Virtuous Planet

Virtuous Pla.net Ignitum Today, a new blog written by and for young adult Catholics, was officially launched yesterday. The editors have put together a talented group of bloggers, including several of my friends. They also asked me to write for them, so I'll be contributing the occasional post--probably somewhat more frequently than once per month, but I won't make any promise.

Speaking of which, my inaugural post is up--and it will likely be my longest on that site by far. It's a story, but not the usual kind of story. Most people tell stories about some adventure they or their friends have had when they've left home; or possibly a type of Odyssey in which they leave home and then have adventures trying to get back. Mine is a story about not leaving home--that is, my spiritual home--and indeed, it is the story of how I discovered a great treasure in the attic or basement of my ancestral home. Excerpt:

Every convert has a conversion story to tell: often it’s a very fascinating and even compelling story. Even the dullest convert has a tale to tell about himself which is filled with questions, discoveries, with intellectual adventures of sorts, and occasionally with “real life” adventures, a tale with its emotional highs and lows, one of drama and mystery and love. His tale is of a journey, if only an intellectual or moral journey, from his previous state of life and mind to his present Catholic one. I am not a convert, and so this cannot be such a story, yet still I think mine can be told as a long way of introducing myself. What is the conversion experience of a person who never formally converts (or reverts)? If the convert has a conversion story, then I might say that I have a non-Apostasy story, since I was born Catholic and have never left the Church.

If you like such stories, then go read the rest on the VirtuousPla.net Ignitum Today site. Otherwise, check out the contributions by the other bloggers: who are having all sorts of adventures both at home and abroad even now.