I’ve opened a Flickr account to download photos after Blogger’s complete meltdown for me in this regard.
Our house.
Making the gingerbread house. Notice the two munchkins munching.
Twas the night before Christmas…
The tree…
..of 2300 lights.
Dancing on New Year’s Eve.
1. Favorite devotion or prayer to Jesus? Anima Christi
2. Favorite Marian devotion or prayer? Hail Holy Queen
3. Do you wear a scapular or medal? Yes, but as Megan pointed out, you’re supposed to say the rosary daily, and I don’t. It serves to remind me what a sinner I am.
4. Do you have holy water in your home? Yes, but in the cupboard, not the font.
5. Do you ‘offer up’ your sufferings? Yes. If you don’t understand this practice or need motivation to do it more often, I recommend this book.
6. Do you observe First Fridays and First Saturdays? Today seems like a good day to start.
7. Do you go to Eucharistic Adoration? No, unfortunately.
8. Are you a Saturday evening Mass person or Sunday morning Mass person? Usually Sunday mornings. Sometimes we go to a drunkard’s mass on Sunday evenings.
9. Do you say prayers at mealtime? Before dinner. I always forget before other meals.
10. Favorite Saint(s)? St. Anthony of Padua, St. Michael the Archangel, St. Nicholas.
11. Can you recite the Apostles Creed by heart? Yes.
12. Do you usually say short prayers (aspirations) during the course of the day? Yes, “Lord have mercy!” Also, “Help!” Often, “Thank you!”
13. Where is your favorite place to pray? In the shower. Or while running.
14. Bonus Question: When you pass by an automobile accident or other serious mishap, do you say a quick prayer for the folks involved? Usually.
I tag Laura the Crazy Mama.
Today is the feast of St. John Neumann. The Bad Catholics Guide to Good Living suggests having cheesesteaks in honor of Philadelphia where his body lies in glass as the base of an altar. Today is Friday, so perhaps you could defer that delicacy until tomorrow.
I attribute Fritz’s healing to his intercession, so I’m saying some extra prayers of thanksgiving today. Here’s another prayer to him for Catholic schools – to include homeschools, I’m sure.
Saint John Neumann, you helped organize Catholic education in the United States. Please watch over all Catholic schools and help them be a model of Christianity in their actions as well as their words. Amen
I just found this new web page blog thing that I think is pretty cool. It’s for Catholic converts and reverts. I don’t really qualify, since I never really left the Church. I had no faith, but that’s not the same thing. Lots of blogs I read are written by converts, and I thought they might be interested.
About VERT
VERT launch date = January 1st 2007.
VERT is intended to compliment other online Catholic communities with an extra special and specific focus on converts and reverts to the Catholic faith. If you know what those buzz terms signify, you blog, and you are looking for like minded people who will encourage and challenge VERT may be for you.
VERT COMBINES the purpose of a gathering place like St. Blog’s Parish and Amateur Catholics with weekly themed writing prompts that I hope is complimentary to the un-themed Catholic Carnival while being specifically geared for converts and reverts.
While I am an amateur and I think most members will be amateur Catholics VERT allows pros to join too.
VERT was created by me, Owen, of luminousmiseries.ca and of onionboy.ca over two days when I had a very bad head cold, time, and what I hope turns out to have been a good idea.
I think it was a good idea, too, Owen. I hope lots of Catholic converts hop on over.
Chesterton and Friends
a misconception mends:
That prose or poetry from an era long past
Nothing to do with the present hast.
My sister, who is literally half the woman she used to be, sends me an email complaining about feeling left out. My goodness, people, I really did have to run a household here yesterday! She sent her own clerihew:
Barbara Kaine
Had only one bane.
These last fifteen pounds
As bad as that sounds.
Please feel free to write your own, about yourself or someone else, and post it here.
For me, though, it’s back to the grindstone. Bill is back at work, and we will return to school, shrugging off the undisciplined ways of the last month to engage our minds in pursuits such as solving for x and maybe, just maybe, figuring out that H-A-T is the word hat and other intellectual endeavors between those.
Bill didn’t “get” the Ted Hughes clerihew – the original thing this morning that got me going. Anyone else lost on that? I’d really hate it if your English lit classes didn’t fill you in on some of grittier details of the life, and most importantly, the death, of mentally-unhinged poet, Sylvia Plath.
Laura the Crazy Mama
has never ridden on a llama.
Her latest post is quite the rant,
But argue with it, I most certainly can’t.
Barb – SFO Mom
could be known as “da Bomb.”
Little Brother, she allows him his own clothes to pick,
And for her older kid’s Halloween parties she made snot-on-a-stick.
Reit This Way 