Entries from January 2006

January 30, 2006

I’m a good girl I am!

The Movie Of Your Life Is An Indie Flick

You do things your own way – and it’s made for colorful times.Your life hasn’t turned out how anyone expected, thank goodness!
Your best movie matches: Clerks, Garden State, Napoleon Dynamite

If Your Life Was a Movie, What Genre Would It Be?
By way of Happy Catholic

January 30, 2006

Sign on the line

put down your name and end the shame of supporting evil
By way of Moneybags

January 30, 2006

What a crock!

Americans call them ‘crock pot’s’, we British know them to be ’slow cookers’. Who cares about a few such differences when the object does the same thing in both countries?I have just christened (okay, that’s a very non catholic statement… I should probably use the word, ‘baptised’) the slow cooker. I’ve had it for 6 [...]

January 30, 2006

Love Matters

American Life League
www.all.org

Elliot Institute (post-abortion info)
www.afterabortion.org

Feminists for Life
www.feministsforlife.org

Genocide Awareness Project
www.cbrinfo.org

Hope After Abortion
www.hopeafterabortion.com

Human Life International
www.hli.org

LifeAction Advocates
www.prolife.org

Life Dynamics
www.ldi.org

National Right to Life Committee
www.nrlc.org

Overpopulation Myths
www.pop.org

Priests for Life
www.priestsforlife.org

Pro-Life Action League
www.prolifeaction.org

Pro-Life America
www.prolife.com

The Ultimate Pro-Life Resource
www.prolifeinfo.org

Unborn Jesus site & devotions
www.unbornjesus.com

Vida Humana Internacional
www.vidahumana.org

January 28, 2006

What kind of ’soul’ are you?

You Are a Peacemaker Soul

You strive to please others and compromise anyway you can.War or conflict bothers you, and you would do anything to keep the peace.You are a good mediator and a true negotiator.Sometimes you do too much, trying so hard to make people happy.
While you keep the peace, you tend to be secretly [...]

January 28, 2006

The Church of the Future

In view of recent comments regarding teenage purity, I thought I’d share a few links that that may be of interest to our teens, they’re not just about purity, so I hope that they find these resources useful and enjoyable :)
The pure love club

Lifeteen

Disciples Now

Youth Apostles
[...]

January 27, 2006

By way of Alicia (click this)

Your 2005 Song Is

by Gorillaz
“Love forever love is free.Let’s turn forever you and me.”
In 2005, you were loving life and feeling no pain.

What Hit Song of 2005 Are You?

January 26, 2006

It’s all good

I don’t know how many of you are aware of my/our endeavour to read the Bible in 90 days from cover to cover…but I recently came across an alternative which I found rather interesting; reading the Bible in a year! (and here’s another one that Moneybags discovered) I should imagine it would be much [...]

January 26, 2006

Not Dead Yet.

“It’s the ultimate form of discrimination to offer people with disabilities help to die without having offered real options to live.”

-Diane Coleman,founder of Not Dead Yet

January 26, 2006

It’s all love, love, love

“For most of history there has been, for all peoples, a great many taboos around sex. All the great religions of the world have deemed sex as sacred and surrounded it with every kind of prohibition and taboo, as indeed has virtually every culture until recently. In Jesus’ time, for example, adultery was punishable by [...]

January 25, 2006

What car are you?

I’m an Audi TT!

You’re not the fastest, nor the most nimble, but you’re cute and you have style. You’re not intensely competitive, but when you pass by, everyone turns to look.
Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.
By way of Happy Catholic

January 25, 2006

Good things come to those who wait…

The Holy Fathers First Encyclical!

January 24, 2006

And the groom wore black…upon his heart.

Jimmy has it covered.
God Bless.

January 24, 2006

Feast Day of St. Francis de Sales

Truly, truly, what a suprise it was to me to discover that today is the feast day of this great saint! Only two day’s ago I was singing his praises after my first introduction to him proved to be a absolute revelation.
More on St. Francis de Sales here
It seems only fitting then to continue with [...]

January 23, 2006

Blog Template Change

Well, they say a change is as good as a rest, and it doesn’t look likely that I’ll be doing much resting in the forseeable future!
Whaddyathink?
I already had this design for my audio blog and was well fed up with all the problems with the old template design, that arose for anyone viewing without Firefox.
Let [...]

January 22, 2006

St. Francis’ Letters to a Wife and Mother

I purchased a little gem of a booklet after Mass this morning. Entitled ‘Letters to a Wife and Mother’, the book is based upon correspondence between St. Francis de Sales and his cousin, Madeleine de la Flechere. St. Francis was her spiritual advisor, and this series of corresspondance was spread over a period of [...]

January 22, 2006

On a crisp January Morning

These pics were taken rather hastily (before my battery died!) as we walked through the woods yesterday morning. I leaned against that very fence and prayed an ‘Our Father’ on my way back up…partly because I could scarcely breath, and partly because I was in awe of God. Fear of the Lord, awe of the [...]

January 21, 2006

Part One – Why I hate to Date.

Jean over at Catholic Fire asked me to define the characteristics I hope to find in my future spouse, as a result of reading my answers to a meme. For a while I’ve been considering posting on the topic of relationships, but didn’t know quite where to start, so thanks Jean for the gentle nudge!
This [...]

January 20, 2006

The Jean Meme

From Jean at CatholicFire
What were three of the dumbest things you have done in your life?1) Allowing myself to put my own fear before my trust in the Lord.2) Believing myself unlovable to God.3) Beleiving myself unlovable to the whole world.
At the current moment, who has the most influence in your life?
The Blessed Trinity.
If [...]

January 18, 2006

We are family, I got all my sisters with me…and brothers…

Interestingly our CaFE RCIA programme has just begun a new course. This series of dvd ‘talks’ is given by Professor of Theology at the Catholic University of Dallas, Texas, Dr. Marcellino D’ambrosio.
The reason that Tuesday evenings ‘talk’ was especially interesting to me was because of my recent reading of Genesis as [...]

January 18, 2006

Four this, four that

March Hare has tagged me to do the latest meme, so before I forget (as I am prone to do)
Four Jobs I’ve Had in My Life:

Secretary
bakery assistant
Portrait photographer for Olan Mills
Parish Secretary for the Catholic Church

Four Movies I [...]

January 18, 2006

To the dentist’s chair I go

AAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Prayers would be appreciated!

January 16, 2006

Welcome Home!

Owen and his family swam the Tiber and crossed from the dark side, yesterday!
What joyful news this is. As a convert to Catholicism myself, I am particularly encouraged and heartened by the journeys of others as they pursue the course of Truth.
May God Bless Owen and his family!

January 16, 2006

Say cheese!

How could I have forgotten to post this.
God Bless.

January 16, 2006

In the beginning.

Well, we’re all still plodding along on our journey through the Bible in 90 day’s. It’s been positively addictive thus far. I never would have thought it possible to read through the Pentateuch with relish (not the edible kind -though I’ve snacked a fair bit while reading I must confess ;)
Genesis was highly readable. Exodus [...]