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Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Ash Wednesday 2019

Greetings in Christ fellow Catholics!




Every Lent I pick a few new books to read, along with old favorites. This year (as with some years past) I am devoting my reading and prayers to the Poor Souls in Purgatory and the conversion of sinners. After having watched a weeks worth of EWTN's "Women of Grace" featuring the Catholic author Susan Tassone, I decided to read some of her books this year. 

1) "Praying with the Saints for the Holy Souls in Purgatory" 

2) "Day by Day for the Holy Souls in Purgatory" 

3) "St. Faustina Prayer Book for the Holy Souls in Purgatory" 

4) "St. Faustina Prayer Book for the Conversion of Sinners" 

Would love to hear from other Catholics what they are reading this Lenten season. 


God bless!



In Christ, 

Julie @ Connecticut Catholic Corner 


Wednesday, July 25, 2018

The Great Adventure Catholic Bible


OK, the title is kinda hokey but I like what this Bible will include. 

Ad quoteHow you’ll learn... 
*Color-coding for easy reference. Uses the popular Bible Timeline system that’s used by hundreds of thousands of Catholics to learn the Bible 
*Articles to help you understand the overarching story and important covenants that tie the entire Bible together. 
*Key event callouts to help you quickly identify important points in the Bible that ordinarily take readers a long time to find and categorize in their head. 
*Detailed charts giving a visual overview of important characters, key events, maps, major covenants, and historical context. 
*Newly Designed Full-Color Maps to help visualize Bible story locations.
Being a convert to Catholicism, I grew up using Protestant reference Bibles- I adored them because they taught about the people, places and background information about the stories in the Bible. Granted it was flawed because it was Protestant, but my point is, I always wanted more information for better understanding of what I was reading in the Bible - reference Bibles gave that to me. 

Now I'm thrilled to find a new Catholic "reference" Bible being published that seems to include all those things. 

Ad quote from Ascension Press
Features
*A full-color Bible with a beautiful eye-catching design
 
*Each book of the Bible is color-coded with printed tabs, indicating where it belongs within The Bible Timeline. 
*Twelve Timeline charts provide a visual overview of the Bible, including: important characters, Key Events, geography, major covenants, world rulers, and contemporary events in secular history. 
*Twelve articles give a summary and explanation of each period of salvation history. 
*Seven articles introduce and explain the major covenants of salvation history, showing God’s amazing plan for humanity. 
*Seventy Key Event call-outs provide a brief description of the milestones in the biblical narrative. 
*Includes sixteen newly designed full-color maps. 
*The words of Jesus are printed in red. 
*Revised Standard Version – Second Catholic Edition. 
*Granted an Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat through the Archdiocese of Saint Paul & Minneapolis 
*Two ribbon markers.


Source: https://shop.ascensionpress.com/products/the-great-adventure-catholic-bible 



In Christ, 

Julie @Connecticut Catholic Corner 


Thursday, March 30, 2017

Why don't we just call it cross-dressing?


5 A woman shall not be clothed with man’s apparel, neither shall a man use woman’s apparel: for he that doeth these things is abominable before God.


Many years ago I worked part time in a friend's specialty kitchen store. One day a week, every week a fifty-something cross-dressing man would come into the store dressed like June Cleaver with a full beard and mustache clutching a pastel colored vintage purse that matched his size 14 pumps and pillbox hat perched on his crew-cut shaved head. 

He looked ridiculous and I pitied him.  The man was sick and it didn't appear anyone was helping him or perhaps the help wasn't helping. Whatever the case may have been the reactions by the public were the same...pity ("Oh the poor pitiful man", disgust and more than one person saying the man was a sandwich short of a picnic. He was an oddity. 

Not so much today and it's only going to get worse if progressives continue to corrupt society.

First we had Bruce Jenner making progressives go all a flutter with him as their new "her" transgender poster..."girl". Then late last year we had makeup dynasty Covergirl hiring a gay young man to be their make up "covergirl/boy"... 



And now (of course) the insanity is spreading...


