When I started this weblog, it was with every intention of posting reflections on the daily readings, and my weekend Homilies as articles. I was doing that as early as 2003 in an anonymous little blog called Back on the Soapbox.
I only kept it during an internship that I was doing, and it eventually suffered from the same sort of self consciousness that invaded all of my online writing during formation. (Who needed a weblog coming up for discussion in an EVALUATION?)
Actually I was posting reflections in 2009 when I sort of resurrected this project. But then I became concerned with the photos I was publishing, and ultimately got involved in photography and photoshop. So now I post photos that I’ve tried to photoshop into looking decent, and it’s somehow become a quasi photoblog because I find photo retouching relaxing. For the most part.
But I’m still firmly intent on getting back to posting those reflections. So, if you think this is somehow just another post with photoshopped pictures or documents just hang on to your hats a minute. If you don’t practice something you’re never going to get any better at it you know.
I know… I know. You already know that.
But the truth of the matter is, that you’re absolutely correct if you are making those assumptions. Sorry. And to make matters worse, these are just scanned and then poorly cleaned up.
I’m working on a few projects around here these days, and in cleaning some things around the office came across a mysterious binder stored with the glassware.
It’s a collection of diocesan correspondence from back in the 60’s, and one of the communiques were the instructions on the Death of Pope John XXIII. It’s interesting to look at the wording, to see how much things have changed in the last 48 years.
Also included were some general instructions for Holy Week 1963. (Clicking on them will produce a legible copy, if you’re so inclined.)
With the new translation coming up in Advent, it’s good to look at things which were published before the old new translation, the one from the 70’s came out, around the very same time that Imagine came out.
So! That about wraps that up. I really must go ponder upon my Homily now.