Throwback Thursday

Try Contemplating Your Navel

That's probably one of the last post titles you'd expect to see in a Catholic blog, but I was contemplating my navel today. In other words, I was thinking about my belly button, about
why I have a belly button.
I have a belly button because, when I was born, my umbilical cord was clamped off.
So from contemplating my belly button, I went on to contemplating my umbilical cord. I thought of how I received nourishment and oxygen through that umbilical cord while I was in the womb.
And the fact that I needed nourishment before I was born is, to me, another proof that life begins at conception. If life began at birth, we wouldn't need to be nourished while in
the womb.
"For Thou didst form my inward parts, Thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb." [Psalm 139:13]
A belly button is a wonderful reminder of how God provides for us, cares for us, from the very beginning of our lives.
So, yes! Try contemplating your navel.

Originally posted on January 28, 2011

Obama Celebrates 41 Years of Abortion: Roe an “Opportunity to Fulfill Dreams”

Obama Celebrates 41 Years of Abortion: Roe an “Opportunity to Fulfill Dreams”

41 years of the legal murder of the most innocent, helpless human beings is something to celebrate?????
And I find it very ironic that Barack Obama so strongly supports an organization whose founder did not want him to be born.

New Item in Break-Off Collection

I've just added a white porcelain toilet-paper holder handle (right side) to my Break-Off Collection.

New Painting in Rosary Art Collection

Here is the latest addition to my Rosary Art Collection.

Chaplet of Immaculate Mary, Queen of All Saints

I'd like to share a chaplet I've composed.

Chaplet of Immaculate Mary, Queen of All Saints
For private use only
(May be prayed on an ordinary Rosary)

Begin with the Sign of the Cross.

One Our Father
One Hail Mary
One Glory Be

On the large beads:
"O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee."
On the small beads:
"Immaculate Virgin Mary, Queen of all Saints, pray for us."
After the fifth decade:
One Hail, Holy Queen

Conclude with the Sign of the Cross.

Sunday Snippets-- A Catholic Carnival

Come one come all, to Sunday Snippets!  Thanks to RAnn
for hosting!  I've discovered some wonderful blogs here, so how about sharing yours?

Semper Gaudete!: New Painting in Rosary Art Collection

Semper Gaudete!: Throwback Thursday

Semper Gaudete!: WARNING: Don't read this post if you've just eaten

Semper Gaudete!: Introducing... My Latest Online Collection

Semper Gaudete!: This Week's Fan Fiction

Semper Gaudete!: Books Read in the Past Week

Books Read in the Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #

"In A Great Tradition

Tribute to Dame Laurentia McLachlan,

Abbess of Stanbrook" #
by The Benedictines of Stanbrook
(I am very glad to have this book.  Rumer Godden
wrote in In This House of Brede: "All of the characters
in this book are imaginary, but many of the episodes
are based on fact; some are taken from the life and
sayings of Dame Laurentia McLachlan and Sister Mary
Ann McArdle of Stanbrook Abbey."
{Sunday books}

"The Imitation of Mary #

In Four Books"

by Alexander De Rouville 

Revised and Edited by Matthew J. O'Connell

[devotional reading, Catholic]

(one chapter a day; more on Sunday)

"Penrod" 

(free Google book)
{carried over from last week}
"Penrod and Sam"
by Booth Tarkington
{carrying over into next week}

[fiction]

I love the "Penrod" stories, but I've been
planning for some time now to write a post
about the racism in the books.