...the new computer will HOPEFULLY be installed early next week. Monday is a holiday for us so I am hoping Tuesday or Wednesday.
I MISS YOU ALL!!!
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Thought of the Day
Thursday, 30 July 2009
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Hard drive crapped out
My hard drive has crashed. I am computerless. I am writing this from work. I have no idea when I will have a computer again and I cannot blog from work.
Those of you that have my email - I can still read those messages from work.
I shall return!
Angie
Those of you that have my email - I can still read those messages from work.
I shall return!
Angie
Friday, 17 July 2009
Honest Scrap Meme
I'm supposed to....
1) Say thanks and give a link to the presenter of the award. 2) Share "ten honest things" about myself. 3) Present this award to 7 others whose blogs I find brilliant in content and/or design, or those who have encouraged me. 4) Tell those 7 people that they've been awarded HONEST SCRAP and inform them of these guidelines in receiving it.
OK, here goes...
1- I still know all the lyrics to KISS songs pre-1980. Does that make me a bad Catholic?
2 - I hate bananas. I don't like the smell and I don't even like the way the peel feels. But I like banana bread. When I make it, it's the only time I REFUSE to lick the batter.
3 - I hate clutter but I hang onto stuff because I might need it someday or because I am fairly sentimental (for example if my great-aunt sent me a book (which I never read) back in 1972 I would be hard-pressed to part with it.) However, I am getting better at letting go of stuff.
4 - Being a very tactile person makes it practically impossible for me to have long hair and long fingernails. I did have longish hair all last winter but I was always twirling it and playing with it until my anxiety level got so high I had to get it cut. As for nails - I've had fake nails a number of times and always peel them off (very painful) within two weeks. If I grow them out on my own I can't keep my fingers out of my mouth. I am starting to think I have an oral fixation. When I was a baby I sucked my fingers (index and middle of left hand) until I was about 7. When I stopped doing that I started biting my nails. Then I smoked off and on for about 18 years. Now I am 57 pounds overweight. I also hate lipstick and foundation - I can't stand the way it feels on my face.
5 - I LOVE to talk about as much I love to write. However, I am much more eloquent on paper.
6 - I still think I will wake up one morning and magically I will be 57 lbs. thinnner.
7 - I am messy. My mom could always tell where I sat at the table because of the ring of crumbs around my chair. One particular habit of mine that drove her crazy was that if I ate an apple I would leave the core in the (clean) ashtray on the coffee table. After awhile it got to be a joke between us. Of course when she found the core it would already be brown - the bronze apple core. One year for Christmas a local gift store was selling wooden sculptures of fruit. They were very well done and painted realistically. There were apples, bananas, lemons, etc. However, when I spied the painted wooden apple core sculpture I HAD to buy it for my mom. Oh, she laughed and laughed when she opened that gift!
8 - I miss my kids so much. They live so far away that if I see them once a year I am lucky. I will be a virtual stranger to my future grandchildren and that is so painful to me I cannot even begin to describe it.
9 - My son is going to Afghanistan this Fall. I get chest pains just thinking about it.
10 - I wish I had more kids but I had such problems with my ex that if my second marriage had also failed I just could not envision dealing with yet another ex husband. I was not going to church at that time I married my second husband and in any case I was a card carrying liberal so any authentic Catholic teaching would have slide like water off a ducks back. And now I am too old to have more kids.
I am tagging the first seven people who read this entry.
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1) Say thanks and give a link to the presenter of the award. 2) Share "ten honest things" about myself. 3) Present this award to 7 others whose blogs I find brilliant in content and/or design, or those who have encouraged me. 4) Tell those 7 people that they've been awarded HONEST SCRAP and inform them of these guidelines in receiving it.
OK, here goes...
1- I still know all the lyrics to KISS songs pre-1980. Does that make me a bad Catholic?
2 - I hate bananas. I don't like the smell and I don't even like the way the peel feels. But I like banana bread. When I make it, it's the only time I REFUSE to lick the batter.
3 - I hate clutter but I hang onto stuff because I might need it someday or because I am fairly sentimental (for example if my great-aunt sent me a book (which I never read) back in 1972 I would be hard-pressed to part with it.) However, I am getting better at letting go of stuff.
4 - Being a very tactile person makes it practically impossible for me to have long hair and long fingernails. I did have longish hair all last winter but I was always twirling it and playing with it until my anxiety level got so high I had to get it cut. As for nails - I've had fake nails a number of times and always peel them off (very painful) within two weeks. If I grow them out on my own I can't keep my fingers out of my mouth. I am starting to think I have an oral fixation. When I was a baby I sucked my fingers (index and middle of left hand) until I was about 7. When I stopped doing that I started biting my nails. Then I smoked off and on for about 18 years. Now I am 57 pounds overweight. I also hate lipstick and foundation - I can't stand the way it feels on my face.
5 - I LOVE to talk about as much I love to write. However, I am much more eloquent on paper.
6 - I still think I will wake up one morning and magically I will be 57 lbs. thinnner.
7 - I am messy. My mom could always tell where I sat at the table because of the ring of crumbs around my chair. One particular habit of mine that drove her crazy was that if I ate an apple I would leave the core in the (clean) ashtray on the coffee table. After awhile it got to be a joke between us. Of course when she found the core it would already be brown - the bronze apple core. One year for Christmas a local gift store was selling wooden sculptures of fruit. They were very well done and painted realistically. There were apples, bananas, lemons, etc. However, when I spied the painted wooden apple core sculpture I HAD to buy it for my mom. Oh, she laughed and laughed when she opened that gift!
