Examples for Writing Catholic Articles and Blogs
It will help us to know how to write
Catholic articles and blogs when we see
actual examples of them. Given below
are examples of writing Catholic articles
and blogs through the web site's way of
proceeding in content building and
production. These examples can help
give you ideas of how you can style your
own writing of Catholic articles and
blogs.
Readings and Gospel for the Mass of the
Day or the Sunday Mass:
One way of building content for Catholic
articles and blogs is by making reflections
on the readings of the day or the gospel of
the Sunday Mass. One can copy the reading
and then make a reflection based on one's
experience or knowledge of the reading or
Gospel. Examples are listed below.
Reflection on the lives and message
of the Saint commemorated for the Day:
A second way of writing Catholic articles and
blogs is to write reflections or make a brief
biographical sketch of the Saint for the Day.
You can also give a short explanation of the
spiritual witness and message of the Saint
for his time and how it can be applied still
for our present time.
Writing on the basic topics covered
in the Catholic catechism:
There are many points covered in the basic
Catechism of the Catholic Church. It would
be really be very informative and educative
if we write articles that act as a sounding
board and a supplementary source for others
to know about the Catholic faith. One can
even write an article about the Catechism
itself: what it is, what topics are given
in the book, and what the table of contents
contain, to give others a more comprehensive
guide to learn about the Catholic faith. In
case we need to make a quote, it would be
good to mention the paragraph number in
brackets so as to help lead the reader
to confer the validity of the source.
Examples of writing basing on the Catechism
are in the two articles below.
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Confirmation
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Eucharist
It would be good to get a personal copy
and a printed one, of the Catholic catechism,
rather than relying on online resources.
With a printed book in hand, you can refer
to the Catechism readily and anywhere when
you obtain the inspiration to write about
a certain topic. This way you can also save
on costs from your use of your dial-up or
your broadband connection service. The same
holds true when reflecting on readings and
the gospel of the Mass for the Day or the
Sunday Mass. It would be good to have your
own Weekday and Sunday Missal so that you
can write your reflections without the aid
of online resources. Cutting costs and
lessening our use of dial-ups or broadband
will help our Catholic articles web site
operate well in the long-run.
Writing on the basic topics covered
in the Rite for Christian Inititation for
Adults [RCIA]:
Another way of building content for Catholic
articles and blogs is by writing supplementary
material for those who are undertaking the
RCIA. This is very important as we can help
those who are undertaking the RCIA to know
additional points about the topics that they
are taught in the RCIA program. These articles
that we will write are meant to be supplemntary
only and not the main source for those who are
undertaking the RCIA program. It must be made
clear that what information they will obtain
is only to supplement what they already primarily
know through their RCIA formators.
Prayers and Devotions:
One important way of building content for
Catholic articles and blogs is informing
about classic prayers and devotions and
by teaching how to make them. Although
we can only give them the information and
the method of making these prayers and
devotions, the right spirit required to
make them is learned by actually making
the prayer and devotion in one's Christian
life. In matters of spirituality, learning
is more on doing rather than just knowing.
Examples along this line are listed below.
Book Reviews of Catholic books:
Another good idea for writing Catholic
articles is to make a book review of
some of the Catholic books you have
recently purchased and read. A book
review is beneficial on the part of
both the reader and the web site owner.
First, the readers will benefit in terms
of having a bird's eyeview of the content
of the book and may be interested in
purchasing one. Second, if the readers
are regular visitors to one's web site,
then he may decide to purchase that book
through an affiliate program you have
in your web site.
Examples of book reviews are listed below.
Any classic or contemporary teaching
you may have read of, studied, or have some
knowledge of:
In our reading and studies, or in our
own Christian formation, we may have
attended retreats, recollections, or
seminars, that gave us some inputs connected
with a classic or contemporary theology or
spirituality. This we can also write about
and share with our readers and page viewers.
It need not be too deep or technical. We
can translate the inputs we have obtained
from the retreats, recollections and seminars
into a form that is easily digestible to
the many. If ever we have to mention a
technical theological or spiritual term,
we can always briefly make a parenthetical
remark that gives a definition or description
of what it is.
Writing multidisciplinary Catholic articles:
This method of writing Catholic articles
involves integrating what you know from
other secular fields and disciplines. In
this web site, the way of proceeding to
write multidisciplinary Catholic articles
is to integrate the subjects and fields
of study in business, internet and
leadership. We can get ideas of how to
make this integration through the examples
given below.
Although the abovementioned examples are the
ones that are to be found in this web site, there
are still other Catholic articles that are in the
web site but do not fall within the above major
categories. There is not only one way of writing
Catholic articles. Rather, there are various ways,
styles, and methods by which we can produce articles
that will benefit our fellow Catholics, other
Christian researching about the Catholic faith, and
those non-Christians who may be interested to know
something about our Catholic faith.
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