People, my email situation is getting ridiculous again. On a typical day, I get about 75 emails related either to work or this blog, not counting those that are getting spit over to spam and that I miss. Most of the blog-related pieces are links, which I GREATLY appreciate. Second in number would be queries of one sort or another – questions about books to fit a certain need, people wondering about parishes in a certain area, questions about liturgical practice. Some of those are obvious contenders for reader blegs, others aren’t. And honestly, I just don’t have to the time any more to get to all of those great queries, or even to take the time to copy, paste and post as a reader bleg.

So what I’m going to do is to start a new kind of thread. I guess I’ll call it "Open Query". On this thread, you can post any question about any topic – book suggestions, good parishes in Duluth, etc. And pray that someone will see the question and answer it. I’ll keep them open for a week, close it, open a new one, and then post a link to the threads on the sidebar, so it will be sort of like a library. Or a Craig’s List of Catholic Blogdom.

At some point, I"m going to go through the archives and gather up all of the "What Did You Hear" threads and post them as a typelist, as well. Maybe someday, some in charge of Catholic Liturgy for the Whole World will discover them and read them and we hope not have a stroke. So let’s give this a try….