My Newest Magnet

I recently added this magnet to my collection.  Lately, I've been concentrating on replicas 

of porcelain signs.

New Item in Rosary Art Collection

This is the latest addition to my Rosary Art Collection.

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

Come one, come all, to Sunday Snippets ! Thanks to RAnn for hosting! 
 I've discovered some wonderful blogs here.

Semper Gaudete!: Your Suggestions

Semper Gaudete!: The First Ecard in My Rosary Art Collection

Semper Gaudete!: 30th Abortion Clinic Closes in 2013 After Killing Woman in Abortion

Semper Gaudete!: Ireland: Record Numbers of Pro-Lifers Attend National Vigil Against Abortion

Semper Gaudete!: Doctor Saves Life of Baby With Deadly Brain Aneurysm Using Superglue

Semper Gaudete!: Building Your Faith - Episode 1 - The Pillars of the Catechism

Semper Gaudete!: My Friend Tony (Yearly Repost)

Semper Gaudete!: Books Read in the Past Week

Books Read in the Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a # 

"The Little Flowers of St. Francis"

translated by Raphael Brown

[non-fiction, Catholic] 

{Sunday book}

"Harry Dee #

or Working it Out"

"Bobby in Movieland #

(reading online)

by Fr. Francis J. Finn, S.J.

[children's fiction, Catholic]

{Sunday books}

"My Sister, St. Therese"

by Sister Genevieve of the Holy Face

(Celine Martin)

(nonfiction, Catholic)

{Sunday book}

"Betsy in Spite of Herself"

{carrying over into next week} 

by Maud Hart Lovelace

 [children's/young adult fiction based on the lives

of the author, her family, and her friends]

"The Betsy-Tacy Companion"

by Sharla Scannell Whalen

[nonfiction]

(reading in conjunction with the Betsy-Tacy books)

"grace notes" 
(carried over from last week) 
"love, annie"
"just jazz"
"storm rising" 
by Dandi Daley Mackall 

(children's fiction, Christian [Protestant], Faithgirlz! Blog On series)

Your Suggestions

If you would like to suggest any new features for this blog, please add a comment to this post. Thanks!

My Friend Tony (Yearly Repost)

And yep, I mean St. Anthony of Padua, whose Feast is today!

How many times have people prayed some version of the prayer:

"Tony, Tony, come around.

Something's lost and must be found"?

I know St. Anthony is ALWAYS helping me find stuff.

Years ago, when I had just recently converted to Catholicism, I called

Mom at work (It was her usual break time.)

Mom said, "I can't talk right now. We're missing an important file and

we've looked all over for it."

"Okay," I said, "call me back when it turns up."

Well, within five minutes she called me. The file had been found.

"Aren't you going to thank me?" I asked.

"Thank you? What for? You're not even here."

"I know," I said, "but who do you think prayed to St. Anthony?"

More recently, I was chatting with a couple of my online friends, and

one of them was going slightly nuts because she had misplaced something, and couldn't find it anywhere. I said a prayer to St. Anthony, and then typed,

"Try looking again."

She didn't want to, but I persuaded her. And then she typed, in caps

"I FOUND IT!!!!!!"

I wasn't a bit surprised!

Does St. Anthony ALWAYS get lost articles back for me? Well, almost! One morning I couldn't find my Rosary. I looked. I prayed. To my surprise, I still did

not find it. But later that morning, I received a brand-new, beautiful Rosary from a Catholic organization. I'm almost SURE I heard St. Anthony chuckling.

BTW, the lost Rosary did turn up eventually.

Of course, there's much more to St. Anthony than just running the Lost and Found! :)

St. Anthony of Padua

Updated in 2013 to add Fr. Anthony's very inspirational homily.

Doctor Saves Life of Baby With Deadly Brain Aneurysm Using Superglue

Doctor Saves Life of Baby With Deadly Brain Aneurysm Using Superglue

This is an amazing story!  God bless that doctor.