A New Year’s resolution for a new liturgical year

Happy new liturgical year!

A few months ago I rebooted this blog on the feast of St Augustine by sending out a quotation from Augustine’s Confessions. A few more posts followed on a weekly basis. I tried to keep things “relevant.” Whatever that means!

It was a writer’s trap.

I’m a slow-cooker writer who also happens to be in full-time ministry. The attempt to coordinate posts with an anniversary or event, meant that by time I’d wrangled my brain splat paragraphs into coherent prose, the relevant moment is typically long gone.

Here’s my New Liturgical Year’s resolution: Forget relevance! Just write.

Feel free to scratch your head and wonder “What brought that on?”. Or feel free to comment.

It was love that moved me to speak

The driving force behind God’s giving human beings his ineffable gift of the Holy Scripture was love: Deus qui amas animas (cf. Wis 11:26). This same love must be the driving force behind the apostle’s writing: “It was love that moved me to speak.” Love of God makes God become the hub of one’s being…

Awash with this love, endowed with the right intention, strengthened by prayer, and steeped in Scripture, the apostle will be able to take up the editorial task confident that his or her writings, like the holy book, will succeed in being light, guide, and support for people; or, in other words, be for them, way, truth, and life.

Bl James Alberione, The Publishing Apostolate, 166-167