Comments on: 7 Quick Takes Friday (vol. 29)

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Sun, 20 Mar 2011 04:32:50 +0000

[...] here and here for more about this. And Jennifer over at Conversion Diary has a great story about this. (Scroll down to [...]

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:58:02 +0000

For some reason I can't link with you right now.=(

Please feel free to check out my post at
http://halesbelles.blogspot.com/2009/07/7-quick-takes-friday.html

By: LW

LW — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:21:00 +0000

I’m a little late to the party on this post, but I just had to tell you that I too am reading Fire Within – and isn’t it funny how often a book I’m reading will pop up on someone’s blog. Obviously everyone else is having great ideas before I do.

I recently finished Fr. Dubay’s Happy Are You Poor. Easy to read, hard on the conscience. I recommend it highly.

By: Wendy from Zoom

Wendy from Zoom — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:55:00 +0000

I can’t help it! The juxtaposition of the posts were such that I could only think: those desert caves are probably all infested with scorpions!

By: Maria

Maria — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:24:00 +0000

You caught my attention with Fire Within – I attempted to read this a couple years ago, and found it under my bed the other day – maybe I should give it another try- And I LOVE the grocery store adventure! I also routinely have 4 kids in/hanging onto the cart with groceries packed around them. Comments range from kind inquiry, encouragement, and the occasional sad negativity. Either way, I wouldn’t give it up -maybe it’s because I like the challenge, but mostly because we become a witness to life and it helps others to see it can still be done – with God’s grace!

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:07:00 +0000

The St. Joseph story was too cute. They sell those little statues advertizing them for selling houses in the Catholic bookstore in my area. I debate the whole superstition aspect of it.

By: truthfinder

truthfinder — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:02:00 +0000

Juat a quick thought on the desert fathers and caves in the desert: where better to find scorpions!
Rosemary

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:35:00 +0000

Oh, oh… A couple thoughts on the burying of St. Joseph statues. It’s an old custom in the Church to bury sacramentals such as medals. It’s not sacriligious or even disrespectful to bury a statue, if it’s done out of devotion and not superstition. It is in fact, a certain form of sacrifice to “offer up” an object in this way ~ which makes the life-size statue a monumental sacrifice made for a petition! It’s always good to remind ourselves that a statue is nothing more than a representation of a saint, even if it’s blessed.

We personally have gotten good results in home-selling by leaving our statue of St. Joseph on prominent display in our home to be sold. And feel we’ve had the best results, still, when we’ve prayed a novena to St. Joseph.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:26:00 +0000

So commiserating with ~ and can’t help smiling at the picture of you with all your Little Blessings and the groceries in the shopping cart. If I’d been shopping at the same time with you, we’d have chatted, I just know it.

I have a particular image in my mind now in my middle age that I pull up whenever I feel “harumphy” about the hassle of having to go grocery shopping. Makes me feel like life’s pretty easy in comparison. The picture: Me with a newborn in her carseat hooked onto the front of my basket and a 5 y.o. in the back; my 9 y.o. son with a 2 y.o. in the front of his basket and a 4 y.o. in the back. And my 8 y.o. pushing the basket with the groceries in it. Now that they’re grown up, I usually leave a big kid home to babysit the Littles so I can go out with less hassle. But, strangely… believe it or not, I miss those days.

By: MemeGRL

MemeGRL — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:55:00 +0000

Your other quick takes were great too. But #4 (the grocery cart) made me laugh so loud I woke up one of my napping kids! (It was time, and what better sound to awaken to than your mother’s laugh, right?)
Thanks for the giggle to start the weekend. And good luck with that! Seconding (or third or fourthing) the online shopping idea!