Litany of Blog Humility

Anyone who has ever gone through those little blue Pieta books has come across the Prayer for Humility:

O Jesus! meek and humble of heart,Hear me.
Fromthe desire of being esteemed,
Deliver me, Jesus.

From the desire of being loved...
From the desire of being extolled ...
From the desire of being honored ...
From the desire of being praised ...
From the desire of being preferred to others...
From the desire of being consulted ...
From the desire of being approved ...
From the fear of being humiliated ...
Fromthe fear of being despised...
From the fear of suffering rebukes ...
From the fear of being calumniated ...
From the fear of being forgotten ...
From the fear of being ridiculed ...
From the fear of being wronged ...
From the fear of being suspected ...

That others may be loved more than I,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.

That others may be esteemed more than I ...
That, in the opinion of the world,
others may increase and I may decrease ...
That others may be chosen and I set aside ...
That others may be praised and I unnoticed ...
That others may be preferred to me in everything...
That others may become holier than I,provided that I may become as holy as I should…

Well the amazing Curt Jester  (who every Catholic online should be reading) wrote his own Litany of BLOG Humility.  I read this on his website and then was sent it via email from a friend.  I think my friend realized how much I've been blog-obsessing over the summer and I needed a healthy reality check.

So here it is:

The Litany of Blog Humility

From the desire of my blog being read
Deliver me dear Jesus
From the desire of my blog being praised
Deliver me dear Jesus
From the fear of my blog being despised
Deliver me dear Jesus
From the fear of my blog being forgotten
Deliver me dear JesusFrom the fear of no page views
Deliver me dear Jesus
That other blogs may be loved more than mine
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire itThat Nihil Obstat may find all my grammatical and spelling errors
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire itThat Google may never list my blog
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire itThat comments always be negative and abusive
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire itThat my commenting system always say “commenting temporarily unavailable”
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire itThat Mark Shea may notice every blog but mine
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire itThat others may be pithier than I, provided that I may become as pithy as I should
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it