I bet that got your attention during Lent! Not to worry…this “dessert” is completely licit ;-D Are you still looking for a few ideas as your family continues its Lenten journey? Drop by and say “Hi!” to Lacy at Catholic Icing for a real treat. A Lenten Blog Fair of sorts in the works…lots of [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Your Friday dessert…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged catholic icing, lenten blog fair on February 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Robin’s nest…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, nature study, wire bird nests on February 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Every spring we are greeted by the scratching, chirping and otherwise birdlike disturbance from a family of robins who annually take up residence within our kitchen wall… There is a gap in the siding which provides easy access for them. I’ve long tolerated their presence, and just haven’t been able to bring myself to close [...]
The bomb that fizzled…population bomb, that is!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged demographic bomb, overpopulation myth on February 24, 2010 | 4 Comments »
On Monday I received our first video shipment from Pius Media…Demographic Bomb – demography is destiny. This documentary is the companion piece to Demographic Winter – the decline of the human family. Like its predecessor, it dispels the many myths that have fueled the so-called “Population Bomb” theory by illuminating the many inaccuracies, unfulfilled prophecies [...]
A busy mom’s daybook…blessed Lent to you!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged lent, nature study, simple woman's daybook on February 22, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Visit Peggy at The Simple Woman for more Daybook entries! FOR TODAY – February 22nd, 2010 Outside my Window….a light mist of rain, heavy fog obscuring the tree-line and melting snow. Still a vast vista of white, but now it is taking on a dirtier, dingier hue. Temperatures are climbing towards 40 and we are [...]
From death to life…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged inspiration, prayer request on February 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
So many amazingly wonderful revelations at today’s Mass…I’d love to share them all, but for now I’ll share this, recalling from my memory as best as I’m able: Our sweet priest is a great lover of antiquities. No small wonder…he is the founder of the Holy Family Jubilee Pontifical Museum. This museum is dedicated to [...]
Break your heart…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged chicken ala carte video, hunger, lenten reflection on February 20, 2010 | 3 Comments »
…and make you think. Living a life of such ease and plenty, it’s so easy to forget that “one man’s trash is one man’s treasure.” Please take the time to watch this 6 minute video…it truly put waste and gluttony into a new light for this family…something we all need during the Holy Season of [...]
Pocket-sized Stations of the Cross
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged lent activities, pocket-sized stations of the cross on February 19, 2010 | 5 Comments »
A lovely resource, particularly suited to a Friday afternoon in the first week of Lent: Pocket-sized, fold-out Stations of the Cross. Available on the Lent and Easter CD, at Catholic Artworks… Lenten blessings,
it’s all right…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged sunshine on February 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun, and I say it’s all right Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter Little darling, it feels like years since it’s been here Here comes the sun, here comes the sun and I say it’s all right… The Beatles – Abbey Road, 1969 Oh, yes…it’s [...]
More sunshine…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged crown of thorns, lenten calendar, lenten devotions on February 16, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Another happy note: I’ve finally set up our February liturgical display. I missed the entire month of January. It’s good to be back on track and I’m actually looking forward to the Holy Season of Lent! That nifty Lenten calendar can be found here at Catholic Icing. Thanks, Lacy! Instructions for the crown of thorns [...]
Sunnier on the inside…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged encouragement, suffering on February 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Ah, friends…thank you so much for your prayers, letters of encouragement, etc. Though all is cloud and gray around the house…mounds of snow several feet high and wind are causing near white-out conditions on the outside, I’m feeling ever-so-much sunnier on the inside. Those dark clouds are slowly passing, and I’m making friends with suffering. [...]
Ruffled feathers…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cardinal, photography, poetry on February 10, 2010 | 7 Comments »
A bright splash of color on a windy, gray and white February day…I’m so glad that “red bird came all winter…” Red Bird Red bird came all winter firing up the landscape as nothing else could. Of course I love the sparrows, those dun-colored darlings so hungry and so many. I am a God-fearing feeder [...]
A good woman…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged inspiration, quote on February 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
h/t to Colleen Hammond for this lovely quote: A woman’s heart should be so lost in God that a man needs to seek Him in order to find her. Blessings,
When words fail…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged snow pics on February 8, 2010 | 6 Comments »
…pictures have to suffice. My words are nothing but lament of late…lament for suffering, for hunger, for household inconveniences, for isolation…they tell the tale of post-surgical depression. So…rousing myself to stand on both front and back porch, I leave you with a few pretty pictures of this morning’s snow and fog…and branches etched in delicate [...]
Snowed in…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ohio, snow on February 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Literally. Snow drifts against the backdoor make it impossible to open…I’m so thankful for a teenage boy who will brave the 35 mph wind gusts and sub-freezing temperatures to shovel it away! It’s so incredibly gusty and cold that I took these pictures from inside the house…my big guy lifted the screens so I could [...]
A not-so-busy mom’s daybook…Friday edition
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged a busy mom's daybook on February 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Visit Peggy at The Simple Woman for more Daybook entries! FOR TODAY – February 5th, 2010 Outside my Window….a mad swirl of enormous white flakes. Ten to twelve inches of snow in our forecast. Oh, that this were two months earlier…I’m so ready for spring. For daffodils and daisies. For soft, green grass and the [...]
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Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness of my understanding.
Take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, an obscurity of sin and ignorance.
Give me a keen understanding, a retentive memory, and the ability to grasp things correctly and fundamentally.
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I ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, Hear me.
From the desire of being esteemed,
Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being loved...
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That others may be loved more than I,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be esteemed more than I ...
That, in the opinion of the world,
others may increase and I may decrease ...
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