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Day 28 of 40 Days of Catholic Media– Bryan Murdaugh and Total Strangers

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
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Today 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, 2008

I 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, 2008
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I 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, 2008
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Today 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, 2008
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Nick 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, 2008
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On 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, 2008

Each 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, 2008

Since 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, 2008

Pray-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, 2008
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While 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, 2008
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Daniele 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
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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, 2008

Continuing 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, 2008

Now 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, 2008

For 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 [...]

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