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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Mary of the Velvet Log Cabin
I don't know, I like it (but I'm a fiber artist hahaha and I like anything that uses velvet).
Mary of the Velvet Log Cabin
Mary of the Velvet Log Cabin
Ember Day!
Today is the last of the 3 ember days before Christmas...
The Wednesday one isn't too hard, if I remember to do it. The Friday one is somewhat easy because I'm used to not eating meat on Fridays. The third one is torture! Back-to-back, quasi-fasting, no meat two days in a row?! Gaaahhh...
The Wednesday one isn't too hard, if I remember to do it. The Friday one is somewhat easy because I'm used to not eating meat on Fridays. The third one is torture! Back-to-back, quasi-fasting, no meat two days in a row?! Gaaahhh...
Sunday, December 04, 2011
Apps!
If you have an iPod/iTouch/iPad, hopefully you've downloaded some of the Catholic apps out there. I have an iTouch and have downloaded a couple of apps, the iConfess (very nice!), one about St Joseph (okay), iBreviary (I use this often) and a Rosary app which isn't very special.
According to Father V, a new Marian app will be launched on December 8th by the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception (National Shrine of The Divine Mercy, Stockbridge, MA). Details here. I'm looking forward to getting it and will post more here after I check it out.
According to Father V, a new Marian app will be launched on December 8th by the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception (National Shrine of The Divine Mercy, Stockbridge, MA). Details here. I'm looking forward to getting it and will post more here after I check it out.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
So happy...we get to keep the house!
I haven't mentioned on the blog why I'm down in South Carolina when my husband is in Massachusetts but we'd both been out of work for two years and this job came up and I had to work! We fell behind on mortgage payments last summer and just couldn't get caught up. Luckily our bank negotiated a loan modification for us and we'll be able to keep the house!
Deo gratias!
Boy, will I be saying prayers of thanksgiving tonight!
Deo gratias!
Boy, will I be saying prayers of thanksgiving tonight!
The Colosseum
This is beautiful. This makes me realize that I need to read more of the Church Fathers and learn Catholic history.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Blessed Be God (or Lent's not that far away)
Lent is right around the corner (Oh no! Oh wait, that's a good thing, if you're ready for it)
I'm sure you're seeing all sorts of suggestions/recommendations on other blogs but here's a recommendation for a great prayer book which would be wonderful to have even if Lent wasn't barreling down on us.
Blessed Be God by Fathers Callan and McHugh.
I got this book a week ago and I can't stop picking it up. It's small in dimension but it's a real prayer book with thin pages like missals of old so even with 700+ pages, it is still relatively light-weight. It has daily prayers, prayers for the Day of the Week, Month of the Year, novenas, devotions, etc. They're all beautiful prayers. Most of them flow very well, there are a few which have words like 'livest and reignest' in them so those feels a little clunky when you're saying them. But the book is full of jewels of Catholic worship from long ago. It was originally published in 1959.
I'm sure you're seeing all sorts of suggestions/recommendations on other blogs but here's a recommendation for a great prayer book which would be wonderful to have even if Lent wasn't barreling down on us.
Blessed Be God by Fathers Callan and McHugh.
I got this book a week ago and I can't stop picking it up. It's small in dimension but it's a real prayer book with thin pages like missals of old so even with 700+ pages, it is still relatively light-weight. It has daily prayers, prayers for the Day of the Week, Month of the Year, novenas, devotions, etc. They're all beautiful prayers. Most of them flow very well, there are a few which have words like 'livest and reignest' in them so those feels a little clunky when you're saying them. But the book is full of jewels of Catholic worship from long ago. It was originally published in 1959.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Rome Sweet Home
I love conversion stories and have always enjoyed listening to Dr Scott Hahn, a famous convert, who brings complex theological issues down to a level that even *I* can understand so I thought the book by he and his wife, Kimberly, Rome Sweet Home, would be a happy story.
Well, it didn’t start out that way! I knew they had a happy ending because both they and their children made it into the Catholic Church many years ago but the book covered the whole process of their discovery of the fullness of Truth of the Catholic Church. First Kimberly made the discovery that the Church was correct about contraception (this book was written in the early 1990s by the way). Then Scott questioned one tenet of Protestantism, sola fide, and for him, that started unraveling the whole ball of yarn. He fought his conversion every step of the way, at least in the beginning and Kimberly, while being a supportive wife, fought the idea and prayed and read books and prayed some more.
It was a real page-turner for me and made me respect the Hahns’ struggles to get to where they are today.
Also, in the book, they mention a talk that Scott gave to a group of Catholics. It became known as "The Tape" and can be found here.
Well, it didn’t start out that way! I knew they had a happy ending because both they and their children made it into the Catholic Church many years ago but the book covered the whole process of their discovery of the fullness of Truth of the Catholic Church. First Kimberly made the discovery that the Church was correct about contraception (this book was written in the early 1990s by the way). Then Scott questioned one tenet of Protestantism, sola fide, and for him, that started unraveling the whole ball of yarn. He fought his conversion every step of the way, at least in the beginning and Kimberly, while being a supportive wife, fought the idea and prayed and read books and prayed some more.
It was a real page-turner for me and made me respect the Hahns’ struggles to get to where they are today.
Also, in the book, they mention a talk that Scott gave to a group of Catholics. It became known as "The Tape" and can be found here.
Friday, February 18, 2011
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