"It's a Great Time for Web Site Start-Ups"

Good Timing in Starting a Web Site

According to Time Magazine (April 27, 2009, vol. 173, no. 16)
writer, Josh Quittner says, "it's a great time for web start-ups".
He gives five ideas on how we can begin our web site start-up: 1.
find a partner to found the start-up (or, venture on your own
amidst a very supportive home environment); 2. find a problem to
work on - to fill a need for people at this crucial time; 3.
launch something quickly (and joining a social network, so that
your friends can tell their other friends); 4. keep your site
updated in response to users needs and reactions; 5. keep to a
low-cost budget - make your web site start-up need less money.
I edited some of Quittner's five ideas to accommodate the ideas
for building a Catholic web site start-up.
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Web Hosting Services: Brief Reviews

This web site administrator had the opportunity to know about
four web hosting services in the course of five years. But at
this time, when the global economy is really being tried and
tested, this webauthor suggests the web hosting service of
Philhosting.Net - especially its web hosting package, Personal
Light (100 MB of file storage space) - and hosted on a Linux-
based server.
learn more about web hosting services

More Ways to Grow Your Catholic Social Networks

In building and developing a Catholic site, aside from using
traditional search engine optimization techniques, to obtain much
needed visitor traffic, we can get additional support from social
networking - where friends can also tell their other friends about
our web site start-up. This article suggests more ways by which
we can grow our social networks so that we can promote our web
start-up. The growth of our Catholic social network will depend
on the amount of work and information we give to it.
learn more about Catholic social networks

Lead, Kindly Light, by J. H. Newman

This is the prayer-poem for Friday, Night Prayer, in the breviary.
It is a very somber poem, by poet and writer, John Henry Newman.
Reflecting on the poem, we can see through the poet's vision, how
night is an allusion to our death, and morning can be an allusion
to eternal life with God. The poem is deeply affecting, very
poignant, especially as it repeats often the phrase, "lead Thou
me on" - an address made to God as the Light and guide for us
during our "night".
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Sunday Mass Reading References: 5th Sunday of Easter
(B)

"For apart from Me, you can do nothing". This is part of a verse
in the gospel for the 5th Sunday of Easter. The references to the
other liturgical readings for the Mass are also given in this blog
post. The blog post reflects on the meaning of Jesus as the Vine,
and how we are the branches - who bear fruit only because we are
connected to Jesus. Our ability to bear fruit - the achievement
of success in our Christian life - depends very much in our
personal relationship with Christ.
learn more about the Sunday gospel

Catholic Podcast for the Day

Podcasts are also a great way of learning something new. If you
have a great interest for Catholic podcasts, then this page will
feature a Catholic podcast on anything about the Catholic faith:
news, spirituality, theology, bible reflections, homilies and
many more.
learn more about Catholic podcasts

Jesus, Our Lord and Good Shepherd

George W. MacRae, in his book, "Invitation to John", makes a
commentary on John 10:1-21. He develops very well the imagery of
shepherd-sheep, by citing sources of its use in both the Old
Testament, and the New Testament. In the 10th chapter of John,
verses 1-21, MacRae makes a distinction on Jesus as the "Gate"
and as the "Good Shepherd". In the first image of Jesus as the
"Gate", MacRae presents Jesus to us, as our access to eternal
life. In the second image of Jesus, the focus is on the very
person of Christ Himself - who is the model par excellence of a
true Shepherd.
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"I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish".


This blog post reflects on John 10:22-30. As we read this gospel
passage, we will learn that it is important to listen very well
to the Good Shepherd's voice. If we listen well, we will have
eternal life with Him, and we will not perish. The moment we
start listening to other voices apart from the voice of the Good
Shepherd, we may be misled, be filled with pride, and end up in
ruin and destruction. So the one thing neccessary and essential
to our living the Christian life, is to listen very well. For it
is in our desire to listen very well to God's voice, through His
Word and Sacrament, which will help us to obey His will.
learn more about the Shepherd's voice