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I am back...as a Priest!

10/20/2014

Well, after a year plus, I am back and I hope to be able to maintain this site much better than my previous attempts. As you may already know, I was ordained to the Catholic Priesthood on June 7, 2014. The good news is that I am done with seminary. The better news is that I am a PRIEST!! I am now assigned to St. Dominic Catholic Church in Security, Colorado. If you are in the area, please feel free to stop by and say “Hi”. While the rigors of academia are over, the demands of being a parish priest have begun. It is like life at light speed and I am enjoying every minute of it.

Over the next few weeks I will be adding new material to my website here such as a page for my recorded Sunday homilies, new photos and a few other ideas I am thinking about. I hope that the content and a more timely updated blog will peak your interest and bring more readers on board. For you dedicated fans (All 3 of you J) thank you for sticking with me.

This is all for now as I want to update other parts of my site (like changing the word “Deacon” to “priest”). I wish you all a wonderful day and I hope to chat more with you soon.

New Assignment

6/5/2013

It is good to be back in a parish!!! Yesterday I started my assignment as St. Joseph the Worker Parish in Southgate (the southern tip of Colorado Springs). It is a parish of about 1,500 families and I am looking forward to my two months here. The pastor, Fr. Gregory Golyzniak has been so very warm and welcoming. I eagerly anticipate this coming Sunday where I get to meet the whole parish.

This being my first week, I am spending the time trying to get settled in, meet the staff and wrap up some leftover items. The Bishop has also been kind enough to allow me to serve as Deacon at some of the Diocesan events this week, so there is no lack of work. As I get adjusted to my new routine, I hope to return to more regular and frequent blogging. Of course, if you have a topic you would like me to address, a question to ask or a suggestion, those are always greatly appreciated. In the mean time, please continue to pray for our Holy Mother Church, Her Clergy, vocations and our men and women in uniform. See you at the Tabernacle!

Ordination

5/28/2013

As I slow down to below light speed...

The ordination was WONDERFUL and now the busyness of friends, relatives, receptions and dinners begins to be replaced by the everyday schedule. What a FANTASTIC time the last week has been. Thank you to all who were able to join me for my ordination to the Transitional Diaconate and to all of you who sent in kind words and supported me with prayer.

It seems like the last month has been a blur. I think it started with finals and rapidly accelerated. It is nice to know that I only have one year left at the seminary. I am sure that will go by very quickly and before I know it, I will be writing about my ordination to the Priesthood.

I hope to have pictures of my Ordination back in the near future from the photographer and when I do, I will post them on the site, so stay tuned. I also hope to return to more regular postings once I move into my new assignment. You may also note that the subtitle of this site has changed. Speaking of assignments, I will be serving at St. Joseph the Worker in Southgate (southern Colorado Springs) this summer. I am looking forward to my new assignment.

Thanks again for all the wonderful support from you readers and followers. By the way, if you read my blog and are on Facebook, please click on the “Networked Blogs” box to the right and sign in to your Facebook. It will update you when I post and help me with my website ratings. Thanks!!

Talk to you all again soon.

A Guest Blogger from Rome!

3/19/2013

Today I am happy to present my GUEST BLOGGER who comes to us all the way from ROME. Seán is a seminarian for the Diocese of Colorado Springs and is studying at The Pontifical North American College (PNAC) in Rome. He is a first year theologian and will be ordained to the priesthood in 2016. I am very thankful that he has taken the time from his studies to send us a reflection from Rome. I hope that we will be able to hear from him again from time to time. Please keep Seán in your prayers as he pursues his vocation to the priesthood. Without further ado, I present Seán…

When I arrived in Rome this past July to continue my studies and formation for the Priesthood, I never imagined that my first year would entail so many historic events at the neighboring Vatican Hill. This past Wednesday was without question, one of those memorable days. I was blessed with the opportunity to be in St. Peter’s Square as the white smoke started to come out of the chimney over the Sistine Chapel. The crowd itself was great witness to the life of the Church. In the crowd there were many young people and many others from all over the world. Some of the other seminarians from my college encountered people ranging from Protestants to atheists. It is incredible to see how the Holy Spirit draws souls into the life of the Body of Christ. When the new pope was named, I am sure that you readers back home knew more about what was going on than we did. No one knew who it was or where he was from. The scene of St. Peter’s façade, wet from the rain, aglow with the many lights, and a man in white, our Pope, standing in the center was incredible. When he asked for a moment of silence for us to pray that God would bless him in his ministry to the Universal Church, not a sound was heard; a truly incredible feat for a crowd so large and diverse. This Lent in the Eternal City has been a unique and historic time for our Holy Mother the Church. May the Holy Spirit ever continue to guide the men that are placed as the shepherds of so many souls. May our Mother Mary be with Pope Francis as he succeeds Pope Emeritus Benedict in the Petrine Office. Viva il Papa!

