Nov 01 2008
October Glory
If you don’t count July, when, thanks to Mark Windsor, Mark Shea, Jeff Miller, and Dom Bettinelli linked to the St. Peter Canisius Apostolate, October brought me my most visitors since I started this apostolate. In fact, this fine month brought me my most visitors in one month since I’ve been blogging — which dates back to October 2006. It was certainly a good way to start this blog.
I attribute this success to three factors:
1. I began publishing the Jesus and the Catholic Church Podcast.
2. I was able to post almost every day on a wide assortment of topics.
3. Google, Yahoo, and other search engines are finally starting to notice my humble abode here.
By the end of 2008, I’d like to see this blog double in readers and the Jesus and the Catholic Church Podcast double in listeners. According to FeedBurner, about 85 people read this blog and about 15 listen to the podcast.
So here’s my goal for the end of 2008: about 170 readers and about 30 listeners.
What can you do to help? A number of things:
1. If you have a blog, would you mind linking to me in a post? Perhaps find a post you particularly enjoyed and link to it.
2. If you don’t have a blog, would you mind emailing a friend or two who you’d think would enjoy what I do here, and let them know about me?
3. If you don’t already listen to the Jesus and the Catholic Church Podcast, why not try listening to tomorrow’s episode, which is on the Blessed Mother, and see what you’re missing?
4. If you listen to the podcast and like what you hear, would you mind sending a friend or two a note letting them know about it?
5. Also, if you listen to the Podcast, would you mind voting for it over at Podcast Alley or leaving a review of it at iTunes? Little things like that help a lot.
I thank all of you for taking your time to read this blog and listen to my podcast. It’s very humbling.
Dear Jeff: Congrats on your excellent site. We need a map of the US (like there is for Latin masses and Bishop accountablity) for authentic catechesis. Steer clear of LA where I grew up. Have you seen Will your grandchildren be catholic by Daphne Mcleod? or Loss and retrieval of the holy trinity in catechesis by Caroline Farey? Dial up http://www.crc-internet.org/HIR05/August36_1.htm Abbe de Nantes, a suspended French priest finds that the CCC is full of heresies. He wrote about it when the CCC first appeared in 1993 and sent a copy to Card. Ratzinger. 12 years later Benedict XVI issued the compendium which Abbe de Nantes says is free of heresy. Kind regards, Anthony Sistrom (Eureka, California) When you dial up note that in HIR05 the last two characters are numerals.
Hi Anthony,
Thanks for the comment and for calling my site “excellent.” I certainly appreciate it.
However, I’m a bit concerned about the link in your comment. I can’t go along with anyone who believes that the Catechism is “full of heresies.” That’s the road to schism and heterodoxy. Given the tumult the Church is in today, it’s certainly tempting to want to return to the “old ways” and the “pre-Vatican II” days. But to do that, it seems to me, is tantamount to rejecting the Holy Spirit.
The Church constantly challenges us. It doesn’t matter if we’re tradionally or progressively minded. Our only goal should be what St. Paul calls the obedience of faith.
God bless.
Jeff, I’m curious - the Facebook page doesn’t come up. Have you taken it down or is there something further one has to do to get to it?
Peter –
Yes, I took it down. The problem was that I was becoming too addicted to Facebook myself. It was great seeing what my old high school buds were up to, but I was soon thinking too much about the past and about the life that might have been. Not very healthy, me thinks. So I canceled my account, which, in effect, canceled the Apostolate’s Facebook page. Oh well.
I updated this post, deleting the link to Facebook.
That is certainly a reasonable precaution. And I’ll add an “excellent” myself as well.
Thanks, Peter — it means a lot.