Aleighanne's Journey

Thanks Gustav

aleigh72 — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:44:49 +0000

hello

Well thanks to Gustav I have been offline for a few days. I do plan on posting sometime this weekend!

Catholics Against Joe Biden

aleigh72 — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:08:50 +0000

Yesterday Democrat Party presidential nominee announced Joseph “I’m going to shove my rosary beads down their throat” Biden as his vice presidential candidate. In response to this move, as well as a supposedly non-partisian Catholic Organization supoprtin Biden (liberals in non-partisian clothing called Catholics United) a new blog Catholics Against Joe Biden has been created.

Please check out their blog and read this post on why Catholics should not vote for Senator Biden.

Please visit the site, check it out, and pass along the information to your friends!

Online Retreat

aleigh72 — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:41:26 +0000

Check out the Anchoress Blog. She will be hosting an online retreat this week.
I am working on my presentation and hope to be able to have a post up this week. Sorry for the quiet.

Update 9:53 PM She has commented that the retreat started this evening. First post here . Please check it out! Its a wonderful post and she is a wonderful writer!

Update

aleigh72 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:44:30 +0000

Hello

Well I will probably not be posting much in the next couple of weeks. I am preparing for a trip to my dad’s and have to finish the text for my presentation.

I quickly want to recommend Praying With Saint Paul by Magnificat. Will have a review up sometime in the near future.

Update

aleigh72 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:46:36 +0000

I haven’t posted in a couple of days. I am working on my presentation for TOTA. I actually started yesterday and needed yesterday and today to at least make a huge push to get started. I want the text finished by this weekend to send to my copresenter and the Professor who coauthored the manuscript with us.

I should be able to kick around a few ideas tonight and maybe post tomorrow. If not Thursday.

Silence!

aleigh72 — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:04:03 +0000

Postcripts From the Spitfire Grill has announced they are on a silent retreat this week but will be autoposting on the topic of silence while they are away.

I began thinking on the topic of silence myself. I admire anyone who can be silent for a week. Try to keep me quiet for a day and I go nuts. One of the memories I have is of Fridays during Lent. At Our Lady of Good Counsel every Friday during Lent meant two things during lunch:

We had a meatless meal. I seem to recall we had five revolving lunches, vegetable soup *ugh*, grilled cheese, fish (either sticks or if they were daring a piece of fried cod), mac and cheese (homemade!), and pb & J *double ugh*. Sidenote: can you tell I am a picky eater?
We had to be silent the entire time we entered the cafeteria until we left. Our silence during lunch in Lent was different from the other times in the year when we were punished for misbehaving. Our silence was supposed to be a sacrifice for the one Christ gave for us.

Another memory of silence also took place during Lent, of being in church Friday afternoon for stations of the cross or benediction and exposition (It seems like we alternated, one Friday we did one then the other but I could be wrong.) I loved being in church for these two devotions. I especially loved the quiet as we were waiting because we could pray. Interstinly, usually students would try to talk to one another while pretending to pray. I was not one of them. I could actually become quite cross if someone bugged me during prayer.

Why be silent? Why do we need silence? I think it was best said by Pope Paul VI that we need silence so “…there may return to us an apppreciation of this stupendous and indispensable spiritual condition, deafened as we are by so much tumult, so much noise, so many voices of our chaotic and frenzied modern life.”

Mary Moment’s Carnival Call for Posts

aleigh72 — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:06:38 +0000

From Behold Your Mother: A Bouquet of Love to Mary from Her Children blog :

It’s time to round up posts about “Great Books about Mary” for the August issue of the Mary Moments carnival. Send them to me at peerybingle [at] gmail [dot] com or using the online form by 10 PM EST on August 10.

Get to Blogging!

Friday Morning Blog Roundup

aleigh72 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:05:00 +0000

Here are a listing of postings from various websites that caught my eye this moring. May update later!
Mt. Soledad Cross Article at the American Papist
Desecration of the Host at Steve Ray’s Blog
Holy Father’s Prayer Intentions at Postcripts from the Spitfire Grill

Martha, Martha, Martha

aleigh72 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:58:00 +0000

Yesterday was the feast day of Saint Martha. She is one of my favorite Saints. When I was younger, I had a bit of a Martha complex. Whenever we would clean our house as kids, my sister always picked out something that did not need to be done, polishing furniture. We only had one piece of furniture that needed polishing occasionally but my sister, Mary, (yes really her name I kid you not!) would go run for the spray polish, and be done in 2 minutes. I, of course, was stuck doing something hideous like cleaning our shared room or cleaning the bathtub. I complained once to my mother, who had heard my loud grumblings. She told me I was a Martha. Thinking back now about it, at the time I was worried about the unfairness of it all. I worried about all the work that was in the house to be done while my sister watched TV or played outside. If I had stopped grumbling and worked and not play the martyr, I would have finished sooner and could have spent time doing what I really wanted to do.
Here are a few to learn more about Martha:
In the Heart of My Home
Steve Ray’s Blog
Saints.SQPN.Com
Catholic Online

Real Life Interrupts

aleigh72 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:09:00 +0000

No blog post today. Had home maintenance emergency and waited all day for repairman. Good thing is finally taken care of! Carpet people come back tomorrow to check carpet. Best thing: we don’t pay a dime since we live in an apartment! Will be back to blogging tomorrow!