Suffering With Joy

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#1 Based on what some bloggers whom I respect are doing, I added the Google Friend Connect to my sidebar.  I may add another gadget associated with it in the future, too.  For now, though, this about stretches my capacity to deal with new things and see how they work.  Sign in on the gadget if you wish.

#2 Helium is a kind of writers’ “co-op” which I joined just before Christmas so I can write articles that interest me, especially ones that would be longer than what I want to have at my blog or subject matter that doesn’t quite fit here.  I’m keeping blog articles short enough to allow for people’s busy schedules, except for an occasional “rant” when I just can’t restrain myself on some pro-life issue.  Here are links to the titles I’ve written to at Helium.  You may see other people’s articles under the same title, too.  If so, just scroll down the list to find mine.

1.  The Five Precepts of the Church

2.  What is Catholic Mental Prayer?

3.  How to Engage in Catholic Mental Prayer

This world boasts an unconscionable amount of media dreck yet the media is exactly where we need to be to bring Christ to others.  Pope John Paul II encouraged us to use contemporary technological methods to reach the masses and so I’m doing my little part.  If you like my articles there, please pass the site information on to others or link to them in your blog posts.  I don’t get paid to write articles, but according to Helium’s rules I can earn money by meeting certain criteria which is way too complicated to get into here.  No, I won’t get rich writing for Helium.

#3 For over ten years now I’ve been writing a monthly newsletter about the Traditional Mass movement and Catholic tradition, but only those from July, 2006 on are available on the web.  If I can remember to do so, I will include the link each month to the Una Voce Arkansas Ozarks Regional Newsletter.  When you get to the web site, scroll down the page for the latest newsletter.  If you like it, you can subscribe from the UVAO site and I’ll put you on the regular mailing list. Right now, all articles are in Microsoft Word format. At some point, I hope to be skilled enough to put them into PDF format and still meet my layout standards.

St. Isidore of Seville, Murillo

#4 The Observation Service for Internet, who drew it’s mission from the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, researched the Internet and related technologies to select a patron saint that best reflects the concerns and ideals of computer designers, programmers and users. The saint chosen by the Observation Service for Internet was Saint Isidore. “The saint who wrote the well-known ‘Etymologies’ (a type of dictionary), gave his work a structure akin to that of the database. He began a system of thought known today as ‘flashes;’ it is very modern, notwithstanding the fact it was discovered in the sixth century. Saint Isidore accomplished his work with great coherence: it is complete and its features are complementary in themselves. — From St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Picayune, Mississippi.

St. Isidore, pray for me!

Tags: Catholic Church, helium, St. Isidore, UVAORN

2 Comments to New Items

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   Barb,
   Thank you so much for the e-mail! I didn’t really know how much vitamin D would be helpful and I didn’t know about the baking soda trick. I do have ph strips and a book on alkalizing foods [now if only I would follow it better]. It’s hard to figure out what works best, your advice was very helpful and deeply appreciated. May God bless you for your kindness.
   I read your post and I am going to go check out the links you left. Now that I follow your blog I just have to scroll down on my dashboard to connect to your blog. It leaves updates for other bloggers to see what you are writing about. I hope you had a great weekend
Mary333 on January 10th, 2010
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   Thanks so much, Mary. You are such a good friend. I’m glad to help all I can.
barb on January 11th, 2010