A New "Subscription" Option

I am going to give something a try, and I hope it is something that subscribers to the various blogs under the  "Faith of the Fathers" banner will like and use.

Some of our blogs subscribers subscribe to more than one feed. It can make a feed reader "crowded" so to speak, if there are 3, 4 or more subscriptions, and some people don't like to have too many separate feeds to keep up with. So, I have come up with an option.

It is the option of subscribing to one, single "feed" for all of the posts to all "Faith of the Fathers Blogs". That way, there is one single feed for Saint Quote of the Day, Daily Mass Readings, Pope Benedict XVI, The Early Church Fathers, Our Lady and all the rest of our blogs. You can scroll through that one feed for all the new posts instead of having to go from one feed to another and another.

So, on each blogs left hand sidebar will be a heading that says "Subscribe Now: Get the Latest Posts From All Faith of the Fathers Blogs In One Feed!" The subscriber can click the icon to add the feed to their favorite feed reader if they desire, and can then eliminate all of the individual blog feeds from that same reader. The option to subscribe to each individual blog will remain for those who are just interested in one or two blogs.

I any event, here is an active subscription icon for those who want to subscribe to all blog posts now:

Subscribe in a reader

Hard Drive Failure Imminent : Update

On start-up of my computer today, I got a message that said "Hard-drive Failure Imminent, Backup Hard-drive and Replace".

As I don't have the money to buy a new computer or a hard drive either, I may not be online for awhile, depending on when the hard drive finally croaks, that is.

So please keep me in your prayers, and please hit the tip jar if you can.

Thanks!

UPDATE:

A friend in Texas sent me a message that she has a hard-drive which she is going to mail to me in the next few days.

So it looks like I will be back in the saddle for a while longer!

Thankful To Be Here

Today, is my 57th birthday...or as I like to say...it's the 18th anniversary of my 39th birthday. 

I thought I should be clear about being 57 from the start, because there are some people who would find adding 39 plus 18 too much of a challenge. After all, in todays world, there are too many who seem to think that adding 2 plus 2 equals 9...or 11...or 42.

The last year has been a rough one for many of us, but I know that once again, God will see all of us through. He always does, if we just trust in Him and follow what He wants for us, all will be well.

I know that this is true, because six years ago, just about 3 weeks or so before my 51st birthday, I received an early birthday present in the form of a "light" heart attack.

I don't know about that "light" stuff. I think they call it "light" because they weren't the ones who had the heart attack in the first place. "Light" indeed.

Anyway, I survived thanks to paying attention to my symptoms from the beginning, and by God blessing me with great doctors from Asheville Cardiology.

All the prayers and well wishes at the time helped, too. As did my having faith that God would see me through all of that. He did, and four days later I returned home with a stent in my chest, and with a greater appreciation of life.

Not that I didn't appreciate life before, but now with a greater understanding of how precious life is, and how precious the people in my life are, and how wonderful having God in my life is.

Anyway, I just wanted to say how grateful I am to still be here six years later, and to be able to share my insignificant little thoughts with you.

May God Bless you and Our Lady keep you in her care!

Refugee keeps a long-ago promise to God :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

The following excerpt is from the Catholic News Agency article "Refugee keeps a long-ago promise to God" by Christina Lee Krauss:

• Franciscan Father David Phan made a promise to God at the age of 16. He was on a crowded boat with dozens of other refugees from his home country of Vietnam, suffering from seasickness and thirst.
• It was 1985, and he was fleeing the poverty and persecution at home to seek a better life.
• “I promised God that if I survived, I would dedicate my life to serve His holy will,” he said.
• Years later, after studying and working in the United States long enough to bring his entire family here from Vietnam, Father Phan gave away all his worldly possessions and kept that promise by joining the Franciscans.

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Refugee keeps a long-ago promise to God :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)