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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Join me today for a wonderful conversation with Jim Coyle. Jim is a professor in the Communication Arts Department at the Fransicsan University of Steubenville and one of the organizers for the Franciscan University Communication Arts Conference April 4-5, 2008. We discussed his Lenten spiritual reading of Return of the Prodigal Son [...]
Day 35 of 40 Days of Catholic Media: Maria Lectrix
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 9: Carnaval is Over But There’s Still a Blog Carnival for Lent
Thursday, February 14th, 2008Although Carnaval ends on shrove Tuesday the Catholic blog Carnival continues during lent. I first discussed blog carnivals in an early post on this blog. A blog carnival is a way for people of similar interests to join in a conversation about a specific theme. As I started this blog to explore the intersection [...]
Day 7 of 40 Days of Catholic Media with Greg Willits of Rosary Army
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Download// Listen to
This weekend, Rosary Army unveiled their 2 years in the making website redesign and it’s a beauty. I spoke briefly with Greg Willits from Rosary Army about the new website and how his Lenten practices enrich his spiritual life.
Day 5 of 40 Days of Catholic Media: Catholic+Linux+Monkey
Sunday, February 10th, 2008About the same time I discovered Catholic Podcasts, I started seeking out Catholic blogs. In 2004 or 2005, while cruising through St. Blog’s Parish blog directory, I encountered Catholic+Linux+Monkey. The name was just too irresistible. As a Catholic who monkeys around with linux, I had to check it out. [...]
Day 4 of 40 Days of Catholic Media: Father Roderick came to Toronto
Saturday, February 9th, 2008Here is a brief interview I did with Father Roderick when he came to Toronto last month.
In August of 2005 I got my first mp3 player and started scouring the Internet for mp3s to put on it. I discovered the early This week in Tech programs, and found 2 neat Catholic podcasts, [...]
Day 2 of 40 Days of Catholic Media- Holy Cards For Your Inspiration
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Today’s Catholic media highlight is actually a very OLD form of media. Holy Cards For Your Inspiration
is a blog showcasing a different Holy Card every day. These cards serve as a wonderful history lesson into a very old artistic tradition, and they also serve their original purpose of inspiring people to [...]
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