In Christ,

Seán McCann

For My Military Bretheren

3/6/2013

This morning, I received an email from my American Legion Post 9-11 about a warning issued from the Department of Veteran's Affairs. Please feel free to pass this on and "share" or "link" to this post at the bottom. Here is the statements the V.A. sent out:

The Office of the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has requested dissemination of the following :

"An organization called Veterans Affairs Services (VAS) is providing benefit and general information on VA and gathering personal information on veterans. "This organization is not affiliated with VA in any way."

The organization described itself at its web page at: http://www.vaservices.org/us/index.html

"VAS may be gaining access to military personnel through their close resemblance to the VA name and seal. Our Legal Counsel has requested that we coordinate with DoD to inform military installations, particularly mobilization sites, of this group and their lack of affiliation or endorsement by VA to provide any services. In addition, GC requests that if you have any examples of VAS acts that violate chapter 59 of Title 38 United States Code, such as VAS employees assisting veterans in the preparation and presentation of claims for benefits, please pass any additional information to Mr. Daugherty.”

Michael G. Daugherty
Staff Attorney
Department of Veterans Affairs
Office of General Counsel

Something Fun! School Holds Conclave!

3/5/2013

One of my favorite blogs, Fr. Z, has a great post from a St. Louis School! The school scheduled a papal conclave to help the students understand what goes one. Remember, for many of them, this is their first experience with a new pope. There are some really GREAT pictures, sure to bring a smile to your face. Take about 30 seconds and check out this great article and pictures HERE.

UPDATE: So I thought that this was a school in St. Louis. As it turns out this wonderful school called St. Louis Catholic School is actually in Alexandria, VA. Still a good idea and great pictures.

Time for a Resolution?

12/31/2012

So this time every year many people make New Year’s resolutions. I haven’t done this in a number of years because it seems that no matter how hard I try they only last for a few months and then are forgotten. But I think this year I may try again. This is going to be a wonderful year as I look forward to ordination the diaconate in May. When I returned to Kenrick, we should be living in the new building and that will certainly be nice also.

So I think I’ll try again this year. Maybe make a resolution to once again try to post more often on my blog. This is been a work in progress for the last five years and I never seem to get the postings done on a regular basis. But maybe with a resolution I should try again. It is my hope that my website will become a permanent part of my ministry and since I look forward to ordination and beginning my ministry in less than five months now might be a good time to really put some effort into my blog as well.

A few months ago on my blog I noted that I was going to make some changes to my website including a page for videos and adding items to my ordination pages. Then along came the end of the semester, finals, papers and of course packing for the move back to Kenrick. And so nothing happened. I’ve enjoyed the last couple of weeks on my Christmas vacation kind of resting and recuperating and I hope to spend the time remaining between now and my return to Kenrick working on my webpage. I don’t know how successful I’ll be, but here I go again. Keep me in your prayers and stay tuned for more to come.

So what are your New Year’s resolutions?

Time Flies

10/13/2012

I always find it amazing how fast time really moves when you’re not paying attention. I end my summer assignment, spend a couple weeks with my mom and then go back to seminary, only to find that I get involved with my studies and 2 ½ months have gone by since I made a post. So much for consistency. I was actually trying to build up some readership on my website, but I have probably lost whatever readers I had. If you’re actually reading this, thank you for your patience and persistence.

So since I last posted, as I said, I spent a couple weeks with my mom and then returned to Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis. This is my last year before ordination and I can’t believe how fast the previous four years have gone. I get ordained to the diaconate this May and then I only have one year of seminary left. As I look forward to the next eighteen months it seems like there’s an awful lot to do in a very short amount of time.

