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This video contains graphic, disturbing images of aborted babies.  

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

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

Semper Gaudete!: Priests for Life, Father Pavone praised in Congress

Semper Gaudete!: Almost Familiar

Semper Gaudete!: Not Believing, Yet Pleasing to God

Semper Gaudete!: New Magnets Ordered

Semper Gaudete!: Unanswerable Questions

Semper Gaudete!: Homily 2012-08-10 - Rev Br John Paul Mary MFVA - St Lawrence Deacon Martyr

Semper Gaudete!: Too Cute in Spots

Semper Gaudete!: Books Read in the Past Week

Books Read in the Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #

"Welcome, Stranger" 

{carried over from last week}

"Pick a New Dream"

 by Lenora Mattingly Weber

 [teen fiction, Catholic family, series]

"Emily's Hope" #

by Ellen Gable

[Catholic fiction, partly historical]

"Under the Lilacs"

by Louisa May Alcott

[fiction]
"Deira Joins the Chalet School"
by Caroline German
(fill-in)
[children's fiction, series, school stories]
{carrying over into next week}

Too Cute in Spots

I love Louisa May Alcott's books. (I think we've already established that!) However, there are certain parts of Under The Lilacs that I find just a bit too cute.
For example, several times LMA refers to the dog, Sancho, as a Bow Wow. I hate to say it, but that almost makes me want to bark, er, barf!

Homily 2012-08-10 - Rev Br John Paul Mary MFVA - St Lawrence Deacon Martyr

A good homily from Deacon John Paul.   I found it rather fitting that a deacon should deliver today's homily.   After all, St. Lawrence, whose feast we are commemorating today, was a deacon as well as a martyr.

Unanswerable Questions

Sometimes, when I read an old book, or rather an old, used copy of a book, I find myself wondering about the book's earlier, or I should say earliest readers. For example I'm currently reading a copy of Louisa May Alcott's Under the Lilacs which came out in 1905.

I wonder about the first person, who was, I assume, perhaps erroneously, a young girl, who read this particular copy. Where did she live? What else was going on in her life? What games did she play? What were her friends like? Did she enjoy school, or was school a struggle for her? Did she have a yard or a garden with a lilac bush, and actually read this book under the lilacs? Or did she sigh wistfully, and wish she knew how lilacs smell?

New Magnets Ordered

I've just ordered two more magnets for my collection.