Practicing Catholics

Why do we call ourselves "practicing Catholics?" Timothy Cardinal Dolan tells us what he thinks in this post.   

EWTN Global Catholic Radio Network
To Air Exclusive Pre-Canonization Specials

Irondale, AL – Looking for experienced and knowledgeable coverage of the canonizations of two Popes in Rome on April 26? Look no further than EWTN Rome Bureau Chief Joan Lewis and “Catholic Connection” Host Teresa Tomeo, two fabulous women of EWTN who will be on the ground in Rome with up-to-the-minute coverage of the canonizations you just won’t be able to get anywhere except the EWTN Global Catholic Radio Network!

Set up a reminder for yourself so you don’t miss “Countdown to Canonizations.” EWTN Radio Program Director Thom Price and Producer Elena Rodriguez will anchor in the studio with Tomeo in the field. The program will air live at 10:30 a.m. ET, Friday, April 25, and 10:30 a.m. ET, Saturday, April 26.

 

Tomeo, whose popular radio program normally can be heard weekdays at 9 a.m. ET, says she will report on the impact of the canonizations on the City of Rome, and provide a pilgrim’s perspective of the events. In addition, she will talk to people who knew the two Popes about who they were and what they were like and how people remember them.  “They’ll be lots of personal stories, stories of healings of all types including spiritual healings,” she said.

 

Many of EWTN’s radio managers from across the U.S. will also be interviewed. You can also expect a visit from British Journalist Joanna Bogle, whose EWTN television special “In the Footsteps of John Paul the Great,” takes viewers through the streets and villages where young Karol Wojtyla played, studied, and hid from the Nazis.

 

EWTN Rome Bureau Chief Joan Lewis, who received much acclaim from EWTN’s viewers for her knowledgeable commentary during the transition time between Pope Benedict and the election of Pope Francis, will once again regale listeners with her insider’s knowledge of the lives and works of the Popes and their lives.

 

Among her guests will be Pope John XXIII’s secretary, 98-year-old Cardinal Loris Capovilla, and she will get the inside perspective of a Swiss Guard. She will also share many exclusive photos, including one she took herself during a 1961 audience! Joan’s shows will also air live at 10 a.m. ET, Friday, April 25, and 10 am. ET, Saturday, April 26.

 

The programs above may be listened to live via streaming audio on the Internet (http://origin.ewtn.com/audiovideo/index.asp), shortwave (http://www.ewtn.com/radio/freq.htm), EWTN mobile (http://www.ewtnapps.com/), on the EWTN Radio Network via our affiliates, (http://www.ewtn.com/radio/radioaffiliatemap), on SiriusXM satellite radio channel #130 (http://www.sirius.com/ewtn), or on iHeartRadio (www.ewtn.com/radio).

 

EWTN Global Catholic Network, in its 33^rd year, is available in over 230 million television households in more than 140 countries and territories. With its direct broadcast satellite television and radio services, AM & FM radio networks, worldwide short-wave radio station, Internet website www.ewtn.com, electronic and print news services, and publishing arm, EWTN is the largest religious media network in the world.

 

New Picture in Collection

I've added a new painting to my Rosary Art Collection.

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

Well, here it is time once more for Sunday Snippets ! Thanks to RAnn for hosting!  I've discovered some wonderful blogs here.  How about sharing yours? 
I have a special request this week: Please pray for RAnn's father.

Semper Gaudete!: Addition to my Rosary Art Collection

Semper Gaudete!: Baby Charged With Attempted Murder

Semper Gaudete!: EWTN To Air Divine Mercy Events On Same Day “Mercy Pope” Will Be Canonized

Semper Gaudete!: Throwback Thursday

Semper Gaudete!: Book Clubs.. Dislike 'Em, Love 'Em

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 #

"Marion Howard or Trials and Triumphs" #

by May Ramsay
[Catholic fiction]

(free Google book)

"Love God And Do What You Please"

by St. Alphonsus Liguori

adapted by M. J. Huber

[spiritual reading]

{Sunday books}

Bible books(s) read this week:
"Sirach"

"I Met a Boy I Used to Know"

{carried over from last week}

"Angel in Heavy Shoes"

by Lenora Mattingly Weber

[YA fiction]

  

"Pride and Prejudice" #

by Jane Austen

[fiction]

{carrying over into next week}

"Pies and Prejudice" #

by Heather Vogel Frederick
[fiction]
(Kindle book]
{carrying over into next week}

"Henry and Beezus"
"Henry and Ribsy"
"Emily's Runaway Imagination"
{carrying over into next week}

by Beverly Cleary
[children's fiction]
(openlibrary.org loans)

Once again, I'm juggling books!  I have three carry-overs, not counting my Sunday books.

This Week's Fan Fiction

 

23rd Precinct 

New chapter added.

Book Clubs.. Dislike 'Em, Love 'Em

    I dislike, and also love, book clubs.   I dislike the type of book clubs where, once you join, 
you are obligated to buy a certain number of books a year... and if the brochure is delayed in 
the mail, you could wind up with a book you either already have, or do not want.
( Sidenote: School book clubs, where the students get the brochures in class, and only receive the books they actually order, are another matter.  I remember getting quite a few good books that way.)

I love the kind of book clubs where people meet, either in person or online, to discuss books.  
Some of these clubs are unofficial, local and intimate, and the members all know each other. 
These clubs often focus on one author or theme each year.

There are many official book clubs, with national, or even international, memberships.  It is not possible for all of the members to know each other, although some
do manage to get in touch via the Internet. 
This year, I became member of two of these clubs:
The Betsy-Tacy Society

[Joined on February 24th]

Friends of the Chalet School

[Joined on April 11th]

In addition to actual book clubs, there are books about book clubs, such as the "Mother-Daughter Book Club"  series, by Heather Vogel Frederick.  

[As of this posting, I'm enjoying the fourth book in the series, "Pies and Prejudice." I'm also reading the book the MDBC is reading, which is, of course, "Pride and Prejudice."   
That's one of the books I always meant to read, but somehow never got around to until now.]