My first post on 8 December 2005. Today is the 19th anniversary of this blog.
In fact, there was a web page, wdtprs.com, several years before I moved to a WordPress platform in 2005. Already in 2002 I was posting my column from The Wanderer, which looked like this.
By the time I started with WordPress the “archive” site looked like this in 2005.
Then it moved to this set up in December 2005.
There were quite a few awards back in the day.
By 2010 we looked like this…
The blog has remained with that basic theme ever since, with cosmetic changes here and there and rearranging.
Many ups and downs. Many blessings.
You, dear readers, are blessings.
Thank you.
Thanks also especially to DY who once had the company which came to the blog’s rescue in the early days. It grew so fast that it was crashing the server I had “rented” and the company kept killing my site. David stepped in and hosted wdtrs.com. If you have benefited from this site, you also have him to thank. Perhaps you will recite a decade of the Rosary for him. You can also check out his latest undertaking, which I use, Federated Computer which gets you out from under the tyranny of SaaS.
Non mihi, Domine, sed nomini Tui da gloriam.
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Fr Z your ministry with this blog has been a blessing for me and for thousands.
Its folksy, friendly and orthodox … true to the Faith handed down to us from the Apostles.
Your pictures from your travels are always appreciated. Especially your photos from Rome. It is as if we are there with you.
Thanks for your great work with this blog. And may God bless your ministry as priest in every way.
This blog changed my life and saved my soul, and that is no overstatement.
Well, that means I have been with you from the beginning. My 22-year-old youngest son was born the year I started benefiting from your wit and wisdom. Back then I read you and Diogenese, and thereby soon stamped out the foolishness of a 70s & 80s Catholic school education. My husband and I have you to thank, in many ways, for the fact that our adult kids are all joyfully practicing their Catholic Faith today. Bless you, Fr. Z!
I’m so grateful for the blog and Fr.Z. I have been reading since around 2007. A voice of clarity and reason and a guide to myself and my family in navigating the times we live. The world would be a better place if we had more like Fr. Z, a son of St.Philip, a faithful Priest of Jesus Christ. Still hoping to see his name on a consistory list one day.
I have read you daily since 2010, the year I was welcomed into the Catholic church. You have helped me learn what it is to be Catholic. (Does anyone really know when they are initiated?) Thank you for your work.
I remember starting read your writings back in the days of dial-up, I believe, on Compuserve…my memory is getting a bit foggy as the numbers increase, Father.
Your blog was a beacon of sanity when compared to Rocco’s “Whispers in the Loggia” and some of the more strident NO offerings out there. Kept me sane (strangely enough, was accessible from inside a SCIF on the non-secured network for the company I was working for at the time…)…after logging in and reading the overnight dispatches on the ‘other’ network headed to yours for a dose of hope.
That I’ve been privileged to meet you a few times along the path is only spiritual icing on the cake. Congrats on 19 (!) years in the blogosphere shaking things up, making us think, and causing confusion and aggida to the other side. Long may you prosper!
73 de wb0yle
You are a blessing to us, Fr. Z. Thank you and happy blogiversary!
I wish you a Happy Blogiversary and many happy returns! I can’t say I have followed this blog for all of that time, but I am sure it was during happier days (read: the pontificate of Benedict XVI) that I came across it and it has benefitted me greatly.