Aug 23 2008
Refresh
As I mentioned a few days ago, I was out of town over the weekend. The time away from home also meant a time away from the blog, and it provided me time to reflect on what I’ve been doing around here.
Despite the number of kind comments I’ve received, I’m not entirely happy with my work so far. The source of my unhappiness is that I’ve allowed myself to get caught up with trying to post every day. This goal is immensely time consuming when each post is about the length of an op-ed piece — between 500-750 words. And I think the quality of posts has suffered because I’m working so fast.
Also, I think I’ve lost sight of the purpose of this blog. As I said in the Mission Statement: “The St. Peter Canisius Apostolate is a work dedicated to providing Catholics with solid and penetrating instruction of Catholic teaching. I strive to elucidate the teachings of the Church with Sacred Scripture, the writings of the early Church Fathers, the Doctors of the Church, and most importantly with the official catechisms of the Church, the writings of the Popes, and the Church’s twenty-one Ecumenical Councils.” Instead of focusing on Church teaching, I’ve been trying to elucidate the writings of the early Church Fathers and St. Thomas Aquinas. In other words, this blog has become theological, not catechetical.
Finally, I want to start working on a podcast called A Walk Through the Catechism. This podcast was one of the primary reasons why I wanted to start the St. Peter Canisius Apostolate. It’s been in the works now for almost two months, which is about a month too long. But I can’t work on the podcast while also maintaining a post-a-day pace.
So here’s what I plan to do:
1. Post only two or three times a week. This should give me more time to focus on the podcast.
2. Make Tuesdays with St. Thomas catechetical in nature. To do this, I’m going to drop my series on St. Thomas’s understanding of happiness and return to commenting on his catechesis of the Apostles’ Creed.
3. Make Fridays with the Church Fathers thematic in nature. Instead of random passages each week, I’m going to focus on 10-week topics.
4. I’m going to continue with my reflections on Sacroscantum Concilium because I not only think they’re going well, I think they fulfill one of the goals of the Apostolate: To elucidate Catholic doctrine from the writings of the Church’s ecumenical councils.
Thank you for not giving up and for continuing to share your insight and research. You continuing efforts are much appreciated.
I think that’s fine. One needs to keep spiritually centered and avoid forces that disturb tranquility. (like I’m one to talk - but at least I know this is true from VAST experience)
Makes sense.
It would be cool if you could get your podcast listed with iTunes!
Hey guys, thanks for the comments.
Will, regarding the podcast — I’m pretty much flying by the seat of my pants here. To be truthful, I didn’t know what a podcast was until a few months ago. I’m still trying to figure out the basics of podcasting. I haven’t even thought about how to publicize it. Do you have any idea how to get it listed with iTunes?
I think I might be the only person left in the world w/o an ipod.
The other changes sound good though.
BY. I don’t have an ipod either.