An Early Christmas

It is fun to create something that has amused other people and I was pretty happy with the notice given by the trifecta of Catholic blogging Kathy Shaidle, Amy Welborn, and Mark Shea. It is quite another surprise to receive the massive avalanche of hits from The Corner via Jonah Goldberg. So while my head is still below the mass of planetary systems I would also like to give thanks to those bloggers above and also to others that have linked to my avazon.com parody. Kat Lively, Dale Price, Gregory Popcak, John Betts, The Meandering Mind of a Seminarian, Fr. Bryce Sibley, David Ancell, Peppermint Patty, TS O'Rama, Jeanetta, Victor Lams, Confessions of a Recovering Choir Director and anybody else that I might have missed.

Special thanks to Michelle of And Then? whose satire suggestion this time and in the past have born fruit.

Here is something I wrote on a previous occasion which seems appropriate now

The Litany of Blog Humility

From the desire of my blog being read
Deliver me dear Jesus
From the desire of my blog being praised
Deliver me dear Jesus
From the fear of my blog being despised
Deliver me dear Jesus
From the fear of my blog being forgotten
Deliver me dear Jesus
From the fear of no page views
Deliver me dear Jesus
That other blogs may be loved more than mine
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it
That Nihil Obstat may find all my grammatical and spelling errors
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it
That Google may never list my blog
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it
That comments always be negative and abusive
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it
That my commenting system always say "commenting temporarily unavailable"
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it
That Mark Shea may notice every blog but mine
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it
That others may be pithier than I, provided that I may become as pithy as I should
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it