Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

Come on over to RAnn's blog for Sunday Snippets, a place where Catholic bloggers like me share our posts. I've discovered some wonderful blogs here.  How about sharing yours?



Semper Gaudete! : Only Two This Year

Semper Gaudete! : Soft Kitty Again

Semper Gaudete! : Books Read In The Past Week

Books Read In The Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #

Books, (except Sunday books) are grouped by author, and not necessarily in the order read.

You'll notice that I've changed the format of this weekly post,

Sunday books

"Love God And Do What You Please"

by St. Alphonsus Liguori

adapted by M. J. Huber

[spiritual reading]
a favorite of mine; thank God it wasn't one
of the books lost when I moved.

"Claude Lightfoot or How The Problem Was Solved"

"That Football Game and What Came of It"

by Fr. Francis J. Finn, S.J.
[children's fiction, Catholic]
(free online books)

Weekday Books

"Light a Single Candle"

by Beverly Butler

[YA fiction]

"Jonica's Island"

by Gladys Malvern

[historical fiction]

"Invisible Lissa"

by Natalie Honeycutt

[children's fiction]

"The Lord and Mary Ann"

by Catherine Cookson

[fiction]

(openlibrary.org loan)

"Have You Seen My Cat?" #

by Eric Carle

[picture book]

(openlibrary.org loan)

I thought this would be a book where the cat is hidden
somewhere on every page or spread.  It wasn't.

"An Awful Name to Live Up To"

by Jessie Hosford

[children's fiction, historical]

"Curious Missie" #

by Virginia Sorensen

[children's fiction]

(openlibrary.org loan)

"Families, Etc."

"Thanks to You!"

by Miriam L. Elias

[children's fiction, Jewish]

"Bea and Mr. Jones"
by Amy Schwartz
[picture book]
(openlibrary.org loan)
another book lost when I moved;
thank God I can read it online for free!

"Mildred's Married Life and
a Winter With Elsie Dinsmore"
[children's fiction, Protestant]
(free online book)
{carrying over into next week}

A Book for Weekdays AND Sundays

"A 40-Day Spiritual Workout For Catholics"

by Bob Rice
(chapters 24-30)

one chapter a day

Books Selected For Long-Term Reading

"Summa Theologica"

by St. Thomas Aquinas
(free Kindle book)

"Swimming in the Sea of Talmud" #

[Jewish studies]

Soft Kitty Again

I just have to share what Winky did the other night... too funny!  

I was singing Soft Kitty to him, and right after I sang the words, "happy kitty, sleepy kitty," he purred three times! So we did the "purr, purr, purr" at the end together! It was a nice little duet.

Only Two This Year

I said that I might make my resolutions at the beginning of Advent, rather than on New Year's Day, and that I wasn't going to make a LOT of resolutions.

I've decided on these two:

1: Read a chapter every day in a good Catholic book that

is not reserved for Sunday.  Right now I'm reading "A Forty Day Spiritual Workout," by Bob Rice. And yes, I have something to

read when I finish this book.  

2: Read at least one picture book every week.  This can be one I've read many times, or something unfamiliar.  Books read more than once during this year will not count

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

Come on over to RAnn's blog for Sunday Snippets, where Catholic bloggers like me share our posts.  I've found some wonderful blogs here.  How about sharing yours?

Semper Gaudete! : Changing a Tradition? Maybe

Semper Gaudete! : Obama Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Abortion Activist Meryl Streep

Semper Gaudete! : It Made Me Want To See The Movie!

Semper Gaudete! : Abortion Activist: All Babies Conceived Accidentally Should Be Aborted

Semper Gaudete! : A VERY Fitting Gospel

Semper Gaudete! : Books Read in the Past Week

Books Read in the Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #

Books, (except Sunday books) are grouped by author, and not necessarily in the order read.

"Love God And Do What You Please"

by St. Alphonsus Liguori

adapted by M. J. Huber

[spiritual reading]
a favorite of mine; thank God it wasn't one
of the books lost when I moved.
"Blueberry Muffins"
by Colleen Spiro
[nonfiction, anecdotes, autobiographical]
(Kindle book)

"Bobby in Movieland"

"Claude Lightfoot or How The Problem Was Solved"by Fr. Francis J. Finn, S.J.
[children's fiction, Catholic]
(free online books)

"The Rosary

Keeping Company with Jesus and Mary"

by Karen Edmisten
{Sunday books}

A Book for Weekdays AND Sundays

"A 40-Day Spiritual Workout For Catholics"

by Bob Rice
(chapters 17-23)

one chapter a day

"A Grand Man"

by Catherine Cookson
[fiction]
(Kindle book)
{carried over from last week}
It's been years since I've read the "Mary Ann"
books, and I was delighted to find them on Kindle.
Some of the books are available for free on openlibrary.org.

"The Funny Guy"
by Grace Allen Hogarth
[children's fiction]

In Joan M. Lexau's "The Trouble With Terry,"
Terry reads a book that is both happy and sad
about a girl named Helen who "always doing things
wrong, just like Terry."
I wonder if that book was "The Funny Guy."
It definitely fits the description!

"The Middle Button"
by Kathryn Worth
[YA fiction, historical, based on her maternal ancestors]

"A Live Coal in The Sea" #
by Madeleine L'Engle
[fiction]
(openlibrary.org loan)
I'd been meaning to read this book
for a long time.

"The Book of Festivals and Holidays

the World Over"
by Maguerite Ickis
[children's non-fiction]

A VERY Fitting Gospel

I found today's Gospel [Luke 17:11-19] especially fitting. 

Ten lepers were healed. One came back to give thanks. The other nine were turkeys!