Gospel of the Day 30/5/11 & 31/5/11

31/5/11


Luke 1:39-56. 
During those days Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah,
where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.
When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit,
cried out in a loud voice and said, "Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy.
Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled."
And Mary said: "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord;
my spirit rejoices in God my savior.
For he has looked upon his handmaid's lowliness; behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed.
The Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name.
His mercy is from age to age to those who fear him.
He has shown might with his arm, dispersed the arrogant of mind and heart.
He has thrown down the rulers from their thrones but lifted up the lowly.
The hungry he has filled with good things; the rich he has sent away empty.
He has helped Israel his servant, remembering his mercy,
according to his promise to our fathers, to Abraham and to his descendants forever."
Mary remained with her about three months and then returned to her home. 


30/5/11


John 15:26-27.16:1-4. 
When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me.
And you also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
I have told you this so that you may not fall away. 
They will expel you from the synagogues; in fact, the hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think he is offering worship to God.
They will do this because they have not known either the Father or me. 
I have told you this so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you. "I did not tell you this from the beginning, because I was with you.

Sunday Snippets!

Well, it’s that time of the week again.  No, not the time to make fun of the Family Channel.  It’s Sunday Snippets time.  Where a bunch of Catholicy authors post a list of the Catholicy stuff that was on their Catholicy blog that week.  (If you haven’t noticed - which is very hard - I’ve created a new word, Catholicy.  It means the same as the adjective Catholic, but it’s kind of cute sounding. (so "I am a Roman Catholicy”doesn’t work, but that is a Catholicy person does.))  (Yet further proof that I shouldn’t blog at night.)    ...Anyway, since I missed last weeks Sunday Snippets,  I’m going to have some of my posts from then on the list this week as well.  Drumroll please    -_-_-O  Here it is:

A New Author! (ish)  All about a new author on this blog. (in a way)
Weekly Writing Corner  An idea I had.  (Name subject to change)
Homeschooling Buisnesses  Buisnesses by Homeschoolers
Captivenia 2011 register now!  A wonderful Mother & daughter summer camp by the wife of the person in charge of:
Arcatheos 2011 register now!  A wonderful Father and son summer camp, where the dads dress up as bad guys, and the kids fight them with foam weapons and water ballons.

and of course:

Gospel of the Day 28/5/11
Gospel of the Day 26/5/11, and 27/5/11
Gospel of the Day 25/5/11

Gospel of the Day 28/5/11

John 15:18-21. 
If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first.
If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you. 
Remember the word I spoke to you, 'No slave is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

A New Author! (ish)

A new author as joined my blog.  In a way.  The ever wonderful Anne Therese will from time to time email me with stuff that she has written.  I will then post it under her name.  (meaning that I will say something like: "and now a story from Anne Therese." or something like that.)  If you have any stories or poems or...etc you would like published just put a comment in the comment box.

In other news, check out another blog from Anne Therese called The Truth.  It is...well..you'll have to go see it for yourself.  Well, nevermind then.  It has ceased to exist in this world...or any other for that matter.

Gospel of the Day 26/5/11, and 27/5/11

27/5/11


John 15:12-17. 
This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.
No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends.
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.
It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.
This I command you: love one another. 


26/5/11


John 15:9-11. 
As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.
I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. 

Weekly Writing Corner

Well, you may have noticed two new surveys.  They are for an idea I had called: The Weekly Writing Corner.  (Rest assured there will be a much catchier name shortly.)  The idea behind it is either one of two things.  Either I post a poem or an excerpt from a story or something else that I’ve written and then people put links to their blogs on it, (and maybe link back to me...)  or instead of that, they put the poems in the comment box.  That is the purpose of one of the surveys.  The other survey is...well..It speaks for itself.


On that note, here’s two poems: (one is an old one but with one line changed)


On Looking Out of a Window  (Because I wrote this while looking out of a window.)
Looking out of my window,
I see the rain as it falls,
I sit and watch in the silence,
As the day draws to a close.

It seems to speak in whispers,
Of a world I have never known,
And a girl who is waiting,
As the day draws to a close.

So I leave my post at the window,
my post in that dreary world,
And I go to my love who is waiting,
As the day draws to a close.


To Those Who Read the Previous Poem


Some people say I’m in love with a girl,
 who is tall and rather quite wide,
Others will say I’m in love with a girl,
 who is short round about knee-high,
The truth however is different than that,
The truth is I am in love with a cat.
P.S Actually that final line was untrue,
      However, that you probably knew.

On blogs and changes.

Sigh, so many blogs are changing constantly.  Like my sister's blog.  It used to be all one page, but now?  No, one page isn't good enough.  (Warning Monty Python reference approaching)

You know, when we were young we didn't have any of these fancy about me pages.  We had to make our blogs on one page.

(Next Yorkshireman:) Well, in my day we had it tough.  We didn't have any pages.  We didn't even have a computer  .We had to make our blogs on typewriters.

(Other Yorkshireman:) We used to dream of using a typewriter, would have been like Heaven to us.  No, we had to make due with sticks and dead leaves.

(Last Yorkshireman:) What type of leaves?
(Other Yorkshireman:) Maple.
(Last Yorkshireman:)......

Well you get the picture.  Actually, now that I think about it, that's the real reason for this post.  So that I could copy Monty Python.  No other reason at all.  Well then...um..

That's all for now!