8 - I miss my kids so much. They live so far away that if I see them once a year I am lucky. I will be a virtual stranger to my future grandchildren and that is so painful to me I cannot even begin to describe it.
9 - My son is going to Afghanistan this Fall. I get chest pains just thinking about it.
10 - I wish I had more kids but I had such problems with my ex that if my second marriage had also failed I just could not envision dealing with yet another ex husband. I was not going to church at that time I married my second husband and in any case I was a card carrying liberal so any authentic Catholic teaching would have slide like water off a ducks back. And now I am too old to have more kids.
I am tagging the first seven people who read this entry.
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Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Thursday, 9 July 2009
From Adam's rib - not women's lib
She showed a picture of Eve stepping forth from Adam's rib. That has always bothered me (my 1970s feminist roots were showing.) However...she explained that Eve was born out of Adam's side just as Holy Mother Church was born of the wound in Christ's side.
21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken." 24 Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed. Genesis 2
That is SO beautiful!
I had never thought of it that way before. And then I thought "of course - it's so obvious!" And then I chided myself for forgetting that the Bible is not written as a literal history of mankind.
How providential that I turned to EWTN at that moment. It made me fall in love with being a Catholic Christian all over again!
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Wednesday, 8 July 2009
I'm a fan of....
Phil Liggett
Hearing his voice every morning reminds me that
in a few days I will be another year older.
Signed,
Angie, Pres. of the Phil Liggett Fan Club - Liggett's Ladies
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Breaking news - non-Catholic PM accepts Holy Communion
Read the story here.
It is my understanding that a non-Catholic CAN receive Communion if their own church is not available and permission has been sought and granted from the priest. This happened to my ex-MIL back in 1986. Perhaps the priest was wrong or the regulations have changed since then but at that time it was permissable.
What say you?
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It is my understanding that a non-Catholic CAN receive Communion if their own church is not available and permission has been sought and granted from the priest. This happened to my ex-MIL back in 1986. Perhaps the priest was wrong or the regulations have changed since then but at that time it was permissable.
What say you?
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The Prayer of Oscar Romero...
even though he didn't write it....
It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work. Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying that the Kingdom always lies beyond us.
No statement says all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
No confession brings perfection.
No pastoral visit brings wholeness.
No program accomplishes the Church’s mission.
No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about.
We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.
This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.
It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own.
It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work. Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying that the Kingdom always lies beyond us.
No statement says all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
No confession brings perfection.
No pastoral visit brings wholeness.
No program accomplishes the Church’s mission.
No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about.
We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.
This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.
It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own.
Hi there!
I'm still alive - just checking in. I had to spend the last few days writing up a report and recommendations regarding a renovation that a few people in the parish want to undertake. I really don't think that 7 % of the parish can dictate what they want done and have other people pay for it.
In any case - I am on hiatus from parish life (except for Mass and baking for funerals) until Septemeber. I will be spending the next 15 days continuing to muck out my house in anticipation of our visitors. And I am really looking forward to seeing my kids in August!
Love, Angie
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In any case - I am on hiatus from parish life (except for Mass and baking for funerals) until Septemeber. I will be spending the next 15 days continuing to muck out my house in anticipation of our visitors. And I am really looking forward to seeing my kids in August!
Love, Angie
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Sunday, 5 July 2009
Rose's baptism
(not the real family)
There was a baptism this morning. One parent is not Catholic and the other is but I have only seen her at Mass a few times. However, there are 3 Masses every weekend so perhaps she is going at different times than I am. The godparents are nominal Catholics. The last time they came to Mass was Easter. And I don't mean this year.
Father really put the screws to them!
He asked the mother why she was bringing her daughter to Mass today (in front of the packed church - probably 300 people at least!) She said she wanted her daughter to know God blah blah blah. He asked her a couple more questions until she said, "is this a test?"
Yes, Dearie, it is.
Father then instructed the godparents. He told them they were not there to look after Baby. They were there to look after the parents. To phone them up after Mass if they weren't there to ask where they were. I couldn't help it - Hubby got an arm jab - the godparents wouldn't know if the parents weren't there because they don't go to Mass!
At the same time there are two points I try to remember. My parents didn't take me to Mass but the grace of my baptism, that they arranged, lit a little flame in my soul. It took 38 years for it to become a raging inferno but it has to start somewhere. The second point is that perhaps today a little seed was planted in these young parents. Maybe they saw or heard something or were challenged in some way to pursue their faith more deeply. I know I was praying for them.
When you see new parents with their freshly baptized baby make a point to greet them, to invite them, to engage with them. We need to strengthen the domestic church. If that little baby is going to grow up to know God through the example of his or her parents then we need to parent them.
Perhaps we are all called to be godparents.
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Saturday, 4 July 2009
Still alive!
Just letting you know I won't be online much over the next few weeks. I am doing some minor home renovations and some deep cleaning before we have visitors arriving on July 24.
See you soon!
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See you soon!
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Thursday, 2 July 2009
I do love crowns!
click to enlarge
I am excited to announce that
Lady Liberty's crown will
be open to the public once more!
No matter how many times I see this statue
the thrill is always the same - and I
am not even American!
However, as an immigrant
she is a very meaningful symbol to me
(even though I originally come from a
very liberal country!)
Not to mention:
I ♥ NY!
I climbed to the observation deck in the crown
back in 1981.
It was hot and crowded and the stairs were endless.
The view wasn't even that great and
the crown was tiny!
But I am the only one of my family
and friends to have made it to the top!
Long live the Lady!
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Wednesday, 1 July 2009
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