I’ve been included in the blogroll over at Dappled Things and Bernhard Brandt’s A (little) Light from the East.

I’ve also been included in a blogs4God recap of Christian bloggers who have commented on the Book of Daniel noted at NBC dumps the Book of Daniel ‘de-spite’ Christian bloggers

In honor of my inclusion in Mr. Brandt’s blogroll I include below his poem Versus Populum (I am a firm believer in proper liturgical posture, i.e., posture that reflects our adoration of God).

Versus Populum

They have lied in the chapel and schoolhall.
They have practiced a terrible fraud.
For the priests have not turned to the people:
They instead turned their backs on their God.

We were told that the past was mistaken;
That to hold with Tradition was odd;
That the East was the source of all shadow,
And the West held the Son and our God.

But the Dayspring on High was not mocked by this;
He allowed them to flirt with this baud,
And revealed that the things done in secret
Were true sins against Man and his God.

And so those in the Nave and the Choirloft
Still await the day when we may laud
The return of the prodigal Fathers,
Who will turn with us back to our God.

–Bernard Brandt

Now that I am listed on these blogs, I will work even harder at writing something truly good. Then perhaps I will be considered for the coveted Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

Let it be so! and they all answered, Amen!