Wednesday of Holy Week (Spy Wednesday)
Regular readers and visitors to The World According to Oatney will take careful note of the fact that this weblog is officially undergoing some house cleaning. I've changed the format and template of the blog to better reflect the kind of traffic that this site is getting, and what I'm hearing from some of you in your private communications that you'd like to see as part of the set-up here. One of the most important changes that the new set-up allows me to make is to have a sidebar for permanent links. As readers may know, I link to a lot of places here at the World, and perhaps it is better to include some of those links in a permanent place on the site than to constantly be putting links in messages every five seconds. The first link, All Pets 24-7, is a new business venture that my wife and myself are undertaking. Nicole's knowledge of pet care and love of animals has springboarded into a site devoted to helping people take better care of their critters. The site is still under construction, and many of its services will be free to users (including free pet chatrooms), but you'll also have the opportunity to advertize your pets for sale, as well as pet products and services, with our new all pets website. If you love pets of all sorts, check out All Pets 24-7!In addition to the format changes, I'll be adding a "donate" link via papal at some point so that those of you who really enjoy this site can donate to help with its upkeep. The World According to Oatney may be my musings in print online, but I wouldn't continue to do this if I didn't know some of you were reading it. That means that this weblog is brought to you in part by all of you, my loyal readers. Keeping this weblog current and investing the necessary hours into it truly taxes my available daily time, especially considering that because of my CP, I am a naturally slower typist! While many others (including some close friends of mine who have great blogs) do not update their blogs as regularly as they might because of time constraints, my readers know that this blog is updated several times each week (daily when possible). Simply put, I believe in this weblog, and I am investing a lot of time and energy in it. Since that is the case, I have no trouble asking loyal readers to help make this little space on the internet even better. With your help in future, we may even be able to switch servers, and/or engage in many other projects to make this blog one of the premier blogs on the net in the U.S.
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Today is known in ecclesiastical parlance as "Spy Wednesday," and it is widely seen to be the day that Judas Iscariot went to the Sanhedrin to arrange the details for the betrayal of Jesus. Judas' big problem was his pride, he was looking for earthly power and glory from an earthly Messiah who would grant his followers earthly rewards. We know from Scripture that Judas felt genuine regret for betraying Our Lord. The sad part of Judas' case is that in reality, his sin was no worse than Peter, who denied the Lord three times, or the other Apostles, who all ran away. Jesus happily forgave all of those people, who had confidence in God's mercy, love, and grace to forgive them. Because Judas had no confidence in God's grace, he took his own life, and thus denied himself the opportunity to witness the Resurrection or to be forgiven. Let us make certain that we do not make the same mistake Judas did, and that no matter how grievous our sin, we have confidence in God's mercy to forgive us.
posted by Deacon David Oatney @ 9:40 AM
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