And yes, in case you’re wondering, my ordination date has been confirmed. I will be ordained to the transitional diaconate on May 25, 2013 by his Excellency Bishop Michael Sheridan. I am very excited!

The classes I’m taking have been pretty light compared to previous years, but on the other hand, I am working on my thesis so that takes up a significant amount of my free time. This year the classes are a little bit different in that many of them address more practical aspects of the priesthood rather than theoretical. In fact in my Deacon practicum we have just completed practicing Baptism and this coming week we will start practicing the Mass. As my professor Fr. Swift said to our class, right now it’s fun but about March it’ll hit you how fast things are moving and you will take this much more seriously. Not that were not taking our class seriously now, but he says there is a much greater intensity the closer people get to ordination. He says this happens every year.

Over the next few weeks there will also be some changes to my website. I plan on developing a new page which contains videos which people can view and download. The current video regarding the fire in Colorado Springs this past summer will be moved from the front page to this video page. I will also be adding videos the people have sent me, or which I have discovered, that I think may be of interest to my readers. So look for this new and exciting page.

Two days ago we started the Year of Faith as ordained by his Excellency Pope Benedict XVI. There are many great and beautiful prayers associated with this year faith as well as several indulgences and I will try to share these over the next few weeks. Certainly if you have any questions regarding these prayers, indulgences or special activities feel free to drop me a note. I look forward to these as it gives me something to talk about other than myself and my life, wich isn’t that exciting to begin with.

Also over the next few weeks I will be adding to the ordination pages but primarily to the diaconate ordination page. Things will be added as time permits and I find what is needed for my ordination. Again if you have questions don’t hesitate to contact me either by email or directly through the website.

I guess that’s it for now and I hope that there is someone in the wide world who actually still watches my website. For you wonderful readers I promise not to let 2 ½ months go by again without adding some new content. Of course if I slip and some time does go by, feel free to call me on it. I love hearing from my readers.

May God be with each of you and may we all pray for an increase in the virtue of Faith as we enter this Year of Faith.

America is now mission territory.

8/1/2012

Below is an address given by Archbishop Chaput. It is an excellent speech and so I have reprinted it here in its entirety. It is well worth the read. Please take the time to read it as it explains the position of the Church extremely well. Here is the transcript of Archbishop Charles Chaput’s keynote address given at the Napa Institute on July 26.

by ARCHBISHOP CHARLES CHAPUT 07/31/2012

A friend of mine, a political scientist, recently posed two very good questions. They go right to the heart of our discussion today. He wondered, first, if the religious freedom debate had “crossed a Rubicon” in our country’s political life. And, second, he asked if Catholic bishops now found themselves opposed — in a new and fundamental way — to the spirit of American society.

I’ll deal with his first question in a moment. I’ll come back to his second question at the end of my remarks. But we should probably begin our time together today by recalling that even at the height of anti-Catholic bigotry, Catholics have always served our country with distinction. More than 80 Catholic chaplains died in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. All four chaplains who won the Medal of Honor in those wars were Catholic priests.

Time and again, Catholics have proven their love of our nation with their talent, hard work and blood. So, if the bishops of the United States ever find themselves opposed, in a fundamental way, to the spirit of our country, the fault won’t lie with our bishops. It will lie with political and cultural leaders who turned our country into something it was never meant to be.

So, having said that, let’s turn to my friend’s first question.

The Rubicon is a river in northern Italy. It’s small and forgettable, except for one thing. During the Roman Republic, it marked a border. To the south lay Italy, ruled directly by the Roman Senate. To the north lay Gaul, ruled by a governor. Under Roman law, no general could enter Italy with an army. Doing so carried the death penalty. In 49 B.C., when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his 13th Legion and marched on Rome, he triggered a civil war and changed the course of history. Ever since then, “crossing the Rubicon” has meant passing a point of no return.

Caesar’s march on Rome is a very long way from our nation’s current disputes over religious liberty. But “crossing the Rubicon” is still a useful image. My friend’s point is this: Have we, in fact, crossed a border in our country’s history — the line between a religion-friendly past and an emerging America much less welcoming to Christian faith and witness?

Let me describe the nation we were and the nation we’re becoming. Then you can judge for yourselves.

