My dear friends, I'm sorry to be a complainer, but I really am blogged out. Once again I'm lacking in inspiration and motivation and I'm about to close down the blog. Then my boy comes home from camp and tells me that not only does his counselor at camp read my blog, but so does his Catholic room mate and furthermore, he reads out all the alter egos with special voices.
So here is someone who likes my blog so much he does Caitlin O'Rourke for his college buddies?
I have to keep going. I just hope I find where I left my muse.
Hang in there, Father. I like everything you write.
ReplyDeleteKeep going father! I love your insights and level headedness. You don't have to blog everyday, or even every week.
ReplyDeleteDear Father, I finally took a vacation after 13 years of go, go, go... . Dang near wiped myself out. Well, two strokes later, I finally managed to pry myself away and found that my muse really liked 15 glorious days snorkelling, swimming, reading, wandering, visiting parishes and daily Mass in Maui. Feeling more like myself every day.
ReplyDeleteDo what you have to do, because I would sure miss your input if this blog stopped.
BTW - you could write about the colour of paper and it would still be a thousand times more interesting than the rest of the stuff on the net.
You have 736 known fans! And a true gift of communication, which I believe our dear Lord would like for you to continue using for his glory, not to mention educating countless numbers of cradle Catholics who have no idea why we do what we do. Relax and it will come to you.
ReplyDeleteWe agree with Old Bob, Jeff & Torculus... we appreciate all of your writing and hope you continue blogging, even if you do so only occasionally.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you could get your son's counselor's roommate to make mp3 files of all the alter egos' posts & give them to you to post for the rest of us to enjoy when your muse takes a break.
Please keep blogging ... when you can. Your Muse probably does need a vacation! Perhaps she will meet a new alter ego?
ReplyDeleteI love your blog. I would really miss it if it disappeared. I only read a few blogs. Yours is exceptional because you have a unique way of cutting right to the heart of a matter, stating your points in a few well-chosen words, and then appearing to calmly (and perhaps with a smile) move on to the next important thing on your long list of things to do.
ReplyDeleteReally, the absence of wisdom and good sense in today's world cannot be under-estimated. Sometimes what you write is just what I need to read to sort of keep my bearings in a rather weird world. Also, your perspective on Catholicism is enriched by your path through other religious traditions.
But sometimes it's good to take a break. I take breaks from my blog now and then. It helps me get perspective.
I hope you keep blogging. By the way, we pray for you by name in our night prayers. God bless.
Kay
I love reading your blog, but please don't feel pressured to post a certain number of times per week.
ReplyDeleteAs most of your excellent (serious) articles are on modernism, why not compile them into a new website/blog on the errors of modernism?
ReplyDeleteI love Michael Voris, but he's rather too caustic often verging on detraction, whereas yours are hard-hitting, yet far more charitable.
You have several which run as a mini series, and could be posted as such, too, so they could be categorised into 'On Protestantism', 'On Liturgy', etc..
Or maybe get together with a few other like-minds who could blog on it, too, like the great ex-PCA/OPC fellows over on Called to Communion, or Michael Barber, John Bergsma, and Brant Pitre at 'Sacred Page'?
Frankly, I'm amazed you've done what you have!
Just a couple of suggestions...
If a non-blogger were to ask me about blogger, I would mention you in my description of it.
ReplyDeleteSo what on earth are you talking about?! Leave blogger indeed. What utter nonsense, what's put this idea back into your head? I think the blogging year has it's quiet times, but there's bound to be some hot topic that needs spiritual direction on soon and we can't be left to our own vices (sorry devices) as we get carried away with ourselves.
Also, the world being the way it is, you might be needed to help foister(sp?) men's spirits. I mean that seriously. Blokes need to know they are doing a good job, whatever the economical climate.
Maybe that's what you need reassuring in aswell?
Right then, listen up! You are needed, wanted and loved.
So write already!
PS Sorry if we don't say that too often Father D. Maybe we take you for granted.....
Dear Father,
ReplyDeleteI concur with the others...
I love your blog, and would miss it if it were gone. But you have to follow the Holy Spirit, and do what you have to do.
Perhaps a short vacation, or blogging only occasionally would work.
Listen to your heart and take care of yourself. We'd miss you, but we'd survive if you stopped blogging.
