The Heart of the Matter

It's contagious!

This blog thing is contagious!  Our sometime, in-residence Paulist priest, Father Terry Ryan, now has his own blog.  It's to be found at www.frterrysspiritualstuff.blogspot.com

Being a Paulist, his congregation's main push is to reach people with the Gospel through teaching and preaching.  You'll more than likely meet Paulists at university campuses.  In fact, Father Terry spent years of his life in university parishes here in Colorado and in Tennesee.

Check out his blog for his homilies and his spiritual "stuff."  Oh, by the way, he really gets a bang out of his new cell phone!

Snafu solved

Blogging is a great way to communicate with all of our parishioners and school families - if things work right!  Some glitch recently happened that prevented the subscibers from getting the latest blog postings in your e-mail.  That problem has now been solved. 

Hopefully you subscribers are now receiving regular e-mails from my blog. 

If you are a subscriber and have missed June's postings, please go to www.fatherbillsblog.com and scroll down to read all about our principal, Jan Altevogt, our need to pray for her, our need to replace her as our principal on an interim basis for one year and begin our search for a long term replacement. 

As soon as we know when she will undergo her medical procedure, I'll post the update here and invite you to join in on a day of prayer for her on that day. 

A coming hiatus

Next week I will be traveling for a few weeks to Turkey, Greece, Sicily, Croatia and Italy; and I am not sure if I will be able to post a blog while away.  I'll try, because I enjoy this.  In the meantime, this space will have a YouTube version of my presenting the meat and potatoes of our Parish Town Hall Meetings.  If you subscribe to this blog and get it in your e-mail, the YouTube may not show up.  If that's the case, go directly to the blog at www.fatherbillsblog.com and check out what I have to say. 

A question about blogging

Some of the feedback I've gotten about this blog is the following kind of comment:  "Thank you, Father Bill.  I really like your blog.  I am wondering if we can ask questions of you in this medium."

The answer is: yes!  In fact, that's my hope, that there can be ongoing dialogue between readers and me.  The way to make your comment or ask your question is simple.

Right below the text of this posting is a line with the time of this posting, then Weblogs / Permalink / Comments (0) / Trackback (0)

Here's what you do:  Click Comment and then you will be led on how to make your comment or ask your question. When I see that the (O) becomes (1) then I will comment back in the same space. Try it!

What's this "Feedburner" thing in the middle column?

At the top of the middle column of this blog there is a box with a "Subscribe" button that is delivered by FeedBurner.  FeedBurner is a means to have each posting of my blog delivered directly to your e-mail.  In other words, if you have been finding my blog postings worthwhile, then you could type in your e-mail address (in the place indicated) to arrange for automatic delivery of each new posting of my blog to your e-mail.  Once you press "Subscribe" you will get a warbled set of letters to type in.  This makes you and me safe from marauding spammers.  Check it out.  Sometimes, I have noticed, the picture I have selected for display in the posting does not come through in the e-mail version.  Most of the time it does, but if it doesn't, then just go on your browser and type in www.fatherbillsblog.com