Michael Lewis of the “Were Peter is” blog, seems to be experiencing blog-burn out. He calls it writer’s cramp, but blogs can be very fun for the author if for the author the blog is a fun hobby that he can live or live without. He wants someone else to take it over.
My most humble blog, in my mind, has always been just that, in my mind. Otherwise it boggles my mind that some weeks I have thousands of hits on certain posts. I think it is all make-believe and a return to my make-believe childhood.
My advise to Michael Lewis is not to take blogs and hits too seriously. Just have fun. Be happy, not sad.
Catholicism is not lived on blogs and comments made on blogs.
It is just a distraction, a diversion and it can be fun.
Catholicism is lived at home, in parishes and in the public square.
The great saints witness to us the genius of a great Catholic identity, a life lived in faith, hope and charity.
Catholicism is not completely based on doctrines, morals or liturgy, but on the Divine Person of Jesus Christ, which doctrines, morals and liturgies put Flesh upon.
In Christ do we find our true identity and our eternal salvation. It cannot be found any other legitimate way.
So to Mike Lewis and “Where Peter Is” blog, it’s not the pope or doctrine or morals we worship, but the Triune God. Yes, our identity is not a fierce individualism or just a God and me ideology, but Jesus the Head of the Church with His Body which is the fully initiated People of God.
But Catholicism isn’t magic. It demands our participation by God’s grace to accomplish all that God makes possible for us.
3 comments:
Mike Lewis tends to live a lot of life on Twitter. Tweeting at all hours of the night and wee hours of the morning, and so on. Recently, he went on a Roman pilgrimage and swore he would ignore his critics and haters (some of them just irrationally vile), but soon after began accusing people he disagrees with of espousing ideas from the bowels of hell and so on.
He needs a Twitter break, if not a total Internet break. The problem is, no one is policing him, as he accuses trads of not policing the likes of T. Marshall or Abp. Vigano (as if some random trad Tweeter with 82 followers is supposed to somehow rein in a high-profile grifter).
Ah, well. If it is of the Holy Spirit, he will see success, however God chooses to provide it. If not, he won't.
Nick
Mike Lewis has blessed me in many ways. I have viewed him as an overall positive force for the Church.
I wish that he had refrained from having responded to his vicious critics. Said engagements drained him of much time and energy.
I pray that Mister Lewis continues to serve God via X, as well as the excellent, important, Where Peter Is blog.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
— Saint Augustine: "...the primacy of the Apostles is preeminent in Peter in virtue of a more excellent grace; that this primacy of the apostolate is to be preferred to all episcopal dignity; that the Roman Church, the See of Peter, is that rock which the proud gates of hell cannot vanquish."
He is talented, but young and over the top ultramontane. Adulation of any person in the Church, from the pope on down, leads to a skewed view of Catholicism. A critical eye on things that need to be critiqued is necessary for a mature Catholicism.
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