Thursday, March 21, 2013

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

The First Saint I Ever Heard of (Reposted)

The following post makes its annual appearance in this blog.

Slightly adapted from a post in one of my old blogs.

Today is the Solemnity of St. Joseph, Husband of Mary. People love to quote the saints, but we cannot quote St. Joseph. None of his words have been preserved.
I take that back about not being able to quote St. Joseph. We cannot quote his words, but we can, and should, "quote" his devotion to Jesus and Mary.
St. Joseph was the first saint I ever heard of, but that was because of the children's aspirins! LOL!
I like simple, homely {homely as in homelike, not, definitely not, as in  unattractive] images. I love to think about St. Joseph walking the floor when the Baby Jesus was teething. 

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Books Read in the Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #. (Why haven't I, until now, given the #
to Sunday books I hadn't read before?)

"Love God And Do What You Please"
by St. Alphonsus Liguori
adapted by M.J. Huber
[non-fiction, Catholic]
{Sunday book} 
"Learning to Lean" #
by Richard Maffeo
[non-fiction, Catholic]
{Sunday book} 
(Amazon Kindle cloud reader) 


"Elsie's Girlhood"
 {carried over from last week}
"Elsie's Womanhood"
{carrying over into next week}
by Martha Finley
[children's fiction, Christian, Protestant]
I find certain things in the "Elsie" books really
interesting, and other things in them really annoying.

"The American Frugal Housewife"
by Mrs. Child (Lydia Maria  Child)
Twelfth Edition, Enlarged and
corrected by the author
She had to add the word "Americaan" to
the title because there was a book by the
same name published in England.
 {carrying over into next week}

Encouraging news about EWTN's Fr. Anthony

Fr. Anthony hopes to be back on the air in the near future.  Oh, HOW I'm praying for that to happen! https://franciscanmissionaries.c...