Tuesday, January 29, 2008

A Gaggle of Friends meme

CT and I made it up!

Rules:
Answer the questions! You can give a reason for the answer if you like. As for tagging people, you tag as many as you want or as little...minimum of one. There's no obligation to play.
Last of all, have fun!


1.First Saint you "met"?
Saint Francis of Assisi
(from watching Brother Sun and Sister Moon since Mom and Dad loved it so much)

2. Favorite Saint(s)?
Saint Therese of Lisieux and Saint Francis of Assisi

3. Patron saint for the year?
Saint Saturninus

4. Favorite book by a saint?
ack, why did we make it so hard!? Too many choices!!
Actually, I've yet to find one
CT's read more of them than I have

5. Saint book you are reading now?
Lots
The Interior Castle By Saint Teresa of Avila
Spiritual Childhood by Vernon Johnson
Confessions by Saint Augustine
The Story of a Soul by Saint Therese
and Saint Faustina's diary

6. Favorite movie of a saint?
Therese

7. Favorite Autobiography/Biography of a saint?
Haven't finished reading one yet :-(

8. Favorite novel/book of a saint?
The Joyful Beggar by Louis de Wohl

9. Saint (besides your favorites) you'd want to meet?
Saint Faustina

10. Saint you look to for help?
Saint Therese for advice in taking care of siblings and simplicity
Saint Paul for help in writing
and just any saint to talk to...

11.Favorite saint quote?
Several actually...but:
"He must increase, but I must decrease"
-Saint John


12. Favorite Holy Card?

Found Here!


Reminds me that Saint Therese knew what it was like to be our age.

13. Favorite story of a saint?
When Saint Therese was cleaning the choir, she saw something she really didn't like. A spider had made its home in the window sill...and she was supposed to clean it. Poor Therese, she didn't want to do it. Spiders...kind of creepy up close...crawly...and they have eight legs!?! Taking a deep breath, she swept the spider off the sill, dusted it across the floor as fast as she could, opened the door of the choir, swept it out, and quickly shut the door. Whew.

14. If you could go anywhere on a pilgrimage to a saint's homeland, where would it be?
Assisi

15. Any Blesseds or Venerables that you would like to become canonized?
hmmm....
Blessed Damien
Blessed Mother Marianne
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Blessed James
Venerable Thecla


Now the ever hardest part.
tagging...
Mom
Kaila
Joey
...and anyone else who is on the sidebar or elsewhere and wants to do it!!



Sunday, January 27, 2008

Book meme

Oh dear, sorry, you have to click on the pic to see it better...

One of the best kinds of memes there are, a book meme!

Thanks Aunty Esther!!! :-D
1) Which book do you irrationally cringe away from reading, despite seeing only positive reviews?
Anne of Green Gables
sorry...


2) If you could bring three characters to life for a social event (afternoon tea, a night of clubbing, perhaps a world cruise), who would they be and what would the event be?
Probably not hobbits if the event had food!
Frodo, Lucy Pevensie, and Cornflower to that musical thing friday since they seem to like music
or, at least I thought they did


3) (Borrowing shamelessly from the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde): you are told you can’t die until you read the most boring novel on the planet. While this immortality is great for a while, eventually you realise it’s past time to die. Which book would you expect to get you a nice grave?
A book attempting to teach me math. :P


4) Come on, we’ve all been there. Which book have you pretended, or at least hinted, that you’ve read, when in fact you’ve been nowhere near it?
Actually, I really haven't...
there are a lot of books unfinished though :-(


5) You’re interviewing for the post of Official Book Advisor to some VIP (who’s not a big reader). What’s the first book you’d recommend and why? (If you feel like you’d have to know the person, go ahead and personalise the VIP).
I'm horrible at advising
Pueo does a much better job, she'll most likely get the position :-)


6) A good fairy comes and grants you one wish: you will have perfect reading comprehension in the foreign language of your choice. Which language do you go with?
Latin, so school will be much easier and all those nice old texts will be scoured!!!


7) A mischievous fairy comes and says that you must choose one book that you will reread once a year for the rest of your life (you can read other books as well). Which book would you pick?
She already came!
LOTR


8) I know that the book blogging community, and its various challenges, have pushed my reading borders. What’s one bookish thing you ‘discovered’ from book blogging (maybe a new genre, or author, or new appreciation for cover art-anything)?
Nothing much actually...
or maybe new books from reading other's book meme answers?


9) That good fairy is back for one final visit. Now, she’s granting you your dream library! Describe it. Is everything leather bound? Is it full of first edition hardcovers? Pristine trade paperbacks? Perhaps a few favourite authors have inscribed their works? Go ahead-let your imagination run free.

Ok, ready?




