The prayer commonly known as the “Prayer of St. Blog” does not come to us from any of the saint’s known, authenticated writings, but rather from an unattributed cache of rare illuminated-HTML manuscripts, stumbled across by workmen at the famed Monasterium inter Retia as they installed the first abbey-wide LAN.

Whatever its true provenance, I wholeheartedly endorse the sentiments the prayer expresses; and as a longtime feminaferrophile, it seems only natural to me to observe the occasion of my blog’s relaunch by quoting just such a prayer. And so:

The “Prayer of St. Blog”

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Web.
Where there is flaming, let me bring peace;
where there is flackery, candor;
where there is arrogance, fitting mockery;
where there is ponderousness, wit;
where there is doubt, links;
and where there is error, Fisking.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to receive traffic, as to refer it;
to be appreciated, as to appreciate;
to lecture and be read, as to read and learn.
For it is in sharing information that we increase it,
and in visiting others’ blogs that we become worth visiting ourselves.

Amen.