Jesus in the Catholic Bible

Gayla asked me if I would provide the Catholic version of this post , so when I stumbled across this list earlier, I thought I’d post it here..
Old Testament
1 Genesis He is your Creator God
2 Exodus He is your Redeemer
3 Leviticus He is your Sanctifer
4 Numbers He is your Guide
5 Deuteronomy He is your Teacher
6 [...]

Dante’s Inferno Test.

By way of Julie
The Dante’s Inferno Test has sent you to Purgatory!Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level
Score

Purgatory (Repenting Believers)
Extreme

Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)
Moderate

Level 2 (Lustful)
Moderate

Level 3 (Gluttonous)
Moderate

Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)
Very Low

Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)
Moderate

Level 6 – The City of Dis (Heretics)
Very Low

Level 7 (Violent)
High

Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, [...]

First draft of my assignment

This is a snippet of the first draft of my assignment. There’s a lot more to be done yet, and there are many more categories and columns than this, but you get the general idea. All that faffing around yesterday, and this is what I came up with….I know ten year olds who can produce [...]

The Feast Day of St. Jerome.

There’s hope for me yet, because St. Jerome reputedly had an awful temper and had zero tolerance for anyone who attempted to teach erroneously within the Catholic Church.
A trilingual Biblical Scholar and Doctor of the Church, he is best remembered for having produced the Latin Vulgate and for writing numerous biblical commentaries, both great [...]

Computer Chaos.

Earlier this afternoon:
“Stupid dumb computers!”, I shouted, along with a few other expletives.
“What made me think that completing my first Catechetical assignment as a ’spreadsheet type’ chart, would be easier than formulating a 1,500 word, 3 paragraphed essay? I dunno. Could it be that having seen my daughter create them in 2 seconds flat I [...]

Canonisation for Catherine Doherty?

Some real gems for links today…ever heard of Catherine Doherty? I hadn’t before yesterday, but now I have I think I just want to keep on hearing about her and reading her writings!
Catherine Doherty was an amazing Catholic convert, she is pictured below in 1982 with His Holiness Pope John Paul II.
Her cause for [...]

Apologies

I was lying in bed last night, when I suddenly remembered that I’d fogotten to post Tuesday’s Novena to St. Martha!
I am so very sorry. I spent hours on Tuesday just sleeping on and off and looking after the children (who have been off most of the week too) and trying to get over the [...]

Penance for your thoughts ?

This is a tale about penance, and how so often it is possible to fall into the sin of pride when thinking our sins in need of greater recompense to God than the priest discerns of us.
I know this prideful state of being all too well, the more heinous the offence against God, the more [...]

Yoga and Catholicism ~ a good mix ?

Can a Catholic practice yoga?
Sure a Catholic can practice yoga.
Is practicing yoga compatible with being a faithful Catholic ?
No, because yoga is a practice of meditation that has a thread of pantheism running through it. Pantheism being an ascribing to the belief that God is the Universe and that the Universe is God, [...]

Tragic Toy Story

Today is (un) interesting fact day.
When Wonderboy was 3 years old I bought him the above disgusting toy…it was either that or he would be pulling the legs off things (usually ladybirds, but he wasn’t fussy) for the rest of his life and that could have had serious consequences in the area of his love [...]

What Blogging Personality Have You ?

By way of alicia’s blog;

Your Blogging Type is Artistic and Passionate

You see your blog as the ultimate personal expression – and work hard to make it great.One moment you may be working on a new dramatic design for your blog…And the next, you’re passionately writing about your pet causes.Your blog is very important – and [...]

The Blue Hue

It’s become so popular nowadays to sport multicoloured wristbands that they may well have become a fashion accessory in teen culture, but even so, they still have an important message to send out, and by wearing them we can know that we are doing something small, but none the less contributory, to support the cause [...]

Something Profound for my 300th Post

Spousal Sanctification

Elena has a wonderful post on Marital spirituality and prayer, that offers a very moving insight into the intense intimacy that flows between spouses who pray together.
Perhaps it would be appropriate then to mention here a few articles and resources pertaining to Catholic marriage. Here is an article that might be of [...]

Dissing the Disability Durge and the Conception Perception.

I’ve been reading Julie’s post about Sharon’s baby and it made me think. So I thought I’d let off some pent up steam here rather than rant over there!
My nephew has Downs Syndrome and is severely disabled. He is 12 years old and can not talk. He knows a little sign language, but this [...]

23:5 Meme.

By way of Alicias blog; the 23:5 Meme
Rules:
1. Go into your archive.2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to it).3. Find the 5th sentence (or closest to it).4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
“If you really want to put Christ back into Christmas, think about spreading the Gospel [...]

Feast Day of Our Lady of Walsingham

I’ve posted about Our Lady of Walsingham many times here on the blog, so will keep this short and point you off in the direction to learn more about the great apparition of Our Lady, to a wealthy widower in Norfolk, England .
Interestingly the Anglican Community also have a chapel in Walsingham, and not wanting [...]

Confession Digresssion

I know that non Catholics often ask why we don’t confess ’straight to God and be done with it’ so I thought I’d explore that a little here as I’ll be shuffling along to Confession in about 30 minutes time and it’s kind of at the forefront of my mind right now.
Catholic’s would respond [...]

Literature Online

Literature is no longer the preserve of those with healthy Amazon accounts….now we less affluent mortals can partake of the Bronte Sisters, Dickens, Mark Twain without going further into the red! Read the complete and unabridged works of these great authors online.
Read from start to finish Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland‘ [...]

Hi-Ho-Hi-Ho… it’s up to bed we go!

So, I was lying on my son’s bed while he was saying his prayers this evening, and when he had finshed with the prayer to his Guardian Angel, he opens his eyes, turned to me suddenly and said;
“Mum, can I ask you something?“
Hmm, is this going to be some deeply profound theological question about [...]

Love is in the Air (or at least in this picture)

I was looking over my answers in the recent game of tag and I noticed that in response to the ‘celebrity crush’ questions I got to learn something about myself! I actually realised something about the men that I admitted to having something of a liking for, something that could be very useful in finding [...]

Shameless Plug

You may be aware of my card-making blog, but now I have created a foody blog too. I hope to have lot’s of recipes and disasters blogged before too long. As you may have noticed, I didn’t calculate my weightwatchers points intake today…Gayla, the answer to your question is on a [...]

6th week of the Novena Prayer to St. Martha.

It isn’t too late to join in with our Novena to St. Martha. Remember, light a candle and pray this prayer for 9 consecutive Tuesdays, remember also to ask St. Martha to intercede for the prayer of your heart. This may be the sixth Tuesday since we began the Novena here, but anyone anywhere can [...]

Anyone up for some Accountability ?

Today is the day I dig out my weightwatchers point’s sheet and get my flab back on track.
I can’t go on like this, for the obvious reason that I’m going to have a heart attack if I do.
Heart shaped chocolates are Satans ploy to disguise the artery clogging, cardiac inducing poison that they contain.
Satan [...]

Dum-Dum-Dum-Dum

I heard something really funny today;
“Marriage is a lot like banking”
“You put in, you take out…and sometimes you lose interest”