Life of a Catholic Librarian

Good morning all! I hope you have your morning beverage for a humid mid-July edition of: Today I'm talking about troubleshooting so...

Photo courtesy of Allison Kinyon, Rosaries by Allison Happy Monday to you all, I hope you are well.:) For my part, my mind is very occup...

Happy Monday everybody! That sounds so much perkier than I actually feel, but hey; you win some, you lose some. ;-) I've just brewed aft...

Hi all! I have a SUPER busy day, so no time for 7 Quick Takes unfortunately (ironic that those posts usually take me longer than others to w...

Happy Tuesday to all of you, and happy feast of St. Kateri ! She's certainly a favorite of mine, and quite integral to my own Catholic i...

Good morning all! Since today is the first day of the Sacred Heart novena , I thought it was perfect timing to discuss devotion to the Sac...

Good day to you all, and I hope that your Thursday after Ash Wednesday is off to a good start. :) I've been happily reading along wit...

Happy Catholic Nook Wednesday everybody. :) These posts can really be about any sort of Catholic devotion or practice, but I notice that ...

Good day all! In case you were wondering ;-) we did have a better night with Anne , thank you for your prayers. :0 I'm hoping that tha...

Morning all! Via the fabulousness that is My Treasury of Chaplets , I am able to explore making special chaplets as gifts, and being the b...

Hi y'all! Time for another Catholic Nook installment, and I have been feeling inspired lately by this small book pictured left, My Tre...

I've been thinking a lot about St. Therese lately. Part of it, I suppose is that my spiritual reading is currently focused on her in ...

This is one of my very favorite Marian devotions, and this day is quickly becoming icky poo, so I desperately needed a soothing distraction...

With my ongoing 54 day rosary novena, I was contemplating my little collection of rosaries and chaplets that I pray with regularly. Now, gra...

I just added a new chaplet to my bevy of rosaries and chaplets, and thought I'd share. Cam over at Full of Grace Creations on etsy made...

This week, Cam is giving away an adorable pearl Holy Communion Chaplet . I'm entering, and you should too. :) This is a short chaplet th...

Tag teaming onto yesterday's beautiful feast of the Immaculate Conception, I thought I'd mention a giveaway over at one of my favor...

The other day, Hank went to check on the little flower seed he had growing in a pot on our dining room windowsill. Suddenly, we heard the so...

Hank took this picture; can you tell? :) It's the only one I could secure that didn't have his little finger going across the lens. ...

I came into the day today with a bit of a sense of dread in my stomach. My grandmother has been having some heart problems, so I've been...