Article quote I happen to agree with: 
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, describes transgenderism and biological subjectivism as “a politically correct demand that everyone agree to participate in the mental distortions of a few individuals who suffer from a psychological disconnect from their biological realities. Such ideologies stand in complete contradiction to the known science on biology and physical reality, and sadly, this mental distortion is now being thrust onto children as part of a sick, demented political agenda to appease the most lunatic fringe elements of the political spectrum.”
We've all heard about the bathroom and locker room chaos happening in schools across this nation, but few are talking about the indoctrination of our elementary school children with transgender children's books. 

Standard reading material for young children from grades K and up include books like "Jacob's New Dress" (a boy wants to wear a girls dress to school) and... "Red" by Michael Hall. 

Description: A blue crayon mistakenly labeled as "red" suffers an identity crisis in this picture book by the New York Times–bestselling creator of My Heart Is Like a Zoo and It's an Orange Aardvark! Funny, insightful, and colorful, Red: A Crayon's Story, by Michael Hall, is about being true to your inner self and following your own path despite obstacles that may come your way. Red will appeal to fans of Lois Ehlert, Eric Carle, and The Day the Crayons Quit, and makes a great gift for readers of any age!
Red has a bright red label, but he is, in fact, blue. His teacher tries to help him be red (let's draw strawberries!), his mother tries to help him be red by sending him out on a playdate with a yellow classmate (go draw a nice orange!), and the scissors try to help him be red by snipping his label so that he has room to breathe. But Red is miserable. He just can't be red, no matter how hard he tries! Finally, a brand-new friend offers a brand-new perspective, and Red discovers what readers have known all along. He's blue! This funny, heartwarming, colorful picture book about finding the courage to be true to your inner self can be read on multiple levels, and it offers something for everyone.
I truly pity the young children growing up in today's American society.  Most of them won't be sure a boy is a boy or a girl is a girl. Now with "Red" the crayon being read to them, they won't even know what color their crayons truly are any more! 

It's pure insanity! 


Teaching your child that boys wearing girls clothes and girls wearing boys clothes is the definition of "cross-dressing" might just get them tossed out of school!  Facts no longer apply. Definitions change at the whims of society.  But the Catholic Faith stands firm and has always had the foresight to warn us of what was and is to come. Educating ourselves and our children in the Faith is essential to all of us - especially in times like these. 
"After the year 1900, toward the middle of the 20th century, the people of that time will become unrecognizable. When the time for the Advent of the Antichrist approaches, peoples minds will grow cloudy from carnal passions, and dishonor and lawlessness will grow stronger. Then the world will become unrecognizable. Peoples appearances will change, and it will be impossible to distinguish men from women due to their shamelessness in dress and style of hair. These people will be cruel and will be like wild animals because of the temptations of the Antichrist. There will be no respect for parents and elders, love will disappear, and Christian pastors, bishops, and priests will become vain men, completely failing to distinguish the right-hand way from the left."
   -St Nilus 5th Century AD (contemporary and defender of St John Crysostom)


In the 5th century this was seen yet so many today still can't see it right in front of their faces. 



The devil loves chaos and confusion.  

God is the author of Truth.  

DNA doesn't lie...its just cross-dressing. 

Let's call it what it is. 


In Christ, 



Julie @ Connecticut Catholic Corner 




Link: http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-03-18-twisted-new-beauty-boys-trend-quietly-sweeping-america.html

http://www.boredpanda.com/17-year-old-guy-just-became-covergirls-first-coverboy/

https://biblia.com/bible/douayrheims/Dt22.5

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cross-dressing

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Crayons-Story-Michael-Hall/dp/0062252070

http://www.refinery29.com/2017/03/147027/school-district-jacob-wears-dress-censorship



Friday, July 10, 2015

Rainbow Boxes coming to your library soon!

The indoctrination of our children continues with a "project" aimed at filling public libraries with more gay agenda promoting young adult books to make LBGT+ more normalized and accepted among our children. 

