Summer is a good time for parish webmasters to take stock of
their sites. Parishes generally go into a slower pace during this season.
“Ordinary time”—that long season that starts at the
conclusion of the Easter season, at Pentecost—is a good time to get a jump on
what you’ll do with your site when things start up next fall. What is working
well? Do you have the right team working on the site? Is there good, solid
communication with the pastoral staff? Or, conversely, if the pastoral staff is
operating the Web site, is there good communication with folks outside the
parish office? The best of parish Web sites represent a kind of balancing act
between the parish office and the various parish ministries that would do well
to be represented on the parish site.
Here at
AmericanCatholic.org, we have developed three
features that offer you the chance to post some fresh content in the coming
months, without doing a lot of work at your end.
You’ll be interested in putting up a link right away to our
Father’s Day feature, including special Father’s Day e-Greetings from our
Catholic Greetings site. Coming up right before Father’s Day this
year is Friday’s feast of St. Anthony of Padua—our own patron here at St.
Anthony Messenger Press.
He’s among the most popular of Catholic saints—check out our
feature and consider linking to it!Finally, June 29 is the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, and
the launch of the Year of St. Paul in honor of the 2,000th anniversary of Paul’s
birth. This papally declared, Church-wide celebration is a great way to
reintroduce our parishioners to St. Paul, a hugely influential apostle from whom
we hear each Sunday in our readings. Who was St. Paul? Why is he important? Was
he really a sexist, or has Paul gotten a bad rap? Why is Pope Benedict XVI
declaring this to be a year of Pauline appreciation?
Your Web visitors will find articles (including a brand-new
Catholic Update that will be online later this month) and other useful
Web features at our St. Paul feature, which you can link to your own Web site
with our attractive link button.
Enjoy the summer! As Paul would encourage each of us to do,
“Rejoice in the Lord always!”
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