Asher Lev and Matisse

This post is adapted from a post in one of my old blogs.
Quote from "My Name Is Asher Lev", by Chaim Potok: "His art is not enjoyable. He is not Matisse." That was my introduction to Henri Matisse, whose art I find extremely enjoyable.
I love it when a book leads me to something new, and that seems to happen fairly often.

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

Join me and other Catholic bloggers at Sunday Snippets. Thanks once again to RAnn for hosting!

Semper Gaudete!: Lent Begins In March



Semper Gaudete!: EWTN.com - Dr. Bernard Nathanson Remembered For His Profound Pro-life Conversion



Semper Gaudete!: The Missing Book



Semper Gaudete!: Defunding threat finds Planned Parenthood at vulnerable point in its contentious history :: EWTN News



Semper Gaudete!: Books Read in the Past Week

Books Read in the Past Week

"Books I Love"
{started last week, finished on Monday}
(non-fiction)
[Former library book, discarded and put on sale.
How could I resist a book with that title???]


"Under The Lilacs"
by Louisa May Alcott
{started last week, finished on Monday}
(children's fiction)

"Danika's Totally Terrible Toss"
{read on Tuesday}
by Dannah Gresh
[e-book]
"Just Call Me Kate"
{read on Tuesday
by Dannah Gresh and Janet Mylin
[e-book]
"Yuzi's False Alarm"
{read on Tuesday}
by Dannah Gresh and Chizuruoke Anderson
[e-book]
"T is for AnTONIa"
by Dannah Gresh and Suzy Weibel
{read on Tuesday}
[e-book]
(children's fiction, Christian {Protestant} )
[Secret Keeper Girls series]

Defunding threat finds Planned Parenthood at vulnerable point in its contentious history :: EWTN News

Defunding threat finds Planned Parenthood at vulnerable point in its contentious history :: EWTN News

Let's pray that ALL abortion clinics will be shut down, or, better yet, transformed
into places that SUPPORT life.

The Missing Book

I recently read "Two Chalet School Girls In India", by Priyadarshini Narendra. This is one of the fill-ins to
Elinor M. Brent-Dyer's original "Chalet School" series.
So why am I calling this post "The Lost Manuscript"?
Well, to quote the late Helen McClelland's foreword:
"No question about it: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer did undoubtedly
write a book with the title Two Chalet School Girls in India.
She refers to it at various times during the Chalet School
series. But the mystery of what happened to this story
is still unsolved."
Helen McClelland speculated that the book may not have
had a close enough connection to the Chalet School.
"Or could it have been that, at some stage, the story dealt
with Jo's conversion to Roman Catholicism, which might in
those days have been thought unsuitable for a school readership?"
Personally, I think that this is very possible. The New York Public Library banned "Heaven To Betsy", by Maud Hart Lovelace, due to Betsy and Julia's conversion from the Baptist to the Episcopal church. (The ban has since been lifted.)
Elinor M. Brent-Dyer's manuscript may still be lying around
somewhere. And perhaps it will turn up and FINALLY be
published. I, for one, would love to read it.
It would be so interesting to compare the two versions.

EWTN.com - Dr. Bernard Nathanson Remembered For His Profound Pro-life Conversion

EWTN.com - Dr. Bernard Nathanson Remembered For His Profound Pro-life Conversion

God rest his soul. I wonder how many babies were
SAVED due to Dr. Nathanson's pro-life testimonies?

Lent Begins In March

It feels a bit strange to still be eating chocolate so late in February!