The current project "Rainbow Boxes" is planning to send a box of gay, lesbian, transgender etc, etc young adult books to all 50 states in America and they don't want these books in a marked "LBGT" area...no they want them mixed in with other young adult books so that unknowing kids will pick them and read them without knowing what they might be in store for.  

Some of the books in the box include: 


"If You Could Be Mine" - By Sara Farizan [Identities: Lesbian, supporting gay and transgender characters]
 -Description: Sahar and her best friend Nasrin have fallen in love, but in Iran they can’t be together openly. When Nasrin’s parents arrange a marriage for her, Sahar comes up with a plan to become a man, since sex reassignment is legal in Iran. This is a fascinating look at how far we will go for the people we love.

And...


"None of the Above" - By IW Gregorio [Identities: Intersex]
 -Description: On the eve of taking things to the next level with her boyfriend, homecoming queen and track star Kristin finds out that she is intersex, throwing her life into turmoil and her identity into question. This novel is as thorough and informative as it is sensitive and engaging.

They understand there will be challenges to reaching their goals. 


The goal I am seeing here is to get publishers to pump out more filth than they already are.  I'm a parent who reads YA because I have young adult readers in my home and I want to know what they are reading and what the school is sending home as "suggested reading lists"- its trash.  It's often graphic and loaded with sexual encounters- both hetero and homosexual.  It's corrupting our children and most parents are completely clueless as to what these books actually contain. 


The goal here...sneak the books into areas where unsuspecting YA readers who aren't looking for LBGT books will get one anyway.  




I am sure these two gay activist authors will soon be barraged with money and book donations from the corrupt ilk of our society looking to corrupt more of our children.  It's what they do folks.  

If you're a parent, please pay attention to what your children are reading- don't assume a school reading list is actually good for your child- usually it's not.  

Also, pay attention to what books are on the children's and YA shelves at your local libraries.  Your child may be reading content you aren't aware of.  And don't forget Catholic school libraries...don't think these books can't one day end up there too.



In Christ,


Julie @ Connecticut Catholic Corner 



Source: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/rainbow-boxes#/story




Sunday, June 1, 2008

Anti-Catholic Hatred Answered


In response to my blog post: Anti-Catholic Hatred: Pure and Simply Sad
I received the following comment by an anonymous reader: "Perhaps by reading "Fifty years in the Church of Rome by Charles Chiniquy and "The Two Babylons" by Alexander Hislop, you may better understand those who hate the RCC. I love Catholics, but not the church I see as a false church. This is understandable by Catholics who hate what they believe to be false churches, isn't it? Read those you think you will disagree with, or you are destined to never grow beyond your borders."
First I'd like to say, thank you for sharing your views. And I'd like to ask what you find "false" about the Catholic Church? Now to address your comments. I do understand those who hate the Catholic Church, as I hear from them daily and have read their books and seen their anti-Catholic hatred displayed on television. I came from Protestantism. I am not a "cradle Catholic". I am a convert. It was by reading books that disagreed with my Baptist upbringing that I began to see the holes and errors in Protestantism- and they are extensive. So you are correct in stating that if one does not open themselves up to things they disagree with that they will "never grow beyond their borders". Very true indeed, else I'd still be Baptist! Prior to my willingness to read about the Catholic faith from Catholic authors (not anti-Catholic propaganda that so many anti-Catholics cling to) and all of Christian history in general, I had read things by biased Protestants who were clueless about the Catholic faith. They thought they knew what Catholics believed but they didn't. They wrote on assumptions and taught those assumptions as truth and it was all wrong and some outright lies. I read things by conservative evangelicals who would only support the faith I knew and not open me up to the full truth of our Christian history. But being the curious sort, I read and read then I read some more. I dug deeply into Christian history and early Christian writings-fascinating, I highly recommend those readings. To open myself up to that, was to stop being Baptist. I had been willing to seek out the Truth where ever it was and our loving and merciful God showed me the Truth I had been seeking. I found one error after another in Protestantism and in my search for the truth God led me right to the Roman Catholic Church. His full Truth. I was not born Catholic, but I will die Catholic.
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