People often argue about whether America’s Founders were mainly Christian, mainly Deist or both of the above. It’s a reasonable debate. It won’t end anytime soon. But no one can reasonably dispute that the Founders’ moral framework was overwhelmingly shaped by Christian faith. And that makes sense because America was largely built by Christians. The world of the American Founders was heavily Christian, and they saw the value of publicly engaged religious faith because they experienced its influence themselves. They created a nation designed in advance to depend on the moral convictions of religious believers and to welcome their active role in public life.

The Founders also knew that religion is not just a matter of private conviction. It can’t be reduced to personal prayer or Sunday worship. It has social implications. The Founders welcomed those implications. Christian faith demands preaching, teaching, public witness and service to others — by each of us alone and by acting in cooperation with fellow believers. As a result, religious freedom is never just freedom from repression, but also — and more importantly — freedom for active discipleship. It includes the right of religious believers, leaders and communities to engage society and to work actively in the public square. For the first 160 years of the republic, cooperation between government and religious entities was the norm in addressing America’s social problems. And that brings us to our country’s current situation.

Americans have always been a religious people. They still are. Roughly 80% of Americans call themselves Christians. Millions of Americans take their faith seriously. Millions act on it accordingly. Religious practice remains high. That’s the good news. But there’s also bad news. In our courts, in our lawmaking, in our popular entertainment and even in the way many of us live our daily lives, America is steadily growing more secular. Mainline churches are losing ground. Many of our young people spurn Christianity. Many of our young adults lack any coherent moral formation. Even many Christians who do practice their religion follow a kind of easy, self-designed Gospel that led author Ross Douthat to call us a “nation of heretics.”[1] Taken together, these facts suggest an American future very different from anything in our nation’s past.

There’s more. Contempt for religious faith has been growing in America’s leadership classes for many decades, as scholars like Christian Smith and Christopher Lasch have shown.[2] But in recent years, government pressure on religious entities has become a pattern, and it goes well beyond the current administration’s HHS [Health and Human Services] mandate. It involves interfering with the conscience rights of medical providers, private employers and individual citizens. And it includes attacks on the policies, hiring practices and tax statuses of religious charities, hospitals and other ministries. These attacks are real. They’re happening now. And they’ll get worse as America’s religious character weakens.

This trend is more than sad. It’s dangerous. Our political system presumes a civil society that pre-exists and stands outside the full control of the state. In the American model, the state is meant to be modest in scope and constrained by checks and balances. Mediating institutions like the family, churches and fraternal organizations feed the life of the civic community. They stand between the individual and the state. And when they decline, the state fills the vacuum they leave. Protecting these mediating institutions is therefore vital to our political freedom. The state rarely fears individuals, because, alone, individuals have little power. They can be isolated or ignored. But organized communities are a different matter. They can resist. And they can’t be ignored.

This is why, for example, if you want to rewrite the American story into a different kind of social experiment, the Catholic Church is such an annoying problem. She’s a very big community. She has strong beliefs. And she has an authority structure that’s very hard to break — the kind that seems to survive every prejudice and persecution and even the worst sins of her own leaders. Critics of the Church have attacked America’s bishops so bitterly, for so long, over so many different issues — including the abuse scandal, but by no means limited to it — for very practical reasons. If a wedge can be driven between the pastors of the Church and her people, then a strong Catholic witness on controversial issues breaks down into much weaker groups of discordant voices.

The theme of our time together today is “building a culture of religious freedom.” How do we do that?

We can start by changing the way we habitually think. Democracy is not an end in itself. Majority opinion does not determine what is good and true. Like every other form of social organization and power, democracy can become a form of repression and idolatry. The problems we now face in our country didn’t happen overnight. They’ve been growing for decades, and they have moral roots. America’s bishops named the exile of God from public consciousness as “the root of the world’s travail today” nearly 65 years ago. And they accurately predicted the effects of a life without God on the individual, the family, education, economic activity and the international community.[3] Obviously, too few people listened.

We also need to change the way we act. We need to understand that we can’t “quick fix” our way out of problems we behaved ourselves into. Catholics have done very well in the United States. As I said earlier, most of us have a deep love for our country, its freedoms and its best ideals. But this is not our final home. There is no automatic harmony between Christian faith and American democracy. The eagerness of Catholics to push their way into our country’s mainstream over the past half century, to climb the ladder of social and economic success, has done very little to Christianize American culture. But it’s done a great deal to weaken the power of our Catholic witness.

