New Image In Collection

I've just added this stained glass image to my Rosary Art Collection.

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

Well, once again it is time to hop over to RAnn's blog for Sunday Snippets, where Catholic bloggers share their posts.  I've discovered some wonderful blogs here.   How about sharing yours?

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.


Sunday books

"His First and Last Appearance #
by Fr. Francis J. Finn, S.J.
[children's fiction, Catholic]
(free online book)
"The Interior Castle"

by St. Teresa of Avila

(spirituality)

Weekday Books

"Betsy and the Great World"

 {carried over from last week}
by Maud Hart Lovelace

[Kindle book]

"The Tailor of Gloucester"
by Beatrix Potter
(children's fiction)
[free online book)

"Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping" #
"The Cats' Burglar" #
by Peggy Parish
[picture books]
(openlibrary.org loans)

"Try Giving Yourself Away"
by David Dunn
[non-fiction, third edition]

one of my favorite books.

I love the little anecdotes.

"Mardie's Adventures"
"Mardie to the Rescue"
by Astrid Lindgren, translated by Patricia Crompton.
[children's fiction]
Mardie's Adventures  was originally published in Sweden as Madicken.  The American translation is Mischievous Meg.  The translator is  Gerry Bothmer. A chapter is omitted from this translation, and Madicken/Meg is older than in the original.
Mardie to the Rescue, originally published in Sweden as Madicken och Junibackens Pims,
has never been translated for the American market, as several elements were considered unsuitable for children.

"Obvious Adams" 
by Robert Rawls Updegraff
with notes on doing the obvious 
added many years later by the author.
[fiction]
(openlibrary.org loan)
"The Sixth Prune"
[fiction]
Robert Rawls Updegraff wrote the
lovely book,"Try Giving Yourself Away", under
the pen name David Dunn

"Bertie Comes Through"
by Henry Gregor Felsen
[teen fiction]
{carrying over into next week}
(This was a great favorite of mine in high school
and junior high school)

A Book for Weekdays AND Sundays
"The Imitation of Christ"
by Thomas A Kempis
[Kindle book]

  

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

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

Semper Gaudete! : Addition to Collection

Semper Gaudete! : New Bible Reading Plan

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.


Sunday books

"His Luckiest Year" #

"His First and Last Appearance #
by Fr. Francis J. Finn, S.J.
[children's fiction, Catholic]
(free online books)
"The Instructed Heart:
soundings at four depths"
by F.J. Sheed
[non-fiction, memoir]

Weekday Books

"Little Pear And His Friends"

by Eleanor Frances Lattimore
[children's fiction]
{carried over from last week}
(openlibrary.org loans)

"Amelia Bedelia's Family Album" #
"Good Work, Amelia Bedelia" #
by Peggy Parish
[picture books]
(openlibrary.org loans)

"On the Banks of Appletree Creek"
by "Judith"
[Amish children's fiction]
(I bought this a few years ago, along with some other Amish books.   I wonder if the author took her title from "On The Banks of Plum Creek.")

"Betsy and the Great World"
by Maud Hart Lovelace
[Kindle book]
 {carrying over into next week}
 

"The Home Has A Heart"
by Thyra Ferre Bjorn
[non-fiction; Christian (Protestant) themes, recipes, 
anecdotes]
(January chapter only)
I read this book, one chapter
a month, every other year.


A Book for Weekdays AND Sundays
"The Imitation of Christ"
by Thomas A Kempis
[Kindle book]

New Bible Reading Plan

I'm going to try a new Bible reading plan in 2015, following this schedule.  

I'm not going to read all four passages in one sitting; that would be too confusing.  What I will do is read the Bible four times a day, not counting my bedtime Gospel reading.

Also, in order to enhance (I love the word enhance!) my Bible reading even more, I will use two translations.

First, I will read the portion in the RSV, and then I will read it in the GNB.  I considered using the NAB as well, but I decided that that would be overdoing it.

I don't plan to read the daily readings in the exact order given. This is a sample of how I intend to read my daily passages, beginning tomorrow.

Early morning:

Ps 1

Mid-morning or late morning:

Gen 1-2

Afternoon:

Isa 1:1-20

Evening:

Matt 1

And thus endeth my blogging for 2014.

Addition to Collection

I've added a new image that fits today's Gospel perfectly to my Rosary Art Collection.