I finally wrote this out for a family member to avoid hurt feelings and wasting her money since she loves to buy us things and can’t read our minds.
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Archive for the ‘Sexuality’ Category
Our family’s boycott list
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007Catholic Motherhood book collaboration idea
Friday, September 21st, 2007Please email Corinne at corinne_book@dashjr.org if you can help with the following more than praying:
I was reading Sheila Kitzinger’s book “The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth” this morning when I realized how offensive parts of it are to us. I am writing to ask for your prayers and any other help you can give me so that we can publish a pregnancy and childbirth book written by and for Catholic mothers.
Just in case they don’t print it…
Monday, September 17th, 2007Hello,
Babies R Us gave us a free Babytalk and American Baby in their gift box and I have to say that Babytalk is much better, even without looking at all of the negative letters to the editor in your magazine. I couldn’t find a way to write a letter to the editor easily like I could on the letter to the editor page of Babytalk. Your magazine pushes bottles, vaccines, and expensive needless things like the classifieds – what a waste of paper! (more…)
Thank God!
Thursday, September 13th, 2007US Delegation at United Nations Scolds
UN Agency for Promoting Abortion
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Modesty – Biblical and other quotes
Friday, June 29th, 2007This is what I have collected so far for the book about modesty that I will write (these are quoted by Rita Davidson’s book, “Immodesty Satan’s Virtue”).
Our Lady of Good Success said “. . . that impurity would inundate the streets like filthy ocean waters so that ‘there would be almost no virgin souls’” and “Innocence will almost no longer be found in children, nor modesty in women. In this supreme moment of need of the Church, those who should speak will fall silent.” “The vices of impurity, blasphemy and sacrilege will dominate in this time . . .” During one of the apparitions she saw swords above the head of Christ that read, “I shall punish heresy, blasphemy and impurity.”
Ecclesiasticus 19:27: “The attire of the body, laughter of the teeth, and the gait of the man, shew what he is.”
Deuteronomy 22:5: “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.”
1 Timothy 2:9-10 “In like manner I wish women to be decently dressed, adorning themselves with modesty and dignity, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing, but with good works, such as become women professing Godliness.”
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Thank God for dresses!
Friday, June 29th, 2007I don’t know how any woman can wear pants during pregnancy. You have to either fit them below the baby, or pull them up and possibly squeeze the baby, which leads to diarrhea and cramping.
Dresses contain crumbs very well until you can reach a low trash can.
When a woman wears a dress, there is no danger of showing lower back skin or underwear when the woman bends over, and if the dress is modest, she will not show her chest to anybody in any position.
Dresses are wonderful if you have trouble finding a skirt that fits right. Loose dresses are incredibly comfortable in almost any weather.
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Please sign this petition
Monday, June 25th, 2007While I may not agree with “religious freedoms” as AFA defines it, this petition is important in that it might help us continue to practice Christianity and not be punished for believing that homosexuality is wrong, and for upholding the sanctity of marriage:
“F” rating for “The Conception Chronicles”
Thursday, March 1st, 2007I am barely on page 7 of this book by Patty Doyle Debano, Courtney Edgerton Menzel and Shelly Dicken Sutphen, and already I am offended and disgusted. The authors seem to assume that:
every woman is taking birth control
every childbearing-age couple is rich enough to own a house, and stupid enough to think a baby needs a whole new addition to the house
those couples only want two or three children (thank God for the Catholic couples who say that it gets easier with five and six children and more, with more helpers)
we want to hear normal marital sex referred to as “unprotected”
the view that God made our bodies perfect and birth control absolutely should not be used is for barefoot women in long skirts who mutter prayers and actually love God…like me
Some of it is okay The above really bothers me, with the occasional swear word – the authors represent the kind of people I want to keep my family away from. Thank God I also checked out the book that inspired “The Sound of Music”, called “The Trapp Family Singers”, a heartwarming tale written by a truly Catholic mother. That’s what I’m going to read in bed while Catherine sleeps!
tired Mama, job-hunting, and marriage
Tuesday, March 15th, 2005Come see my website! I hope you like it. There are a few prayers there, prayer petitions (please pray for us and lots of other people), recommended bands, a growing collection of links, stuff about chastity/modesty/purity/love, and more.
How can any pregnant woman deny that her child is a baby? It saddens me to think of all the pro-choice and otherwise anti-life women out there. If you can read (and many humans can’t), you’re human. You’re just like me in that our lives started when our parents’ sperm and egg met at the moment of conception. The real choice is between birth and adoption, not murder of unborn children. Murder is never a moral, ethical option, and doctors who abort children need lots of prayers.
Contraception. There’s a hard topic to bring up in public. “Hey, you’re not using condoms with that girlfriend of yours, right? I really hope that you’re respecting her as a woman and respecting her virginity (or helping her to heal from pre- or extra-marital sex) by building her up and learning about her personality.” Who wants to talk about our sin? I only do that in the Sacrament of Penance, where the priest doesn’t judge me and God, through the priest, absolves me of my sins. What a great feeling it is to have a clean soul!! There are so many things to do besides have sex. If you’re sitting in class and trying to stay awake, you’re abstaining from sex. If you’re not a prostitute and you’re enjoying a hard day’s work, you’re abstaining from sex. The only thing stopping people from abstaining with their loved ones of the opposite (and sometimes, same) sex is their inability to fight their desires. Self-control is a must for everyone. Most people use self-control when driving, so they don’t kill pedestrians and run into other cars. Why not exercise the same self-restraint, self-discipline, self-control when in a relationship with someone? I pray that the Body of Christ will think about these things more often. I pray that people will receive help from friends, nuns, priests, and others in becoming and staying chaste, pure, modest, and truly loving. Our world will be so much better when this happens. God bless you!