Feast Day of St. Foillan ~ 31st October

Today is the feast day of irish missionary St. Foillan. His two brothers, featured in the image above have also been declared saints. Together they established a monastery in Burgh Castle and did much missionary work in England [...]

Things that go bump in the night

As if to confirm my own recent observations about the state of the NHS, another survey  concludes that patients are more greatly at risk at night, between the hours of 10pm and 6am. 140,000 incidents have been recorded in one year alone! These incidents include surgery errors as well as falls, medication errors, patients toilet [...]

Feast Day of Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez – Jesuit Saint – 30th Oct

The Priest and author Fr. Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote the following poem in honour of St. Alphonsus’ holy life ~
Honour is flashed off exploit, so we say;
And those strokes once that gashed flesh or galled shield
Should tongue that time now, trumpet now that field,
And, on the fighter, forge his glorious [...]

Are tat’s all that?

I was reading something over at Lorna’s place that had me nodding my head in agreement. Now Lorna and I are poles apart on many things pertaining to faith issues, so it’s nice when we can agree, on anything really. LOL! And what is it that we agree on?
Tattoos. (though joking aside, [...]

Make-up Mouse

 
A friend emailed me this image and I thought it was hilarious! Though I’m not altogether sure if I wouldn’t prefer a mouse with a secret compartment for chocolate covered cherries ….
What would you hide in your mouse?

ST. NARCISSUS – OCTOBER 29th

“Narcissus lived in the second and early part of the third centuries. He was an old man when he was made bishop of Jerusalem. Narcissus [...]

Nurses to be given authority not to resuscitate patients

“Experienced nurses should have the authority to decide if patients should be resuscitated, according to new guidelines to health professionals.”
From personal experience and from the experiences of some of my friends and loved ones who have been hospitalised, I am all too well aware of the sorry state of nursing in the NHS in [...]

Christmas Card Competition

Gentle reminder that if you are interested in receiving a selection of my hand crafted Christmas cards to send to your friends and family, you only have to write in the com box of THIS post to be in with a chance. The competition closes on the 15th November to ensure [...]

Saints and Blessed’s ~ October 27th

St. Abban of Wexford (Irish, abbot, 6th century)
St. Abraham the Poor of Menuf (Egyptian, hermit, c. 377)
Bl. Antonia of Brescia (Italian, Dominican prioress, d. 1507)
Sts. Capitolina and Erotheis of Cappadocia (from Asia Minor [Turkish], wealthy woman and maid, martyred in 304)
St. Colman of Senboth-Fola [...]

Cardinals Call for Change after 40 years of Abortion

LONDON, OCT. 23, 2007- The presidents of the bishops’ conferences of England and Wales and Scotland say the scale of abortion in their countries is a source of anguish for everyone, regardless of creed or political convictions.
Cardinal Keith O’Brien, president of the bishops’ conference of Scotland, and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, president of the bishops’ conference [...]

Man sentenced for urinating on a dying woman

Oh, Lord, my God, forgive me, but I must admit to finding it incomprehensible to understand how this man can have been made in your image.

Please click this link then read the story and pray for the deceased and for the purpetrator and also for the onlookers who failed to act in the womans defence.
Lord, [...]

Credo Christian E-Cards

Just a reminder that at my other site, Credo Christian E-Cards, there are now 78 E-Cards to choose from, to send to your family and friends. Please don’t think that there has to be a special time or occassion to let someone know that you are thinking about them. You know yourself how [...]

St. Evaristus, Pope & Martyr ~ 26th October

A convert to Christianity and a faith filled Catholic, Evaristus thought himself unworthly of being Pope, but God’s will won out and in his 8 year rule Pope Evaristus’ love of the faith was like ripples on a pond, reaching across the lands so that a great many people converted to Catholicism. [...]

He’s growing up too fast!

 
I tried to bribe my cheeky son into sitting on my knee for a cuddle and he looked at me as if I was demented. There was a time when he wanted my attention perpetually and I had to prise him off my knee so that I could go to the bathroom….but it [...]

Blessed Richard Gwyn ~ October 25th

 
Richard was a Welshman who lived in the sixteenth century. Queen Elizabeth I ruled England and Wales. Because most people in Wales were still Catholic, the queen and her officials tried to crush the faith by cruel laws. Priests or people who were loyal to the Holy Father were put in prison. They were [...]

Dame Helen Mirren ‘disgusted’ by childbirth

 Mirren, who I had previously somewhat admired as an actress, has deprived herself of the blessing of children because the thought of childbirth disgusts her. I’m sure she believes that she is fulfilled, but how I pity her, because there is nothing, nothing, nothing so fulfilling, so incredible, so heartening, so rewarding as giving [...]

Credo Christian E-Cards – Jesus Christ, Saviour of the World

To send this image as an E-Card please go to my other site – Credo Christian E-Cards

St. Anthony Mary Claret

“When I see the need for Divine teaching and how hungry people are to hear it, I am atremble to be off and running throughout the world, preaching the word of God. I have no rest, my soul finds no other relief, than to rush about and preach.”
The Life of St. Anthony [...]

Feast Day of St. John of Capistrano

 

“Those who are called to the table of the Lord must glow with the brightness that comes from the good example of a praiseworthy and blameless life. They must completely remove from their lives the filth and uncleanness of vice. Their upright lives must make them like the salt of the earth for themselves and [...]

Why I could never be minimalist

….. because I am clutter – nutter.
My desk… wouldn’t you just know it, there is a plate of food next to the monitor…I had the munchies while perusing facebook!

One of our 3 Bookcases of Movies and Series (I tidied this one for the photo)

Books, glorious books….(this is nothing – there’s tonnes all over the [...]

Feast Day of St. Mello of Cardiff

“Saint Mello preached in Rouen to a crowd, and a young man who had gone up on a roof to hear him, fell and was killed by the fall. The apostle resurrected him at once, and several thousand persons became Christians, including the young man in question, who was afterwards ordained a priest and became [...]

“Archbishop of Canterbury urges re-think on abortion”

 ”Something has happened to our assumptions about the life of the unborn child.”
Sounds like he’s saying something, but he’s not really saying anything is he? I don’t think so, not really.    Thank God the Catholic Church speaks definitively on such matters. You either like what the Church says or you don’t, you live it [...]

About Emails

It’s been bought to my attention that I no longer have an email address on the blog for those who want to contact me privately. I have now rectified that. I’ve added my email address in the text box, over there on the right.
May I also please ask that those of [...]

Feast day of St. Paul of the Cross

 

Praying the Way of the Cross ~ with Saint Paul of the Cross

Cutting loose

This is a letter I’ve long wanted to write, but was worried that my genuine blog buddies would think this was aimed at them, so I didn’t…. please don’t asume this is about you, most of the people that I write this to, already know who they are (believe me, they know). I’m not [...]