Blog Update
Blog Necromancer!
I’m back! And hopefully for good this time.
Truth be told, my writer’s itch gets scratched through weekly homily composition. Writing a homily is a lot like blogging: they both center around fact-analysis in an attempt to relate something the writer deems important enough for the audience to hear. Plus, giving a homily is more immediately gratifying, as reactions to what you say prove whether or not you’ve missed the mark.
Homiletics makes it difficult to blog. Before all, blogging should be fun, and one should have some latitude to write on whatever he or she chooses. But as a priest, I feel like my blog should have theological content above all; and yet, at the end of the day I don’t feel like writing about theology, since I spend all day surrounded by it either in private study, prayer, ministry, or homiletics.
So, as a sort of Advent resolution, I’ve resolved to just plain write on whatever. Writing is good for me, no matter how it comes or where it goes.
At any rate, I am — once again — back.
BONUS! BONUS! BONUS! ARTWORK! ARTWORK! ARTWORK!
Prints available upon request.
Site Rehaul!
Due to a sleepless night, the site has a new design. I’m rather happy with it, save a few issues getting the text to appear exactly as I want it for optimal reading.
More posts to follow.
The Last Post…
…which was cross-linked elsewhere today, has been taken down after prayerful consideration.
Not because I believe any of it was essentially false, but because it was read by a number of people who apparently misunderstood — for whatever reason — what I was intending to convey. And if what I’ve conveyed misses the mark, bad post.
Ultimately, I think I failed in expressing frustration and sorrow, which was the driving emotion of my post, and I believe people read my tone as if I were spewing them out of my mouth, to borrow a phrase. I also should have done a better job in voicing my legitimate care and concern for individuals who have been wronged by people in the Church over time.
This was not at all my intention in criticizing the article, discussed here. Part of my accepting the call of Our Savior to the priesthood was in the realization that I could bring something positive to the Church by dedicating my life to Her, in a time where the Church is in need of young men and women with a love for the Lord.
Perhaps this is why the topic of people going the other way evokes such a passion within me.
At any rate: mea culpa.
My Back Pages
Finally finding a little free time, I managed to update the blog layout. The purpose of the change was to bring the format of the blog out of 2007 and into the newfangled world of 2010.
Ok, you got me: the real purpose was just to dink around with site design, something I like enough to make things look right, but not enough to make things look original.
Comments didn’t disappear. You can find them in each particular post, by clicking the title header.
Gone, But (You’re) Not Forgotten
Howdy! It’s me. Remember me?
My Internet access situation has been rectified, and I’m back in action. I’m also finally developing something of a daily routine here in St. Louis, even though I’m terribly busy with a long work week at the hospital. I’m living in a great parish, and the pastor here has been nothing less than wonderful, so I’m feeling pretty good about the “domestic” part of the summer.
I’m going to blog when possible (now that I have relatively consistent access to the intertubes), but it will be slow-going over the next two months or so. With overnight shifts on top of a 40-hour work week, they keep us going.
Just so you know, I’ve also accepted a generous invitation from Joshua Claybourn to blog over at In the Agora, a group project I’ve followed since its inception. Hopefully I’ll be able to add a “Roman” perspective to the proceedings there.
Until next time…
The Archives
Thanks to all readers who have written in with their tips on restoring the archives. Hopefully I’ll figure it out this week sometime.
Meanwhile, you’re in my prayers.
Host Migration Complete. Sort of.
In changing hosting services (a process much more time consuming than I hoped it’d be), apparently WordPress ate my archives. At first, only a few were missing. Now, everything seems to be missing. Hopefully I can make some sense out of the backups I made.
What a long, frustrating night.
At any rate, I hope you all have a wonderful Baptism of the Lord!