Catholic Roundup

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1. Interview with Michael James Mette about 40 Days of Praise
2. Know, Love Serve by Michael James Mette
3. Recap of our DIY lent retreat
4. Interview with Rose Heron from God, Sex and the Meaning of Life
5. Promos:  Catholic Pilot
6. Interview with Victor Carvello from Catholicland in Bradford, Ontario
7. Song: Mr. Swiss Guard Papal Protector by Joel Stein
8. Baby Report:  Joel and Heather Stein welcomed Mary Helen Stein on Saturday, March 6
9. Sara Bauer and Chris Sansone welcomed Maddalena Marie Sansone also on March 6
10. Song:  Mary’s got my Back by Sara Bauer
11. Review of Catholic Roundup St. Patrick’s Day Caili and my idea for a Catholic Video Roundup
12. Comments from the Koala: Name the Koala Contest Deadline April 2
13. Help the Rieckens win the LiveScribe Developer Challenge.
    The challenge is to write a computer program that works on a pen (it’s really a very tiny computer). Michael Riecken wrote the software. Josef worked on the art work. Isaac, Hannah and Oliver acted in the demo videos. Erika did the voice overs. James, Madeline and Zoey all helped with watching… well, watching Zoey. So it was truly a family affair.
    If you vote for our two applications and we win, we collect $5,000 for our effort.
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In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, my daughter and I played some videos by Contemporary Catholic musicians. It seems to have stopped recording about half way through the show but it was still fun.

Enjoy

With a name like Sean McGaughey and being a musician, it is no surprise that I was asked to play a few tunes at my parish’s St. Patrick’s Day social next week.  As I was rehearsing my set of favorite traditional Irish songs, I had an idea.   (Hey where did we go? Days when the rains came.  Down in a holler…”)   For fun, why not have a Catholic Musician’s Ceili  (ceidleigh?  coeli?) using both live streaming performances and spinning videos by Catholic musicians.  The music will not exactly be limited to celtic music because on St. Patrick’s Day, everybody is Irish.

From around 3-5 pm EST on March 17, head on over to catholicroundup.com . I’ll have a link there to my live stream.  I’m planning to play my St. Patrick’s day set live, and then put on my VJ hat, showing videos from some wonderful Cathoic artists.  There may also be live ustream performances by other Catholic musicians to be announced.  Join us live on March 17 at catholicroundup.com .  If you are a Catholic musician who would like to participate in the festivities by streaming a performance, or sending along some videos, drop me a line at catholicroundup@gmail.com.

For years I have said that it’s not what I give up or take on for lent that defines my lenten journey. Rather, lent seems to happen to me.  That certainly seems to be the case for me this year.  I have been having a very busy time both personally and professionally which has druagged me so thoroughly into the desert of lent, that I haven’t had time to contemplate on what will be my lenten sacrifice this year.  However, it seems this week a 3 day retreat for my family and I will happen.  First up on Thursday night, our parish and several neighbouring parishes are combining their Lenten penitential services.   My daughter has asked me to help her memorize the act of contrition– something I’ll be happy to help her with because I have never actually memorized it myself.  On Friday evening, our parish is having Stations of the Cross followed by mass and a talk by a visiting lay evangelist.  Saturday, my wife and I are planning to attend a one day retreat on the Theology of the Body, entitled God, Sex and the Meaning of Life at a parish about an hour from here.  Combine that with our daily Morning Prayer along with the fine folks at divineoffice.org, family rosary in the evenings and a kind of fast from both food and Internet, and we have the makings of a family retreat right in the comfort of our home.

How about you?  What are ways that you can take time for a bit of a retreat this lenten season, either at home or away from home?

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Catholic Musician Gerard Faucheux passed away in a tragic car accident with his parents on February 10.    There is an online memorial page open for a couple more weeks.  Song: The Mountains by Gerard Faucheux.

Feedback from:Anne Ishikawa better known as artyi, Barb in Nebraska, Pat_N_IN Said, Ian Maxfield and Lisa Hendey

Send Me Your Promo Promo:

Special Chronicles Promo

Librivox.org Fund Drive

Celebrations:

1. Engagement: Melody Laila and Calvin Vaz from Glorify-God.com
2. Birthday for Inge Loots– A journey into the Land of the Spirit
3. Louisa the  Accidental Archaeologist has complete her masters degree in Marine Archaeology

Paul’s Men Podcast Promo

Catholic Vitamins Alphabet Promo

Baby Report:

1. Baby #3 on the Way for John and Heather Hack from Catholic Family Journal
   

Catholic in a Small Town promo : Check out the amazing lego video they made with their boys.

Catholic New Media Celebration: Hotel now confirmed and 1 speaker– Sarah Reinhard

40 Days of Praise– Michael James Mette

Music: Michael Mette: Released his new album ALWAYS WHAT I NEED at a roller rink in St. Louis on Mardi Gras Tuesday Feb 16: Rock Roll-O-Rena Roller Rink

Catholic Roundup Digest 40 Days Lenten Links

Father Roderick 40 Days of Healthy Catholic

40 Days of Praise– Michael James Mette

Apostolate for Family Consecration:  Introduction to Divine Mercy Home Retreat

For the Kids: Holy Heroes Lenten Adventure:  A 3 times weekly videocast hosted by kids for kids for the lenten journey.

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

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