In the words of scholar Robert Kraynak, democracy — for all of its strengths — also “has within it the potential for its own kind of ‘social tyranny.’” The reason is simple: Democracy advances “the forces of mass culture which lower the tone of society … by lowering the aims of life from classical beauty, heroic virtues and otherworldly transcendence to the pursuits of work, material consumption and entertainment.” This inevitably tends to “[reduce] human life to a one-dimensional materialism and [an] animal existence that undermines human dignity and eventually leads to the ‘abolition of man.’”[4]

To put it another way: The right to pursue happiness does not include a right to excuse or ignore evil in ourselves or anyone else. When we divorce our politics from a grounding in virtue and truth, we transform our country from a living moral organism into a kind of golem of legal machinery without a soul.

This is why working for good laws is so important. This is why getting involved politically is so urgent. This is why every one of our votes matters. We need to elect the best public leaders, who then create the best policies and appoint the best judges. This has a huge impact on the kind of nation we become. Democracies depend for their survival on people of conviction fighting for what they believe in the public square — legally and peacefully, but zealously and without apologies. That includes you and me.

Critics often accuse faithful Christians of pursuing a “culture war” on issues like abortion, sexuality, marriage and the family and religious liberty. And, in a sense, they’re right. We are fighting for what we believe. But, of course, so are advocates on the other side of all these issues — and neither they nor we should feel uneasy about it. Democracy thrives on the struggle of competing ideas. We steal from ourselves and from everyone else if we try to avoid that struggle. In fact, two of the worst qualities in any human being are cowardice and acedia —and by acedia I mean the kind of moral sloth that masquerades as “tolerance” and leaves a human soul so empty of courage and character that even the devil Screwtape would spit it out.[5]

In real life, democracy is built on two practical pillars: cooperation and conflict. It requires both.  Cooperation, because people have a natural hunger for solidarity that makes all community possible. And conflict, because people have competing visions of what is right and true. The more deeply they hold their convictions, the more naturally people seek to have those convictions shape society.

What that means for Catholics is this: We have a duty to treat all persons with charity and justice. We have a duty to seek common ground where possible. But that’s never an excuse for compromising with grave evil. It’s never an excuse for being naive. And it’s never an excuse for standing idly by while our liberty to preach and serve God in the public square is whittled away. We need to work vigorously in law and politics to form our culture in a Christian understanding of human dignity and the purpose of human freedom. Otherwise, we should stop trying to fool ourselves that we really believe what we claim to believe.

There’s more. To work as it was intended, America needs a special kind of citizenry: a mature, well-informed electorate of persons able to reason clearly and rule themselves prudently. If that’s true — and it is — then the greatest danger to American liberty in our day is not religious extremism. It’s something very different. It’s a culture of narcissism that cocoons us in dumbed-down, bigoted news, vulgarity, distraction and noise, while methodically excluding God from the human imagination. Kierkegaard once wrote that “the introspection of silence is the condition of all educated intercourse” and that “talkativeness is afraid of the silence which reveals its emptiness.”[6] Silence feeds the soul. Silence invites God to speak. And silence is exactly what American culture no longer allows. Securing the place of religious freedom in our society is therefore not just a matter of law and politics, but of prayer, interior renewal — and also education.

What I mean is this: We need to re-examine the spirit that has ruled the Catholic approach to American life for the past 60 years. In forming our priests, deacons, teachers and catechists — and especially the young people in our schools and religious-education programs — we need to be much more penetrating and critical in our attitudes toward the culture around us. We need to recover our distinctive Catholic identity and history. Then we need to act on them. America is becoming a very different country, and as Ross Douthat argues so well in his excellent book Bad Religion, a renewed American Christianity needs to be ecumenical, but also confessional.  Why? Because: “In an age of institutional weakness and doctrinal drift, American Christianity has much more to gain from a robust Catholicism and a robust Calvinism than it does from even the most fruitful Catholic-Calvinist theological dialogue.”[7]

America is now mission territory. Our own failures helped to make it that way. We need to admit that. Then we need to re-engage the work of discipleship to change it.

