First Friday arrived for August the other day, and with it a new blog here at stblogs.org: Sr. Cora Lombardo has started the site Caritas Christi to share the depths of the love of God which are to be found in the Heart of Christ. Sr. Cora is a member of the religious community The Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and serves as the DRE at St. Paul Parish in West Haven, CT.
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Don Marco (Fr. Mark Daniel Kirby) is a Cistercian monk of the Abbey of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem in Rome, and chaplain to the Benedictines of Jesus Crucified in Branford, CT. Readers of Fr. Keyes' blog will already be familiar with Don Marco, as his homilies have been posted there already from time to time.
His weblog takes as its theme The Face of Christ. Welcome aboard!
I've upgraded the blog software to Movable Type 3.32 and moved the blogs to a different server machine. I hope this will help resolve some access-control problems that authors and commenters have run into recently. My previous hosting provider's attempts to improve security were behind most of them.
It's not unusual to hear a person say "I'm between jobs", having left one and seeking another.
Mark Windsor's new blog is for people who are "between churches". As it happens, he spent a long time in between, before he became a Catholic; now he's offering some company to Anglican friends who have set out to find another communion, whichever one it may turn out to be.
He calls the site Rafting the Tiber.
Sorry for the outage. The hosting company's having a rough year for reliability, apparently: two disk failures on the same machine so far.
As you can tell by the appearance of the site, CL is under construction while I'm rebuilding it under MT 3.
There are a couple of changes for end-users. Commenters can sign on through the TypeKey service, and occasionally comments will be held for review before they appear on the site if the spam-blocking software raises any warnings about the text.
James Preece, the proprietor of Catholic and Loving It has launched http://uk.stblogs.org/, a reference point for Catholic blogs in the British Isles. Congratulations, James!
No, that's actually not a joke, although it's more of a "gathering" than a convention. Next month, I'm going on Nameless Entity business to Ottawa. Naturally, I am going to meet with Pete Vere (we've never met in person.) He has invited fellow Catholic Light readers John Pacheco and Tim Ferguson as well. Are there any other Canadian readers who want to have dinner with us? My trip is tentatively scheduled for the week of Feb. 14, though I'm 90% sure it'll happen then.
It's time to make up a new background image for the blog. I've realized that color gradients are overused and not as interesting as they used to be. Here's a sample with some more, um, structure to it.
Update: A more muted version is on the sample page now. Thanks for all the great comments, and feel free to participate again.
I'd like this so I can use an aggregator to read the blogs. It's much more convenient than reading them in a web browser. I remember seeing some kind soul had exported a file with all the feeds but I can't remember who has it. If anyone out there knows who generated this or where I can get a list please let me know!
Thanks!
