O God, come to my aid.O Lord, make haste to help me.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Psalm 56 (57) Morning prayer in time of affliction Have mercy on me, [...]
Entries from February 2007
February 28, 2007
Thursday of the first week of Lent
February 28, 2007
Wednesday of the First Week of Lent
O God, come to my aid.O Lord, make haste to help me.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,world without end.Amen.
Psalm 35 (36)The sinner’s wickedness; God’s goodnessEvil whispers to the sinner in the depths of his heart: the [...]
February 27, 2007
Journeying through Lent.
Sometimes I forget that there are many thousands of miles between some of my blog readers and me…I forget too that you don’t all live in my head and know what I’m doing every minute of the day (WOW! I wish I didn’t live in my own head sometimes -it’s a screwy place [...]
February 27, 2007
The Lenten Meme
Breugel’s ‘Procession to Calvery’
I’ve been memed by Jean!
What is your favorite Sorrowful Mystery?
The Carrying of the Cross, the Fourth sorrowful mystery. Because Christ bore the weight of the cross, the weight of my sin, but also because in reflecting on Christ carrying his cross, I am better able to appreciate the crosses I [...]
February 27, 2007
Tuesday of the 1st week of Lent
O God, come to my aid.
O Lord, make haste to help me.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.
Psalm 94 (95)
A call to worship
Come, let us rejoice in the Lord, let us acclaim God our salvation.
Let [...]
February 26, 2007
First Monday of Lent
O God, come to my aid.O Lord, make haste to help me.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,world without end.Amen.
Psalm 5A morning prayer for helpLet my words come to your ears, O Lord: hear my sighs.Listen to [...]
February 25, 2007
Morning Prayers for the First Sunday of Lent.
O God, come to my aid.O Lord, make haste to help me.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,world without end.Amen.
Psalm 62 (63)
Thirsting for God
O God, you are my God, I wait for you from the dawn.My soul [...]
February 24, 2007
Miracle baby
As blogged by Alicia also:
“The world’s most premature living baby, born at 21 weeks and six days, is headed home after spending four months in a neonatal intensive care unit, Baptist Children’s Hospital in Miami announced today. “
And to think, that someone was searching my blog for possible advice on how to abort a [...]
February 24, 2007
Morning Prayer – The Saturday after Ash Wednesday
O God, come to my aid.O Lord, make haste to help me.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,world without end.Amen.
Psalm 91 (92)Praise of God, the Creator
It is good to praise the Lord, and to sing psalms to [...]
February 23, 2007
Morning Prayer – Commemoration of Saint Polycarp, Bishop, Martyr
Blessed First Friday after Ash Wednesday! How are you all doing as we make these first steps into Lent? So often we start off with resolute spirit, determined and focussed, only to allow ourselves to become distracted and sluggish further along this lenten pathway. We lose sight of the prize. We lose [...]
February 22, 2007
The Feast of the Chair of St. Peter the Apostle
The Feast of the Chair of St. Peter the Apostle
O God, come to my aid.O Lord, make haste to help me.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,world without end.Amen.
Psalm 62 (63)Thirsting for GodO God, you are my [...]
February 21, 2007
Ash Wednesday
As you may recall, throughout Lent during 2006 I posted daily morning prayers and readings, I am going to continue with this as I believe it was of benefit to many others as well as me (or so you said, and I believe you!).
I’m hoping to add devotional posts to the mix too this time [...]
February 19, 2007
DIY ABORTION
It’s a sad day indeed, I just discovered that someone found their way to my blog by typing the following sentence into Google;
“do it yourself second term abortions”
Lord have Mercy!
Please pray for his person because unless they were researching for a paper or something, the likelihood is that this person is seeking information on how [...]
February 19, 2007
Alex Rocks and Chest infections suck big time
Do I have the most fabulous blogfriends or what? I asked Alexa how to make a beautiful signature for my post, because you know she is the Queen of html LOL! And what do I find in my com box upon arising? the finished product!
Thank you Alexa!
You can see my signature [...]
February 18, 2007
Rant on Paypal & QVC
If you ever try to sell anything on ebay, do yourself a favour and don’t tell your Dad that you have set up an ebay auction as he might just think it’s fun to bid….and come dangerously close to winning the items for sale that neither you nor he wants.
Seriously, I doubt I’ll ever sell [...]
February 16, 2007
Update, still fed up, but your prayers are holding me up
Update on Saturday Night:
Thought I’d update the post to save writing a new one. Tonight a gang of 14 youths were messing about directly outside my house. Now my house is on the road, and my car is a hands breadth away from my house, and these guys were leaning on/sitting on the [...]
February 16, 2007
Boys. Huh!
Funny #1
I was getting a little irritated yesterday as my children slobbed around while I was busy housekeeping and cooking.
My son, within earshot was the nearest to me when I said, rather disgruntedly:
“Huh! Well I thought being Valentine’s Day you would have been a bit more considerate and shown your love for me [...]
February 15, 2007
Friendship
A friend is someone who reaches for your hand….and touches your heart….
February 14, 2007
Time for a change?
I’m keeping the old template stashed away just in case I fancy changing back sometime, but I kind of find this one a little more mellow, what do you think?
February 14, 2007
Happy Valentines Day!
If I speak in the tongues of men and angels,
but have not love,
I have become sounding brass or a tinkling symbol.
And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains,
but have not love, I am nothing.
[...]
February 13, 2007
Upon my heart
Please join me in prayer for the following intentions and add your own in the comments box if you would like us to pray for your intentions.
Lord, hear our prayers….
For Shirley
For the soul of Brenda Lyle, a well respected and fondly thought of catholic of our parish, who has gone to her eternal rest.
For all [...]
February 12, 2007
Catholic Youth Conference
Robert Kloska recently contacted me via email after reading my post on Fr. Larry, written 4 years or so ago and posted on the blog in 2004. Rather than repeat the contents of the email I’m going to just copy and paste the contents of the intial email and hope that it [...]
February 12, 2007
Contraception, Chasitity and Spousal Sexuality
I could frequently slap myself for being so incredibly underexposed to incredible catholic speakers, authors and proponants of the faith…can you believe that I had never until this day heard of the catholic convert, Elizabeth Anscombe a greatly respected British philosopher?
A woman after my own heart she opposed Britains involvment in WWII despite her [...]
February 10, 2007
Ban on Mothering Sunday Cards
A school in Wales is banning the making of cards in recognition of Mothering Sunday which will be on March 18th this year. Well, strictly speaking they can’t stop Mother’s Day happening, so they’re doing the next best thing, the headteacher is objecting to is the ‘insensitivity concerns’ of celebrating the vocation of motherhood [...]
February 8, 2007
Dribs and Drabs,snowy splodges and Ebay Auctions
Well what do you know, the children’s school was closed today due to heavy snowfall during the early morning hours. I awoke at 6.40am and it certainly hadn’t snowed to any great extent by that time, but the snow fell more heavily rather suddenly and as the time approached for us to leave [...]
