Archive for February, 2008
« Previous EntriesDay 24: Nick Alexander and Top Catholic Songs
Friday, February 29th, 2008Nick Alexander is known as the Catholic Weird Al. He writes wonderful, funny and thought provoking Catholic parodies of popular songs. He also writes Praise and Worship music. His new project is Top Catholic Songs, which hosts a site for user generated voting on Top Ten lists of Catholic Music. Check [...]
Day 23: People Who Like Popple are the Luckiest People in the World
Thursday, February 28th, 2008On Day 3 of 40 Days of Catholic media, I interviewed Kyle Heimann of Popple about the significance of Lent in a Catholic’s journey. In the intervening 3 weeks Popple have been very busy touring, and recording new music and a new video. First up, is a youtube video of Popple’s Forever Yours produced by [...]
Day 22– Jeff Cavins and Emily Cavins’ Family Night
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008Each week the wonderful Catholic author, speaker and blogger Jeff Cavins posts an outline for Family Night, a series of readings, prayers, games, discussion questions, and even snack recipes written by his wife, Emily Cavins as a way for families to pray and reflect together on the week’s Sunday readings. Although we have not [...]
Day 21- Catechesis of the Good Shepherd
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008Since she was four, our daughter has attended Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, also known as the Atrium at our home Parish of St. Margaret’s in Midland, Ontario. My daughter has enjoyed the hands-on and self directed approach to learning about our faith, and our entire family’s faith experience has been enriched by [...]
Pray-as-you-go . . . daily prayer for your MP3 player
Monday, February 25th, 2008Pray-as-you-go is a daily podcast containing scripture readings, guided reflections, and soothing music to aid one in their daily prayers. It is produced by the Jesuits of Britain and was initially launched as a limited run Lenten series a few years back (sort of like this podcast series). It has been running daily for several [...]
Day 19 of 40 Days of Catholic Media: St. Michael’s Cathedral
Sunday, February 24th, 2008While we were at Podcamp Toronto, my wife and I went to mass at St. Michaels Cathedral
which is the cathedral of our diocese and the home of the world famous St. Michael’s Boy’s Choir School. Of course we went to the one Sunday mass that doesn’t have music. It was a good one [...]
Day 18 of 40 Days of Catholic Media: Angel Dude
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008Daniele Rossi of SuperSpud.com and StutteringIsCool.com podcast has started up a little blog of Good News stories only as written by a cartoon guardian angel named Roderick. It is called Angel Dude.
I spoke with Daniele at Podcamp Toronto about Angel Dude.
Day 17 of 40 Days of Catholic Media- Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The Voice That Spoke to Elijah in the Mount [9:00m]: Play in Popup | Download (30) What Ahab Paid for His Vineyard [5:04m]: Play in Popup | Download (31) Elijah's Chariot of Fire [5:42m]: Play in Popup | Download (28)I mentioned last week that I’m a volunteer reader for Librivox.org, recording public domain audiobooks. For a while I’ve been participating in a project to record Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, a 1904 adaptation of all the stories in the Bible for [...]
Day 16: A Prime Place for a Pontifical Podcast
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Continuing with my internexploration of spiritually significant places, great Catholic podcasts, (and apparently alliteration starting with the letter P), we slide through the intertubes to Vatican City to listen to VATICAN RADIO which broadcasts news of the Catholic Church, Papal audiences, and news and social commentary from a Catholic perspective in over 32 [...]
Day 15- Podcasting Priests on Pilgrimage Preach to a Pilgrim People
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Now say that title five times quickly.
Continuing on my theme of the spiritual importance of place and sacred spaces, today I’m going to highlight just a few podcasts where priests are sharing their pilgrimages through their podcasts.
First up is Father Bill Kessler, who hosts the Technopriest and Technochurch podcasts. In November, Father Bill went [...]
Day 14- Blog Directories– Join in the Conversation
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008For several years, whenever I wanted to find new Catholic Blogs, I have turned to Saint Blog’s Parish Directory. Of course there is no Saint Blog, and it is not a real parish. It is however one of the longest running Catholic blog directories on the internet. They also maintain a [...]
Day 13 of 40 Days of Catholic Resources–The Canadian Martyrs’ Shrine
Monday, February 18th, 2008The other day, I talked with Zina Gomez Liss about the spiritual and cultural significance of places. Zina has been exploring the Catholic heritage of Boston in her videocast, Catholic City with Zina. My town of Midland also has a rich Catholic heritage. Our community is where some of the first Jesuit [...]
Day 12 of 40 Days of Catholic Media: Catholic Audiobooks at LibriVox
Sunday, February 17th, 2008For a couple of years, I have been a volunteer reader for Librivox.org. Librivox is an online project that has an amazing mission statement: “To make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet.” Over a 1500 volunteers all over the [...]
Day 11 of 40 Days of Catholic Media– Join the ipadre in his live recording of his 100th show tomorrow.
Saturday, February 16th, 2008Giggling Nuns, teeny tiny railroads, a geek priest who Ustreams his holy hours: the motto of the Ipadre podcast is All Things Catholic and Then Some, and Father Jay Finelli certainly delivers on that promise. He will be recording his 100th episode live on Ustream tomorrow, Sunday February 17 at 5:00 pm EST. [...]
Day 10 of 40 Days of Catholic Media– Catholic City with Zina
Friday, February 15th, 2008Zina Gomez-Liss has just launched, Catholic City with Zina
a wonderful video podcast which explores the Catholic culture and heritage of her hometown Boston. It is done in a lighthearted humorous fashion with loads of pretty graphics and special effects.
I spoke to Zina for quite a while about her videocast and the spiritual significance of [...]
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