Friday Morning Thinking Out Loud.
A post about nothing.
I’m busy with things, so blogging may be light - maybe not. But I’ll do an Eric here - only I won’t do links.
The Bishop-elect.
At Mass this morning, Father mentioned Fr. Peter’s appointment as Bishop-elect of Superior - bishops are ordained, so until that happens they are bishop-elect. (Fr. Peter likes to be called Fr. Peter.) Our priest mentioned Fr. Peter needed prayers because of the upcoming civil trial concerning Ryan Erickson, the priest who hanged himself after murdering two funeral home workers, one of whom was probably going to expose his predilection for teenage boys. I feel sorry for Fr. Peter! He can handle it though.
Erickson.
Fr. Erickson was a nut - very fond of traditional things, liturgy, devotions, vestments, cassocks, capes, etc.. (Nothing wrong with that, but it was a superficial obsession in his case.) Fiery, impassioned preacher, hellfire and brimstone, but pretty much a fruitcake otherwise. Of course, he had psychological problems, but he was “practiced at the art of deception.”
Immigrants.
As I’m coming into the house, an Asian neighbor stops to ask if I got my landscape materials free. Huh? I realized that being an immigrant, he was accustomed to getting a lot of things free. I politely explained to him that in this country everyone pretty much has to buy everything they want or need. I also asked him if his wife would please stop carrying their garbage over to the park and disposing of it in the trash bin there. He acted like he didn’t understand what I was saying.
New Archbishop.
The new coadjutor Archbishop will be installed today at the Cathedral in St. Paul. I never attend these things.
Blogs.
I was thinking this morning about weblogs again. If you write about the Pope, or Roman things, or especially ride the JPII celebrity cult bandwagon, it is kind of an instant imprimatur for your writings isn’t it? Have you noticed that?
I’ve been doing some silly posts about stats and hits and comments people get, playing around with the popularity idea - for fun really - or to poke fun at some of the ‘elite’ weblogger’s apparent sense of self-importance - not any of my blogging buddies or those in my blogroll! I love all of you! (Inspired, I might add, by Western Confucian’s post title, “What will it profit a man if he gains the whole blogosphere yet loses his soul.”) Provocative thought, don’t you agree?
Still, the question continues to hound me; what are weblogs anyway? What is their purpose? Who writes them? What does the blog really say?
What else?
What is the term they use for women who cruise seminaries for a prospective husband, or those who work in a parish and marry the priest - after he is laicized that is? I know there is a term for it younger women use, I just can’t think of it.
That’s all for now.
