Reading Barb’s post this evening really resonated with me. Often children fall out with their friends and make up the same day while we parents go on worrying about it. They have disagreements with one another about what game to play, who has the coolest toys etc… there are valuable lessons to [...]
Entries from June 2007
June 28, 2007
Supersoaker not so Super!
When your son calls you outside on a hot summers day, it could be because he wants to show you how many legs he’s pulled of a garden spider….or how he didn’t look where he was going and trod in something unpleasant….or then again, he might just want to take you by surprise so that [...]
June 27, 2007
Handcrafted Card Giveaway
Some of you may remember that at the beginning of June I started a ‘handcrafted card giveaway’. Well, I know I’m a day or so early on closing the draw but there hasn’t been a new entry to the draw for the last 14 days, so I figured that since I have other parcels [...]
June 25, 2007
Purgatory Ponderings
Purgatory is misunderstood not only by a great many Protestants, but also some Catholics and I hope that by the end of this post I have gone a little way to disproving that Purgatory is a nonsense and have helped to convey that not only is Purgatory Scriptural, but that that it actually makes [...]
June 20, 2007
The One True Church- The Catholic Church
Is there such a thing as One True Church?
Protestants dismiss the idea, Catholics may not even know what it is even though they are members of it. But yes, I do believe that there is such a thing and I’d like to explain why I believe that this is so.
Perhaps we should start by looking [...]
June 18, 2007
Hitchcockian Kid
The master of suspense has become a firm favourite of mine over the years and amongst my Hitchcock collection are The Birds ,Vertigo, Rope, North by Northwest, Rear Window, Notorious, Spellbound and my (possibly) absolute favourite, Rebecca.
I’m not the only member of the family who thinks Hitch is fab though. Yes, my discerning daughter [...]
June 15, 2007
Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at my parish
“When I was on pilgrimage in 1986 to the tomb of Margaret Mary, I asked, in the spirit of what has been handed down in the Church, that veneration of the Sacred Heart be faithfully [...]
June 13, 2007
Why Protestants can’t receive Communion in the Catholic Church
Since I began blogging nigh on 3 years ago I have encountered with some frequency, the topic of ‘closed’ communion in regard to the Catholic Church. In view of questions recently being asked on this same topic, I thought I’d write a post about it rather than attempt to post my response as [...]
June 12, 2007
Madness in the Midlands!
Some people see an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary in their toasted cheese sandwiches, others discover Jesus’ image in a ‘nacho pan’. Not to be outdone, when peeling the veggies for tea the other day….I found a ‘Spot, the Dog’ potato!
Isn’t it adorable? Okay, so his legs are missing but you can’t [...]
June 12, 2007
This ‘n’ That
My darling girl (pictured on the right) – in a Nativity Play approx 10 years ago.
Dear friends, my darling daughter is taking her GCSE in Religious Education this afternoon at 1.30pm. She is taking this particular examination a year early – all the other GCSE’s (and ‘A Level R.E) will be taken in [...]
June 10, 2007
The Solemnity of Corpus Christi
As many who came before me, I too was led to Catholicism through a lengthy period of discernment – since my conception, in fact – in which I would come to understand (eventually) that God was calling me to full communion with Him.
Much is said (bemoaned perhaps?) by non-Catholics about what is mistakenly interpretted to [...]
June 9, 2007
I’m outta here/I’m back!
image of The Virgin Mary and the Christ Child, taken while at Maryvale
Today is my last study day on the 2 year distance learning course in parish catechesis. We will have lectures on the last module (containing two coursebooks) to be completed in the next three months, the topics of which are;
Life in [...]
June 7, 2007
A God moment
cross on the hermitage at GlynliffonÂ
Have you ever suddenly had a God- moment? I’m sure you have. A moment in time when for absolutely no fathomable reason whatsoever, you hear (from God) what you are supposed to hear at the exact moment that you are supposed to hear it? Perhaps you’re [...]
June 4, 2007
Handcrafted Card Giveaway
In all my time of crafting, it has never occurred to me to do what I’m about to do….and that is, to have a giveaway of a selection of my handcrafted cards! Hence, I hereby invite you, dear friends, to enter my crafty little giveaway. Consider this my way of saying thank you [...]
June 4, 2007
This and That
Blogging/blog-reading may be light during the next few days, I have an essay, to start, finish and send off before Saturday (and I won’t be able to work on it on Tues, Wed or Fri or Sat) and no idea yet what I’m going to choose as a topic, out of the essay titles [...]
June 2, 2007
The new and improved Meme
The new and improved Meme is the “4 new x 2″ and it is a variation of the ‘eight things meme’ that I’ve been tagged with by the delightful Queen of Meme – Jean.
The rules: You have to share four things that were new to you in the past four years. Four things you learned [...]
June 2, 2007
Birthday Boy!
Thank you so much for your kind thoughts and best wishes for me on my birthday yesterday. I am so blessed to have become so grafted into such a wonderful wealth of friendship and though many of these friendships may well have begun online,they certainly didn’t stay there because now I have developed [...]
June 1, 2007
Birthday Girl
Happy Birthday to me, I’m a 103, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday to me!
So then, it’s my birthday :-)
I was working today so yesterday I took the children out for ice cream, which they enjoyed a lot – though Wonderboy regretted he’d chosen a tub of chocolate ice cream when he saw the size [...]
