Easter Course Correction
It's 8:01 AM on Easter Sunday morning and I am wondering if I should make a significant course correction to this blog. Specifically, I am asking the Holy Spirit whether I should stop publishing five paragraphs every week on Friday evenings at 5 PM ET and instead start publishing as many paragraphs as needed once daily at noon.
After praying on it for an hour, I have decided to try daily noontime publication for one week. I will evaluate the results next Sunday morning. My tentative new blog description is "Published Daily at Noon Eastern."
Do I need to publish anything more than this today, Holy Spirit? Should I continue further on with this same line of thought, or switch to a different topic, either in this entry or in the entry for tomorrow? Ah, well I see that I have Easter messages to consider. I have Vatican News English, the White House, Bishop Robert Barron, Washington National Cathedral, the IDF, and Blessed by His Word all with uplifting Easter messages to review on my YouTube feed - a feed that I might check more often than I should, but this is a question for a different part of the rule. Right now, in this entry, I am trying to stay focused on my eremitic rule for blogging.
Is it a maximum of one post a day at noon, made up of as many paragraphs as needed, that I am laying down for myself as my provisional new rule (at least until next Sunday)?
The limit to a single paragraph a day feels rather confining. My previous limit of five paragraphs a week was even more confining than this. But an unlimited number of paragraphs a day on an unlimited number of main ideas will surely lead to mental and spiritual dispersion.
I am going to allow myself up to five entries a day, all published at noon local time, and all made up of as many paragraphs as needed, but each post must be limited to a single main topic.
The main topic of this post is Blogging Rules. I introduced two separate topics that also need my attention this week - Easter Messages and YouTube Rules - but these topics were not the main focus of this post.
The image at the top is from the cover of a book that is available on Amazon called The Monastic Rule of Saint Columba. However, according to a quick look at Wikipedia, this is probably an error. Saint Columba and Saint Columbanus are two distinct people. The Monastic Rule was written by Saint Columbanus (543-615 AD), not Saint Columba (521-597 AD). The rule, in ten parts, is available as a free PDF here. This is from Chapter 2, verse 2, on silence: "Therefore, so as not to be accused of verbosity, one must maintain silence except for useful and necessary matters. For according to Scripture, 'In much talking there will be sin' (Proverbs 10:19)."
I conclude with a prayer to the Holy Spirit for future insight: In what ways does the ancient rule of silence apply to contemporary eremitic blogging?

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