Catholic Roundup

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On this episode of the Catholic Roundup, we continue to discuss our vacation/pilgrimage to Catholic Familyland and share a bunch of great interviews.  Enjoy.

Interview with Dave Orsborn- Celebrating Saints.

Song: Deacon Chuck Stevens: Blessing

LOLSaints picture– Saint Seraphim and the bear

Interview with Father Seraphim Beshoner- Catholic Under the Hood.

LOLSaints Contest Promo:   Go over to LOLsaints.com to see how you can submit a saint picture to win an Ipod touch or other nifty prizes.

Interview with Jeff Geerling from LOLsaints.com , OpensourceCatholic.com and lifeisaprayer.com

New Podcasts by Barb in Nebraska and Mary in Minnesota.

AudioBoo– Father Roderick has a high opinion.  Simple podcasting website from an iphone or ipod touch.

Deacon Tom Feedback about CNMC song. Deacon Moments song. Just For A Moment song by Sean McGaughey.

Catholic Roundup Big Question:   Have you ever been on a pilgrimage? Do you take time during your vacation to recharge and enrich your spiritual life? Tell us about it. Send your responses to (catholicroundup@gmail.com) catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or call 206-337-0611.

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2. Theme Song: Lost in Christ (©) Bryan Murdaugh

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Blessed Kateri Shrine, Fonda, New York, Usa

Last year one of the highlights of our family driving vacation to Boston was stopping at the the Shrine to Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha Shrine in Fonda NY when we did not know it existed. You can hear more about that visit onCatholic New Media Roundup Episode 2 from last July.

This year we are spending two of our family camping weeks at Catholic Family retreats, first at Catholic Familyand in Bloomingdale, Ohio and later at Cana Colony at Madonna House in northern Ontario. We are certainly not alone in taking vacation time out to recharge our spiritual batteries and renew our faith.

There were over 140 families at Familyland the week we attended. The week at Familyland was structured with daily mass in the morning, followed by sessions for all members of the family until lunchtime. The afternoons were dedicated to sports, relaxation, watersliding, swimming and visiting with other families. At 3 pm each day, everyone in the whole complex stopped wherever they were to pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. Dinner was served between 5 and 7 and there were family activities and rosary time in the evenings. During each afternoon a number of priests were available on the lawn outside the chapel to hear confessions. The whole week was a wonderful balance of spiritual renewal and family fun.

While we were there, we met the Kearns family; Deacon Pat, Liz, Makenzie and Sean, from northern California who dedicated their month long circuit of the United States as a pilgrimage with daily mass and times for family rosaries. They documented their journey on the Kearns Family Pilgrimage USA blog.

This notion of traveling to renew one’s faith is not new. In fact it is very old. For thousands of years, Catholics have been making pilgrimages to holy places seeking healing or to grow in their faith. We are privileged to live quite near to the Shrine of the Canadian Martyrs, which is one such place of pilgrimage.

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How about you? Have you ever been on a pilgrimage? Have your family ever gone on a vacation/retreat? Do you take time during your vacation to recharge and enrich your spiritual life? Tell us about it. Send your responses to (catholicroundup@gmail.com) catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or leave a voicemail message at 206-337-0611.

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Introduction by Katie from the Celebrating Saints Podcast

Overview of our Ductape family’s Great Lake Erie Circumnavigation

Canturbury Folk Festival, Ingersoll, Ontario

Catholic Familyland Holy Family Fest

1. Familyland.org

2. familycatechism.com

3. familyland.tv

4. Cardinal Arinze Podcast

It would be wonderful if members of the online Catholic community could arrange their summer vacations in 2010 to spend a week at a Holy Family Fest at Familyland. We will try to help coordinate this.

Interview with Michael James Mette

Song: Michael Mette : Know, Love, Serve from Luke 18- SSYM

Franciscan University is Awesome. We met Father Seraphim from the Catholic Under the Hood Podcast and the Orsborn Family from the Celebrating Saints Podcast.

Baby Report: Welcome to Ada Clare Kedinger – Born to Daniel and Anna Kedinger this week. Daniel is a host on the Catholic Underground podcast. Apologies to Mattie Claire Sweeney for getting her name wrong on the last podcast.

Interview with Sarah Reinhard from Just Another Day of Catholic Pondering

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This morning I downloaded and started reading Pope Benedict XVI’s new encyclical Caritas in Veritate.

Just to see what would happen, I pasted the introduction and first chapter into wordle.net.

Here is what came out.

Word Cloud of Caritas in Veritate

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Baby Report:  Welcome to the world to Marie Claire Sweeney born to Allyson and David Sweeney from the Catholic Family show.

New podcast,  The Catholic Laboratory Exploring the relationship between science and the Catholic church.

Song:  Let My Life Be Prayer by Ken Whiteley recorded at the Mariposa Folk Festival .

Post Catholic New Media Celebration interviews:

Deacon Tom and Dee Fox,   Katherine and Luke Sweeney from the Catholic Family show.

Jeff and Zina from the Secrets of Battlestar Galactica podcast.

Catholic Familyland and the Apostolate for Family Consecration

Celebrations:

Happy Birthday to Father Chris Decker from the Catholic Underground podcast and Joe McClane from the Catholic Hack.

Father Seraphim Beshoner has produced his 200th episode of the Catholic Under the Hood podcast.

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