Sometimes I get weary about blogging because of the time it takes and some days it seems so boring. So I ask questions like: is it useful, for whom am I writing, for what reason, is this just an ego-trip, etc. I came across a few lines of Pope John Paul II which gives me slight encouragement. He said:
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This page contains a single entry by Paul Zalonski published on March 27, 2009 11:26 AM.
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Be encouraged, brother, by what the Spirit is saying to the churches and by John Paul II. All ministries entail the spiritual blind-alley of vainglory and the pitfall of tedium.
To me, we Catholic bloggers must see ourselves as a leaven in the world of the internet. There is so much misinformation and degradation present as soon as the mind conceives a search term and the fingers can manipulate a mouse. I have no doubt that the darker aspects of this technology are putting a lot of souls in peril and are destroying families, marriages, and religious and priestly vocations.
Our ministry is to try to open a path for the Holy Spirit to bring the divine remedy into the new frontier.