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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008I’d been meaning to write about Maria Lectrix some time during these 40 days, and this seemed like a good time. Since September 2005 (which pre-dates Librivox, Maureen O’ Brien has been doing a daily podcast of readings of public domain literature. Her tastes are very catholic (note the lower-case c) [...]
Day 34 with guest Joe McClane
Monday, March 10th, 2008
I had a wonderful conversation with Joe McClane of The Catholic Hack Podcast and Fullness of Truth Ministries. We talked about Lent, his pilgrimage to Rome, The Mission Trail in San Antonio, St. Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal, and Saint Marie Among the Hurons here in Midland. Enjoy.
Day 33: Our Lady of the Snow
Sunday, March 9th, 2008Huge storm last night. Snowblower broken. Shoveling and praying all afternoon. Too tired to blog.
Enjoy this picture of Our Lady of the Snows Church in Owl River Alberta.
From Flickr: terrydonovan88. cc-attribution-non-commercial, share alike.
This website gives a history of Our Lady of the Snow basilica in Rome, also known as Saint Mary Major.
From Flickr: LawrenceOP cc-attribution-non-commercial, [...]
Day 32 of 40 Days of Catholic Media– Our Lady of the Highways- Vegreville, Alberta
Saturday, March 8th, 2008In July 2006, I stopped by at Our Lady of the Highway shrine in Vegreville, Alberta Canada. In today’s episode I talk about the shrine and have prepared an audio/picture slideshow so you can see and hear this special place I also include some audio feedback I sent to the Rosary Army Podcast while [...]
Day 31 of 40 Days with guest Maria Johnson
Friday, March 7th, 2008Maria Johnson has a wonderful blog called A Cup of Coffee and a Random Thought. She is also a novelist, one of the principal writers of That Catholic Show and has a regular column called Monday Musings on the Rosary Army website. During our discussion she mentioned that one of her special places [...]
Day 30: Playful Prayerful Pretty Priestly Pictures
Thursday, March 6th, 2008No fancy smancy podcast or links today, just a couple of pictures from the creative hands of my good friend from the seminary, Father Michel Nault. Our mutual friend Father Michael Wollbaum is in the center of the second picture. That picture reminds me of an old joke with the punch line… “I [...]
Day 29 of 40 Days of Catholic Media– Mary Soukup
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Mary Soukup is known as bear1 around Rosary Army, facebook, twitter and Ustream. She has a wonderful blog called, The eyes in which Mary sees the world, where she chronicles her struggle to live a normal everyday life despite the challenges and limitations of a physical disability. We talked about Lent, her blog, [...]
Day 28 of 40 Days of Catholic Media– Bryan Murdaugh and Total Strangers
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Today Bryan Murdaugh with Total Strangers are officially releasing their new CD, With Everything I Know, It’s a Long Way Home. I had the chance to interview Bryan about his Lenten Practices and the new album. I also play Rock of Safety from the new CD.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Bryan for Episode 36 [...]
Day 27: SQPN website gets major overhaul
Monday, March 3rd, 2008I have featured alot of SQPN podcasts during this 40 days project, but that is because I have sort of ‘grown up’ with the SQPN community. Two of the first podcasts I listened to regularly were the Rosary Army and the Catholic Insider . As the apostolates of Rosary Army and SQPN have [...]
Day 26: I surrender. 40 Days of Catholic Media is a Podcast
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008I surrender. 40 Days of Catholic Media is a podcast. When I started this project I deliberately didn’t call it a podcast. It was just a post a day that could contain text, pictures, audio or video– in short, a multimedia project. However people keep asking how they can subscribe to [...]
Day 25: GrapeVine Online - The Magazine About Catholic Music and Catholic Performing Artists
Saturday, March 1st, 2008Today I had a lovely chat with Susan Bailey, a Catholic musician and the brains, brawn and beauty behind GrapeVine Online, a podcast, blog and print magazine about Catholic Music and Catholic musicians. She has an interesting perspective on Lent because her husband is a Melkite Catholic and is studying to be a [...]
Day 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 [...]
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