{bits & pieces} and another journal!

The weekly “little of this, little of that” feature here at Like Mother, Like Daughter!

 

I’m finally being a good Daughter and getting around to reading Casti Connubii, the encyclical that my mother has been on a mission to get everyone to read for several years now. Actually, I’m reading it along with the ladies from my St. Greg’s Pocket reading group (fondly dubbed the Pocketbook Club).

Thanks, among other factors, to this club, I’ve picked up my reading habit in a big way over the past couple of years. But as 2016 came to a close, I realized that I didn’t have a solid list of what I had recently read. In fact, I have no record at all of the many, various books I’ve read over my lifetime! You know me and how I like to keep records.

This needed to be remedied.

Hence the Commonplace book, pictured above (under the encyclical). So yes, I’ve now added to my stack of active journals. Oh and don’t forget the other recent addition of Chickapee’s baby journal.

Please note: 1) the series on Casti Connubii was originally written as a Lenten series/reflection (now available as a book). 2) The beginning of Lent is approaching – about a month away. 3) You really should go ahead and start forming that Pocket you’ve been thinking about or get your Pocket to do that reading together! There’s time if you want to have this particular Lenten reading be a goal!

In case you needed another little nudge, consider yourself nudged. {mwah!}

On to this week’s links!

For anyone interested in Monsignor Ronald Knox, there is a new collection of his essays out and a little review of it here.


An absolutely beautiful piece reflecting on the importance of the sacraments, conscience, and the question of Communion for the divorced and remarried (from someone who’s been there): A Response to Archbishop Victor Fernandez from First Things. I actually caught my breath at the following bit:



“Because if a man can divorce his wife, or if a wife can divorce her husband, then Christ can divorce the Church. Which means that Christ can divorce Man. And that is a lie. It is the anti-Gospel.”


Speaking of marriage, what some activists are calling a “spreading of hate” in Virginia is actually just a proposed bill to protect from coercion or civil punishment those who maintain the belief that marriage is between a man and a woman (HB 2025) — just in case there are Virginians among us who should know.


A friend brought this to my attention: a little report claiming that No One Cooks Anymore. Actually, people may be cooking very intensely or at a very advanced level (the cooks are certainly working hard in restaurants, for one thing) — just not on a regular basis, for their families, at home. The article questions whether this is a bad thing and can only respond by venturing that it’s perhaps not good for folks’ health. How about for their hearts and souls? How about for their communities? How does it feel – for the work-weary and those in the rat race and the children – that there’s no plan to come home and sit down at the dinner table with loved ones on a routine basis? I submit that it is a kind of homelessness and that, for the majority of people experiencing it (that is to say, not necessarily the affluent [although probably for many of the affluent] but the average singleton or family) it’s very, very sad.

And that’s why we do what we do here at LMLD! The collective memory for homemaking and family-feeding has not been totally lost and can be revived! (Relevant links below in the ‘From the Archives’ section.)


An actually rather spot-on post from Apartment Therapy about how to make your home more sophisticated; well, just nicer, maybe!

In the Liturgical Year:

Today is the feast of the great and awesome philosopher, theologian, Doctor of the Church, poet, traveler: St. Thomas Aquinas! I love him. How could you not? Light a candle today to celebrate the Angelic Doctor.

 

From the Archives:

What we do “in here” – a post about homemaking, wrapping up the series on Casti Connubii.
Ask Auntie Leila: I feel guilty not working! Always worth a re-read as a reminder of the function and importance of homemaking.
Dinner Every Day.

 

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