Prima Pars

It seems only fitting that the first humble post at my very humble attempt to add something of interest to the vast array of uninteresting information on the internet should be an explanation or sorts. Why establish a web log? My own Bishop has given the charge for the laity to think about their part in the catechesis and evangelization of Holy Mother Church. I suppose that has something to do with it. At the same time, I have been looking for a way to share with others those interesting books, documents, and articles that are influencing my own faith journey.

To be sure, I am not a theologian nor a philosopher, except in the sense that we are all theologians and philosophers, or should be anyway. I am, however, an avid reader of all things Catholic. I have nothing new to offer the world of web logs, save perhaps the opportunity to create a new amalgamation of other people's thoughts.

Indeed, I have always seen myself as a great plagiarist, as one who is standing on the shoulders of giants looking over the vast thought of those who have gone before me. (Even in this description of myself, I have plagiarized C.S. Lewis.) Nonetheless, as has been pointed out in a recent post on Sacred Music (The New Liturgical Movement), "The idea was first to defer to the glory of what had existed and what did exist before daring to make one's own humble contribution to the edifice of what became the treasury of sacred music." Whether I have any "humble contribution to the edifice" of Catholic thought is doubtful, but certainly I can aide in bringing that edifice to my own friends and family.

Ad maiorem Gloriam Dei.