Cardinal offers a ray of hope to potential (non homosexual) adoptive parents

Rob asked in the com box, what might happen if the Catholic Church in England and Wales is backed in to a corner over it’s adoption agencies being forced to allow the placement of children to homosexuals.
Reading back over Cardinal Cormac’s recent letter to the PM it would seem that the possible closure of all [...]

Blair Overules Church. Or does he?

The headlines are running something like this: ‘Blair overules the Church on Gay Adoption issue’.
Now let me see, God in one corner of the ring, Blair in the opposite corner…who will remain standing? Place your bets. I just don’t know how Blair can sleep at night. And this after all the speculation of [...]

U2-charist

When will the Church of England realise that these gimmicks won’t work?
“For Anglicans who still haven’t found what they’re looking for, the Church of England is staging its first “U2-charist” communion service — replacing hymns with hit songs by the Irish supergroup.”
Reminds me of the lyrics of another song, though this time by Elton John;

“Its, [...]

Adoption in the Catholic Church

You may have heard about the ‘Gay Adoption’ (no we aren’t up in arms wanting to adopt gay’s) hot issue over here in the UK right now. Cardinal Cormac has responded with a letter to the PM:
“What, then, is the problem? It is that to oblige our agencies in law to consider adoption [...]

Heavenly hugs

I know it’s impossible to actually love your children too much, but I sometimes wonder if I do. Sometimes, often in fact, my children just really ‘get me’ as opposed to them really ‘getting to me’. At these times I wish they were back in the womb where I felt I could [...]

Urgent Prayer Request

Just got back from RCIA where I was informed that one of my best friends ….who is also Fr. Peter’s wife, had a stroke this morning and was rushed to hospital. Fr. just came to the group to fill us in on everything. The next 48 hours are crucial, please remember Shirley [...]

Upon my heart

Please pray for the following intentions (and add your own in the com box so that I and my fellow bloggers may pray for your intentions also).
…. for Catherine.
…. for Jill and her husband, also for the soul of her father and the baby that she has recently miscarried.
…. for all my blog buddies, in [...]

Faulty thinking

Forgive me for not posting more recently. Life has been eventful of late, not least due to the presence of the delinquent adolescents afore mentioned, but also because to be truthful, I’ve needed some time to just gather my thoughts on what’s been happening. This whole situation (as outlines in the post below) [...]

Plea for Prayer

Please friends, pray for our safety. Last night the empty house next door that builders are in the process of working on was overrun with 15-20 antisocial youths until 2am last night. They battered in the protective safety meshing off the windows and were throwing building materials all over the place all through the [...]

Innocence Lost

Sometimes children should not be heard. My dear son came home and informed me that he’d had a horrible day at school.
“Why, what happened today?”, I asked him.
He replied, “I learned all about sperm in my science lesson”.
There are some things you don’t want to hear your 11 year old say.

Into the Bible

Tell me, when was the last time you picked up the Good Book? Perhaps you read daily, but then maybe you don’t.
Sometimes we convince ourselves that there isn’t enough time to read God’s Word. I know, I’m one of those people. But I also know that whenever I do, God has something to [...]

Home-Girl

Howdi folks!
Hope you’re all having a great day. I’ve been taking some pictures of my recent handmade cards, feel free to take a look at ‘em. If you look down the length of the page you can see just how basic my cards where when I first began cardmaking in 2005. [...]

I’ve been MEEEEEEEEEEEEEMED

AutumnRose has tagged me with the latest meme and how could I not comply with such a request when it’s all about my Faith?
1. Favorite devotion or prayer to Jesus. The Chaplet of Divine Mercy.
2. Favorite Marian devotion or prayer. To pray before Our Lady’s Chapel in the parish in which I worship. Here [...]

The blessing of being single.

As a survivor of domestic violence far be it from me to make light of serious marital difficulties, but seriously, did everyone not get what they wanted for Christmas? Today is apparantly the busiest day of the year for divorce lawyers. How scary is that? Despite reading this I do however still have [...]

Capital Punishment is a Crime

I just have to get this off my chest. I do not agree with capital punishment. There, I said it. I can appreciate why their are death penalty supporters, really I can. I just don’t agree with them. In light of recent events, namely the murder of Saddam Hussein…and [...]

I-poddit, I-soddit

Hi folks! Today I went in to work. That’s all. Well, that’s not all but it’s taken up most of my day from 9 am to 5pm and since it’s only now 8pm ish there’s not a lot else that I have done. Wonderboy has spent the day with his Dad today [...]

I propose

I know I said I was going to shelve my daydreaming, but my daughter showed me this the other day and if anything has the wow factor then it’s this!
What a guy…this chappie spent three months making an animation for his beloved and then secretly arranged for it to be shown at a drive-through cinema [...]

Happy Christmas STILL!

Hey there folks and how you doing?
Just a little update about Wonderboy, both his Dad and I joined forces (a rare thing indeed) and took our son to the doctor together yesterday. His fourth appointment in less than a month saw a prescribed change in his inhalers, in the way in which he uses [...]

Happy New Year

To one and all I wish you a happy, healthy and faith-filled New Year. May your burdens be light and your blessings be many, and if it doesn’t quite turn out that way then may God give you the strength that you need to endure your trials.
For myself, I make no resolutions, but I [...]