And thanks for all that you do!!! (I'm reading More Christianity now.)
blumen said:
ReplyDelete"We'd miss you, but we'd survive if you stopped blogging."
I might not. I might slip into even more protestant ways..........it's not worth the risk.
Fr. L,
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Y987Uf1wY
Nuff said.
Dear Father Dwight,
ReplyDeleteYou and we have been through all this before, and you and we know you'll bounce back. Don't worry about it; the Potter knows what His human vessels are made of.
You must keep going especially as you lived in England ( where I am) and so understand both sides of the pond. God Bless you.
ReplyDeleteDear Fr. Dwight,
ReplyDeleteMy son has just returned from a second summer as a counselor at the camp your sons attend. You have no idea what your visits - and especially your wisdom as a confessor - have meant to him. While I've been a reader of your blog for quite some time, Joe began reading you after he met you a year ago. Speaking as one father to another, our sons need as many examples of godly manhood as possible. You provide such an example, and your blog makes your continued influence possible even when those who look up to you are half a continent away. I hope your dry spell is brief, and that you feel led to continue writing here. I thank you for all you have done for my son by way of counsel and example, and I thank you for your priesthood. I wish you every blessing.
Fr. Frank Bass
Maybe you could get your son's counselor's roommate to make mp3 files of all the alter egos' posts & give them to you to post for the rest of us to enjoy when your muse takes a break.
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What a great idea, he...heck sell the series, it would be hit, Especially the breathless Catilin. Oh please do it, (and make a little money on the side) why not
Fr. Dwight,
ReplyDeleteWhy not post your Sunday sermons on the blog as a regular weekly item and then you can have mini-blog gaps when you're busy or finding it hard to come up with material?
Father,
ReplyDeleteI like your blog, but not enough to read it with different voices. People already think I'm weird enough! I only have about ten blogs linked on my blog, and your's is one of them. Keep up the good blogging!
unless i can move back to greenville & hear your homilies, i beg you to keep blogging... :-)
ReplyDeleteThat old muse has a way of appearing when you don't expect her to. A short while ago, I wrote a blog post in which I apologised for the lack of updates, explaining that this time of year is usually quite slow when it comes to exciting things to write about, so to speak. I also wrote that that would probably continue for a while longer. Guess what happened next? I suddenly had things to write about and inspiration to do so.
ReplyDeleteDon feel pressured to write often. It's your blog, Father. We'll keep on reading when you write.
Please, do continue. As a Lutheran pastor, I especially appreciate your candor, and your faithfulness to your confession. I don't always agree with you (surprise, suprise), but that's what makes it so interesting, and thought-provoking. Peace brother. Keep giving 'em Jesus, and keep giving us the posts.
ReplyDeleteRev. Keith R. Weise
St. Louis, Missouri
Maybe you could blog about some of the numerous items you've written about on your website; maybe some of those topics would be good. I love to learn about the faith and always need to know more to do what I can to defend the faith. I read an article a few months back that Archbishop Dolan had written about someone that had approached him about the priest abuse. It would be great for others to know the statistics about this to combat the hatred of others towards all Catholic priests...just a thought. Putting your weekly sermons on here would be great!
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting to see the reactions when people ask me how I came to send my daughter to Camp Kahdalea this summer. I tell them this priest named Longenecker has a blog and it sounded just right! Thanks for writing about it. We had no idea of where to send her, and she had a great time. That's just one of the "small" but important things you've done for someone on the 'net.
ReplyDeleteYou post whenever you want, and we'll wait patiently for the little nuggets of pure brilliance. I know you say you're burned out, but some of the rather open-ended stuff you've posted this week has been touching in its raw honesty. You don't need to be brilliant all the time, just real. (And for the record, my son loves when I read him Caitlin O'Rourke.)
ReplyDeleteI read all of the alter egos out loud to my children in funny voices. They love it, especially when I read Mantilla.
ReplyDeleteTake a break if you need to, but please don't take these charming additions to our lives away. (Was that enough Catholic mom guilt? If not I can give it another try.)
Please keep on blogging. You are a lighthouse in the darkness!
ReplyDeleteHey Father! You must have gotten your second wind because you followed with several corkers!
ReplyDeleteTake a break when you need but you obviously still have a lot to say... Don't be so hard on yourself when you temporarily run out of ideas.