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Sunday, July 06, 2008

Calumnious Blogging.

I was reading an article in the June issue of 'Homiletic & Pastoral Review' by Rev. Michael Orsi. He wrote about Blogging and sin which really caught my attention. I don't think I will ever post anything to my Blogs again without making sure that I am not calumniating anyone or making derogatory comments without reason.
Believe me, I love to post things on the Internet about Our Faith, Marian Apparitions and Pro-Life news and items. I guess when I worked for United Press International and after that for WNEW TV News in New York City, I never got it out of my blood. I loved taking pictures of News Events, going to all the big news stories that were happening or even just pulling copy off the teletype for the reporters to read and write. But I never wrote a news story, and I usually don't write any now. But posting other people's work can be a problem too. Sure I have permission to reprint but what am I reprinting and posting? I have to read through everything and make sure what I am posting will not be malicious and sinful. Another problem is the Anonymous commenter who likes to rave and rant about what I have posted but refuses to reveal who he or she is. Are we such cowards that we can't stand up for what we believe or is what you are posting a lie or gossip? As Fr. Orsi says: 'truth is the only basis on which a society can be built."

Here are some recommendations from the article in my own words:

1. Homilists should speak on the Eight Commandment regarding calumny and detraction.

2. People should be warned that not everything is true when reading a blog.

3. Anonymous responses should be disregarded.

4. A vicious blog can mean the writer has a psychological problem or is just evil.

5. Stay away from blogs that are unedifying and demeaning.

6. Stay away from a blog that promotes porn.

7. Ignore calumnious individuals, don't respond to them.

8. Calumnious blogging is a serious sin, jeopardizing their immortal souls.

9. Don't judge another person's character based on what you read on a blog.

10. Keep in mind the words of Isaiah 33:15: "He who acts with integrity, who speaks sincerely . . . this man will dwell in the heights."

Thank You Fr. Orsi!

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

Sunday, July 06, 2008

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