The children’s room downstairs would be a good deal large. The carpet would have to be dark blue, it being the children’s room and all. In the middle would sprout a replica of a redwood tree, its base lined five feet high with bookshelves of new books. All around would contain shelves of adventures both classic and modern. The smaller children’s book shelves eventually progressing into taller ones as you walk clockwise around the room. In places not occupied with shelves, posters would be placed. Posters of book characters or scenes, and quotes of authors and books. In defiance to libraries that forbid swirly chairs, this one would have! Moreover, twirling in them would not be prohibited. Well, of course there would have to be tables, only these would be carved with familiar fairy tale scenes. In the last corner, would be set some more replicas of redwoods, only this time you could get inside. Once inside, a stairway would lead you into a small yet comfortable reading world of velvet “leaves” and paintings.
A room connecting would be lesser in size, but no less wonderful. Set to match all the containing books, I guess like an 18th century wealthy house would it be decorated. Yes, it’s the classic book’s room! Shelves would contain books fairly worn. As most worn books add to the effect their stories hold, they would have to be carefully handled. From high adventures on the sea, to the woe-begotten tales of drama, not one good classic would be left out. Big comfortable chairs provided, but no decorative vases, unfortunately. (the children’s room is next door!)
For all you manga lovers, (hahaha) there would be another room. Well, you’d have to fill it up to your liking, because I don’t know much about manga L (sorry)
The adult section would be to all adult’s liking and a coffee corner complete with spill-proof cups. (…and since most grown up bloggers already did this meme, no more can be said.)
Upstairs (yes, it has an upstairs!!) would be another three rooms. The non-fiction room would have its walls full of knowledge. Since the shelves would reach the roof, a side sliding ladder (wheee!!) would be included. A map containing the dewy decimal system explained in full would hang in an unoccupied wall. Otherwise, the room would be plainly filled with shelves and benches. Now up here, decorative vases can be placed.
The next, smaller room is also non-fiction, but contains CT’s and Mom’s favorite books. (guess what they are?) This room wouldn’t be complete without the proper paintings of friends and the above. Shelves would have carvings of famous scenes relating to the books. Oh, and the books would be bought from the Pauline Bookstore.
Last of all, would be the media room. It would have marble flooring and hard wood shelves of good songs of all kinds. DVDs and videos could be watched behind a secret panel. Finally, a piano would rest in one place, filling the rest of the room with sweet melodic sounds.
A library wouldn’t be complete without the ever helpful computers!
As for borrowing books, there’s no limit, and a month till the due date.
Library hours: Mon-Sat 6am to 9pm. Sundays closed
…and yes, you still need a library card.



All book lovers are henceforth tagged!

(there's another one later so...)

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Caught napping!

Finally...





Mahalo nui loa, Kaila!! :-D


The rules: By accepting this Excellent Blog Award, you have to award it to 10 more people whose blogs you find Excellent Award worthy. You can give it to as many people as you want but please award at least 10. Thank you out there for having such great blogs and being such great friends! You deserve this! Feel free to award people who have already been awarded…


Let's see...um...
Family and friends in the middle of the ocean : 7 (just in case you don't want to be named)
Newhousenewjob
Ms. Micki
Mrs. Bonnie

sorry if you've been nominated already....

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Feastday!


Happy Feastday of Blessed Marianne!


Her feastday is merrily celebrated here because she is one of our only two known saints. (she isn't a saint yet, but...)

CT posted more about her, and the Catholic Herald here has an article.

Picture found here!

Pro-Life March yesterday

Some people from yesterday :-)


Last person to post something about yesterday.
To see pictures of the event, see Mom's or Aunty Esther's posts!
There's a line in Dr. Seuss' book, Horton Hears a Who!
"A person's a person, no matter how small."
Well, to me it sounded like: a life is a life, no matter how small.


Saturday, January 19, 2008

Mahalo nui loa to Aunty Esther, Kaila, and Mom!!

k, now I'll nominate...
All my homeschooled blogging buddies in the middle of the ocean! :-D

Monday, January 14, 2008

Guess what week it is?

Picture from Patron Saint's Index!
Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori is the patron of vocations

It's National Vocations Awareness week...and being one day late in posting, more than likely you know already! :-)
Well, the suggestions by our Director of Vocations (and you can find this here) were:

1. Pray for priests, deacons, and religious sisters and brothers.
Head on over to A Tribute to Our Priests for more and various links.
The Catholic Blog Directory has many many blogs by religious, more than 20 in fact!

2. Send a thank you card to a priest or consecrated person.
If you live over here, that wouldn't be too hard. Over here, we have the Daughters of St. Paul, Dominicans, Franciscans, Sisters of Saint Francis, Benedictines, and Carmelites. Those are only the only ones we've met, but there are sure to be much more!

3. Invite one of them to dinner.

4. Pray for more vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life

5. Consider a religious vocation for yourself

For the last one, Holy Vocations is a good blog to visit.

bit of an update...CT has some prayers on vocation, so please check them out too!

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Baptism Day

Picture from Patron Saint's Index


Father asked a simple question during his homily. "Do you know when your baptism day is?"
He was disappointed that only 6 (um, not including us...) people raised their hands.
So Father gave us an assignment. If you don't know when your baptism day is, find out!
We know when our birthdays are and we remember other special dates. We ought to remember a most important date though, the day of our baptism. The day we were free from original sin and members of the Church.


'Till the next Christmas season...




Picture found here!

Oh well, going to miss it...
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas season