Hearts and Letters and Grilles, O My

By Nancy Shuman -
Hi - I'm Nancy.  So glad to meet you!  I know that in the blog world I look a lot like a grille (not the kind you cook on, although if you have a nice filet mignon on hand, please feel free to throw it my way).  It's actually a pretty good likeness.  I'm kinda square, working toward becoming hole-y, trying to stop my habit of making Shamefully Lame Puns.  If you've checked out The Cloistered Heart, you might know what the grille means to me.

I also do a blog called The Breadbox Letters.  There I share old paintings, writings (mostly from saints), and occasional stories about.. oh various and sundry things.  Like the husband I had when I was eight, and blue velvet ribbons on purple cake, and about the day I tried to get Sister Rita to put her shiny white pearls on over her habit.  You know, the usual.   

When I'm not blogging, I love spending time with my family, spoiling my grandchildren, reading, and watching stacks of "undetermined accumulating matter" grow higher in my office.  I swear someone has been watering those.  I'm deathly afraid of excited about what might crawl burst forth from them in the spring...

I love being part of the Association of Catholic Women Bloggers, and I am reeeeaally enjoying everyone's "let's get to know us" posts.  I'm SO glad to meetcha!!!

Comments

  1. Unknown12:28 pm, February 21, 2014

    I love your Shamefully Lame Puns - yes, it has to be capitalized. What a wonderful intro. Makes me want tea, an antique letter opener and get to your growing pile of mail!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Nancy Shuman1:38 pm, February 21, 2014

      Thank you, Cristina... I thoroughly enjoyed YOUR introductory post! I can definitely offer you that cup of tea, and since it must be Online (the next best thing to Oolong?), then you may select any kind in the world. But fair warning: it's not just mail you're signing on for if you tackle that pile. Last I looked there were address labels, a hairbrush, markers, paper dolls (not mine, I swear), 30-year-old photos, hand sanitizer... shall I go on? Yeah, I thought not.

      Delete
  2. Mary N.7:13 pm, February 21, 2014

    Ha! Ha! Great introduction, Nancy!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Victor S E Moubarak3:45 am, February 22, 2014

    Hi,

    Great to see you here. Thank you for taking the time to introduce yourself to us.

    God bless.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Melanie Jean Juneau3:55 pm, February 22, 2014

    :) ahhh, all I can do is smile in response to your introduction

    ReplyDelete
  5. Nancy Shuman12:18 am, February 24, 2014

    I am smiling back :). Thanks, Melanie!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

SAINT ELIZABETH, MOTHER OF JOHN THE BAPTIST- Feast: November 5

By -
Image
Elizabeth appears in the Gospel of Luke, where she is described as “righteous in the eyes of God, observing all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly,”.  I imagine that she was warm, loving and obviously a safe harbour for young Mary, who was not married when she conceived.  When Mary came to visit her, Elizabeth was pregnant with St. John the Baptist and in her sixth month: “Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And how have I deserved that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold, the moment that the sound of thy greeting came to my ears, the babe in my womb leapt for joy. And blessed is she who has believed, because the things promised her by the Lord shall be accomplished.” 
Read more

The Memorare

By Helen Gonsalves -
Image
This popular prayer, a favorite of many Catholics, dates back to the 15th century and takes its name from the first Latin word of the prayer, "memorare," which means "remember." The Memorare is of unknown authorship, although it has been attributed to St. Augustine (354-430), St. John Chrysostom (c. 347-407) and, with more reason, to St. Bernard of Clairvaux (c. 1090-1153). St. Bernard's sermons on Mary were famous, and it was his Cistercian monks in the monastery of Citeaux in the 12th century who popularized the name "Our Lady" for Mary. The Memorare has also been attributed to the French cleric Claude Bernard (1588-1641), known as the "poor priest" of Paris, whose homilies contain passages that echo its words. No matter who wrote this prayer, it was Father Bernard who did much to popularize it, teaching it in hospitals and prisons, where Mary's intercession was effective in working miracles of grace. The first manuscript of the Mem...
Read more

'Greater Love: Richie Fernando SJ', a joy-filled Filipino missionary

By -
Image
 I haven't been able to post for more than a week as I was giving an eight-day directed retreat to eight sisters of the Missionaries of Charity near Manila. While I had some access to the internet it was rather slow. I had intended to make a post here on the murder of Fr Fausto Tentorio PIME , a 59-year-old Italian priest, in the Diocese of Kidapawan, Mindanao, on Monday 17 October. I will save that post for a later date. As I was looking for a video about Father Fausto I came across one about Brother Richard Michael 'Richie' Fernando SJ, a Filipino Jesuit scholastic who died while trying to prevent a troubled and disabled young man in Cambodia from throwing a grenade. That was in 1996 - on 17 October. Father Fausto gave his life exactly 15 years later. I remember the mixture of sorrow and pride I felt when I read of the death of Brother Richie, pride as a missionary in the Philippines that a young Filipino seminarian had given his life so spontaneously in order to sav...
Read more