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A Blogger’s Prayer

Last year when I was busy tweaking my blog in time for its launching, I googled the cyberspace to see if there are any existing prayers for bloggers. Until I stumbled on Fr. Cuying’s blog and read his magnificent Prayer. This was also the time that I witnessed here in the blogosphere how a young priest, whose blog is not monetized and who just accomplished what he was requested to do, was ganged up by the high and mighty hyenas of Manila just because he said this very same prayer in the Philippine Blog Awards of 2007 (It’s another story i tell you). Fr. Cuying did not retaliate but instead quietly carried the cross on his shoulders. I saw in Him, through his docility and meekness, the authenticity of the Prayer he wrote that’s why from then on I became his constant lurker and reader, adding morsels of meaning to my journey by just reading from his blog. And time fly so fast that at this very same month last year, I was still a newbie in the commercial blogosphere reading the entry of Fr. Cuying, and for the very first time, meeting the most hideous creatures of the Manila High and Mighty blogger monsters. If you want to be protected from the evil hyenas of the blogosphere, then say the prayer with me. Fr. Cuying wrote it in English, Tagalog and Spanish. Sayang walang latin kasi mas epektib daw ito sabi ng matatanda laban sa mga impaktong bloggers sa twitterlandia haha. So here is the English version of Fr. Cuying’s A Blogger’s Prayer (Of course with his special permission to repost this).

So compassionate, so faithful, so loving You are Our Father.

We ask You to increase our faith and our love for You that we may use blogging as an instrument to fulfill Your purposes. May we become bloggers of truth and promoters of peace.

Help us to be steadfast in our Christian commitment that visitors may find in our blogs a source of encouragement and inspiration. Give us strength to proclaim Your word, that we may play our part in breaking down the walls of hostility in the world and use our blogs to strengthen the bonds of friendship, solidarity and love.

Make our hearts meek and humble that we may treat our readers as friends, not as unique hits, that we may strive to change ourselves for the better more often than we pimp our site templates, that we may find more time to ease the pain of someone in our own home than to reply to comments left by strangers, that we may interact with our next door neighbors as often as we chat with our blogrolled friends, that we may be more concerned about helping the less privileged than about the number of subscribers to our RSS feeds.

Deliver us, Father, from spams and viruses, from pride and selfishness, and from the temptation to replicate images without permission and copy ideas without crediting the original authors.

May we always be united as a network of bloggers and friends working together in Your name. May our blogs lead us closer to You.

We ask all these through Christ, Our Lord. Amen.







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