I want to close by returning to the second of my friend’s two questions. He asked if our nation’s Catholic bishops now find themselves opposed — in a new and fundamental way — to the nature of American society. I can speak only for myself. But I suspect that for many of my brother American bishops the answer to that question is a mix of both No and Yes.

The answer is No in the sense that the Catholic Church has always thrived in the United States, even in the face of violent bigotry. Catholics love and thank God for this country. They revere the American legacy of democracy, law and ordered liberty. As the bishops wrote in 1940 on the eve of World War II, “[We] renew [our] most sacred and sincere loyalty to our government and to the basic ideals of the American republic … [and we] are again resolved to give [ourselves] unstintingly to its defense and its lasting endurance and welfare.”[8] Hundreds of thousands of American Catholics did exactly that on the battlefields of Europe and the South Pacific.

But the answer is Yes in the sense that the America of Catholic memory is not the America of the present moment or the emerging future. Sooner or later, a nation based on a degraded notion of liberty, on license rather than real freedom — in other words, a nation of abortion, disordered sexuality, consumer greed and indifference to immigrants and the poor — will not be worthy of its founding ideals. And, on that day, it will have no claim on virtuous hearts.

In many ways, I believe my own generation, the “boomer generation,” has been one of the most problematic in our nation’s history because of our spirit of entitlement and moral superiority; our appetite for material comfort unmoored from humility; our refusal to acknowledge personal sin and accept our obligations to the past.

But we can change that. Nothing about life is predetermined except the victory of Jesus Christ. We create the future. We do it not just by our actions, but by what we really believe — because what we believe shapes the kind of people we are. In a way, “growing a culture of religious freedom” is the better title for this talk. A culture is more than what we make or do or build. A culture grows organically out of the spirit of a people — how we live, what we cherish, what we’re willing to die for.

If we want a culture of religious freedom, we need to begin it here, today, now. We live it by giving ourselves wholeheartedly to God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ — by loving God with passion and joy, confidence and courage. And by holding nothing back. God will take care of the rest. Scripture says, “Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain” (Psalm 127:1). In the end, God is the builder. We’re the living stones. The firmer our faith, the deeper our love, the purer our zeal for God’s will — then the stronger the house of freedom will be that rises in our own lives and in the life of our nation.

Archbishop Charles Chaput is archbishop of Philadelphia.

[1] For patterns of religious belief in various age groups, see Barna Group and Pew Research Center data. For the state of moral formation among young adults, see Christian Smith, editor, Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood, Oxford University Press, New York, 2011. For an overview of American religious trends and their meaning, see Ross Douthat, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, Free Press, New York, 2012

[2] See Christopher Lasch, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, W.W. Norton, New York, 1995; and Christian Smith, editor, The Secular Revolution: Power, Interests and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life, University of California Press, Los Angeles, 2003

[3] “Secularism,” a pastoral statement by the Administrative Board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, on behalf of the bishops of the United States, November 14, 1947; as collected in Pastoral Letters of the American Hierarchy, 1792-1970, Hugh J. Nolan, editor, Our Sunday Visitor, Huntington, IN, 1971

[4] Robert Kraynak, “Citizenship in Two Worlds: On the Tensions between Christian Faith and American Democracy,” Josephinum Journal of Theology, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2009; see also a more extensive discussion of this theme in his book, Christian Faith and Modern Democracy: God and Politics in the Fallen World, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN, 2001

[5] C.S. Lewis, see his “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” in The Screwtape Letters, HarperCollins, New York, 2001

[6] Soren Kierkegaard, The Present Age: On the Death of Rebellion, HarperPerennial, New York, 2010, p. 44-45

[7] Douthat, Bad Religion,  p. 286-287

[8] “The American Republic,” a statement by the bishops of the United States, November 13, 1940; as collected in Pastoral Letters of the American Hierarchy, 1792-1970

Stay Tuned

7/20/2012

I am still working through some issues with the new site. I am trying to get a better system for commenting on my blog and I am researching some good HTML code for a site search box. I expect that these will be coming along over the next few days, so watch for updates. Of course if anyone has some suggestions on either of these issues, please let me know. There is a “Contact Me” form under the “About Me” link. Also if you have any other suggestions about the site, feel free to let me know.

I am also looking for good topics to post about and would be grateful for suggestions. Feel free!!

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