Living Without School: Check out these blogs...

Monday, January 15, 2007

Check out these blogs...

Thomas and Anthony are writing novels and putting chapters on their blogs. Have a read - leave a comment! (BTW, I am not proof reading their chapters so any errors are theirs alone! lol!).

Cindy and I are still working out - check out our fitness blog if you feel so inspired.

And this blog consists of chapters of Maria Von Trapp's Book "Around the Year with the Trapp Family."

Finally, read Are Catholic Blogs an Occasion of Sin? Hmm.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: That article was very interesting and certainly gives me something to ponder today. We are certainly in trouble if I am to consider myself a guardian of language. I would disagree with the clergy issue, however, I haven't seen that on any blogs I read.; 11:56 pm
Margaret in Minnesota said...: I have book-marked this article to come back to, though I will say I was initially put off a bit by the "I take myself very seriously" photo of the guy at the top!; 12:14 am
Suzanne Temple said...: Leonie, I tried to add my link for the fair, but could not find an email address for you and so I just added it to the comments on the fair below. I didn't want you to miss it. Hope it isn't too late.

www.blessedamongmen.blogspot.com; 12:15 am
Anonymous said...: Well, Leonie, I think he did a good job in raising the issue. I know I don't fall into all the traps he mentioned, but certianly do fall into a few.

Actually I had recently resovled to continue to cut back on how many and which blogs I visit and seek quality both in information content and relationship.

I also resolved to do this with email and for every min I spend on line to make a minute to reach out IRL. (make that phone call instead of making that email)

I don't think Catholics should NOT blog, but I think like all other venues in life, we need to think about the occasions of sin to which it might bring us.

fwiw.

Thanks for the article!; 12:41 am
Anonymous said...: Oopps.. that we me above! Sometimes blogger won't let me sign in.. you thought i was being a psuedo- poster I bet! lol

Cindy; 12:42 am
Leonie said...: Margaret, I agree - I think the writer and the blogger take themselves way too seriously! The whole blog does. :-(

Basically, I don't think we bloggers should be "guardians of the language" - there is a difference between formal and informal language, isn't there?

And, to be honest, I don't see the purpose of my blog to be the bastion of orthodoxy ( con, neo-con, trad or whatever label the original writer may like to attach - I hate labels).

It is just a means of sharing our life with family and friends. I also meet new friends along the way.

This can hardly be " an occasion of sin" - unless I neglect other things. Hah! As if I could! I have too many other things to do! :-); 10:49 am

Prayer of Consecration of St. Maximilian Kolbe

O Immaculata, Queen of Heaven and earth, refuge of sinners and our most loving Mother, God has willed to entrust the entire order of mercy to thee. I, N___, a repentant sinner, cast myself at thy feet humbly imploring thee to take me with all that I am and have, wholly to thyself as thy possession and property. Please make of me, of all my powers of soul and body, of my whole life, death and eternity, whatever most pleases thee. If it pleases thee, use all that I am and have without reserve, wholly to accomplish what was said of thee: "She will crush your head," and, "Thou alone have destroyed all heresies in the whole world."

Let me be a fit instrument in thine Immaculate and merciful hands for introducing and increasing the maximum in all the many strayed and indifferent souls, and thus help extend as far as possible the blessed Kingdom of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus. For wherever thou enters, one obtains the grace of conversion and growth in holiness, since it is through thy hands that all graces come to us from the most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

V. Allow me to praise thee O Sacred Virgin.
R. Give me strength against thy enemies.

Prayer of St Bonaventure

Pierce, O most Sweet Lord Jesus, my inmost soul with the most joyous and healthful wound of Thy love, with true, serene, and most holy apostolic charity, that my soul may ever languish and melt with love and longing for Thee, that it may yearn for Thee and faint for Thy courts, and long to be dissolved and to be with Thee.Grant that my soul may hunger after Thee, the bread of angels, the refreshment of holy souls, our daily and supersubstantial bread, having all sweetness and savor and every delight of taste; let my heart ever hunger after and feed upon Thee, upon whom the angels desire to look, and may my inmost soul be filled with the sweetness of Thy savor; may it ever thirst after Thee, the fountain of life, the fountain of wisdom and knowledge, the fountain of eternal light, the torrent of pleasure, the richness of the house of God.May it ever compass Thee, seek Thee, find Thee, run to Thee, attain Thee, meditate upon Thee, speak of Thee, and do all things to the praise and glory of Thy name, with humility and discretion, with love and delight, with ease and affection, and with perseverance unto the end.May Thou alone be ever my hope, my entire assurance, my riches, my delight, my pleasure, my joy, my rest and tranquility, my peace, my sweetness, my fragrance, my sweet savor, my food, my refreshment, my refuge, my help, my wisdom, my portion, my possession and my treasure, in whom may my mind and my heart be fixed and firmly rooted immovably henceforth and for ever. Amen.