Prayer is essential to life.... and I find that I forget my prayer request notebook and my prayer journal when we go on trips to the hospital or just the local hospital adventures. I tried a few free prayer apps, but then ended up getting the one that cost $1.99. It is AWESOME -- it is an app called Prayers for the iPad (not available on the iTouch). You create lists of people or groups, then when you click on the person, you can add as many prayer requests as you would like for that person/group. When you pray, you can click on "I prayed for this" or "Answered" -- it keeps track of the number of times you prayed for each request. Once the prayer is answered, it gets moved to the answered prayer file. You can then click on "answered prayers" to see how many prayers have been answered. Can't wait to see how many prayers have been answered in a year!
iJournal is perfect-- it is the first journal with blank pages.... you create it from scratch. I think this one is also only available for iPad. I'm trying to add notes from my latest prayer journal to the new iJournal. The colest part is that I can search iJournal.... unlike my regular prayer journal! If I want to look up what I have written about forgiveness, I can do that.... or I can search my pastor's homilies, etc. It really is super cool to be able to search the journal.
Neither App is "Catholic", but they are a great addition to my life. I can reflect on Scripture or my favorite Saint's quotes.... then later find them easily.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Spanish Helps
We're making our way through Spanish I with two of our boys. Seton's Spanish Counselor will be my new best friend these next few years! He gave us a few Spanish resources, as did our priest. We also found a few on our own. Chris has been using eLanguage Spanish Essentials for the computer to help him (he flies to Mexico and Central America quite a bit) We found High School Advantage from www.southwestern.com had a helpful Spanish language tool, too.
Apps: Matthew likes the iTranslate App he purchased and I found a free app called LL Spanish that is VERY helpful! I think LL Spanish is only available for the iPad, where the one Matthew purchased is available for both his iTouch and my iPad. Another free Spanish App called Essentials seems to be okay, too. It is worth a shot, since it is free.
Websites:
Manuel at Seton gave us these:
A Catholic TV station with lots of great things and this foreign language vocabulary site (this site will pronounce the words for you)
Our priest uses this: Ambiguo (this site pronounces the words for you)
Apps: Matthew likes the iTranslate App he purchased and I found a free app called LL Spanish that is VERY helpful! I think LL Spanish is only available for the iPad, where the one Matthew purchased is available for both his iTouch and my iPad. Another free Spanish App called Essentials seems to be okay, too. It is worth a shot, since it is free.
Websites:
Manuel at Seton gave us these:
A Catholic TV station with lots of great things and this foreign language vocabulary site (this site will pronounce the words for you)
Our priest uses this: Ambiguo (this site pronounces the words for you)
Chemistry-- Just Sayin'
I don't think my son took notes, not at least while I was looking, So I took pictures of the boards.... maybe he can check out my blog later to recap and take notes? Well.... it's be hard to read without zooming in. I love that we used Friendly Chemistry prior to high school to prepare them, but some of this stuff is easily forgotten, if you know what I mean.(Update on Sept 15: No, he did not take notes...... I was going back over this again before the first chapter test....ouch!)
Sunday, September 11, 2011
9/11
A few months ago, I attended a conference that was in 7 World Trade. 7 World Trade was rebuilt after 9/11. It was surreal going up into 7 World Trade, knowing that it had collapsed on 9/11. From the 40th floor, seeing the huge hole in the ground, it was surreal..... thinking about those who perished that day made me tremble.
We should never forget. We pray for all the families, victims and survivors of 9/11. The US was criticized today for remembering and holding public memorial services with the family members of 9/11 victims. One lady told me that we should only remember the humanitarian triumph on that day. How does one forget the reason Fr. Judge was anointing victims when the towers collapsed and killed him? He wasn't anointing people because they spontaneously became ill or dropped dead. He was doing his job as a priest because terrorists flew airplanes into our twin towers. Saying what she said today.... using that logic, one would then have to forget the holocaust when remembering the sacrifice St. Kolbe made when he died for a Jewish man who had a wife and kids. Are we supposed to forget why he was in the concentration camp to begin with? Absolutely crazy.
I also read that we were adding hype to the sadness of 9/11 and that this is what has created the economic turmoil. Right. President Obama, his administration and our Congress passing the recent bill to increase the debt ceiling without really controlling spending had nothing to do with it. It was all that hype over 9/11. No one can add hype to the events of 9/11. 3 WTC towers fell-- the twin towers were hit by airplanes and 7 World Trade fell after catching fire and falling debris damaged it. Our Pentagon was hit by an airplane and there is was a hole in the ground where flight 93 hit. No one can add hype to the sadness.... tell that to the widows, widowers, children who lost parents, or those who never met their fathers because they died in 9/11 before they were born.
To dare and criticize how we AMERICANS memorialize 9/11 and have public memorial services is in poor taste on any given day, but completely unconscionable on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. I am glad that our country has chosen to NEVER FORGET and have public memorials. The families of the victims need to know that we still support them, love them and pray for them.
Here are a few pictures from my visit to NYC this past summer.... NEVER FORGET.
We should never forget. We pray for all the families, victims and survivors of 9/11. The US was criticized today for remembering and holding public memorial services with the family members of 9/11 victims. One lady told me that we should only remember the humanitarian triumph on that day. How does one forget the reason Fr. Judge was anointing victims when the towers collapsed and killed him? He wasn't anointing people because they spontaneously became ill or dropped dead. He was doing his job as a priest because terrorists flew airplanes into our twin towers. Saying what she said today.... using that logic, one would then have to forget the holocaust when remembering the sacrifice St. Kolbe made when he died for a Jewish man who had a wife and kids. Are we supposed to forget why he was in the concentration camp to begin with? Absolutely crazy.
I also read that we were adding hype to the sadness of 9/11 and that this is what has created the economic turmoil. Right. President Obama, his administration and our Congress passing the recent bill to increase the debt ceiling without really controlling spending had nothing to do with it. It was all that hype over 9/11. No one can add hype to the events of 9/11. 3 WTC towers fell-- the twin towers were hit by airplanes and 7 World Trade fell after catching fire and falling debris damaged it. Our Pentagon was hit by an airplane and there is was a hole in the ground where flight 93 hit. No one can add hype to the sadness.... tell that to the widows, widowers, children who lost parents, or those who never met their fathers because they died in 9/11 before they were born.
To dare and criticize how we AMERICANS memorialize 9/11 and have public memorial services is in poor taste on any given day, but completely unconscionable on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. I am glad that our country has chosen to NEVER FORGET and have public memorials. The families of the victims need to know that we still support them, love them and pray for them.
Here are a few pictures from my visit to NYC this past summer.... NEVER FORGET.
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| Reflecting pools from 7 World Trade |
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| Cross at Ground Zero |
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| inscription on cross |
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| view of ground zero from 7 World trade |
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| new Freedom tower-- it will be 1776 ft tall when complete |