then added with an anxious glance at the book, over which she was still bending, "Finish it if you choose–only remember, my girl, that one may read at forty what is unsafe at twenty, and that we never can be too careful what food we give that precious yet perilous thing called imagination."
 I disagree.  I think that what is poisonous at twenty is poisonous at forty, at sixty, at eighty.