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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 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 17 of 40 Days of Catholic Media- Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The Voice That Spoke to Elijah in the Mount [9:00m]: Play in Popup | Download (30) What Ahab Paid for His Vineyard [5:04m]: Play in Popup | Download (31) Elijah's Chariot of Fire [5:42m]: Play in Popup | Download (28)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 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 13 of 40 Days of Catholic Resources–The Canadian Martyrs’ Shrine
Monday, February 18th, 2008The other day, I talked with Zina Gomez Liss about the spiritual and cultural significance of places. Zina has been exploring the Catholic heritage of Boston in her videocast, Catholic City with Zina. My town of Midland also has a rich Catholic heritage. Our community is where some of the first Jesuit [...]
Day 10 of 40 Days of Catholic Media– Catholic City with Zina
Friday, February 15th, 2008Zina Gomez-Liss has just launched, Catholic City with Zina
a wonderful video podcast which explores the Catholic culture and heritage of her hometown Boston. It is done in a lighthearted humorous fashion with loads of pretty graphics and special effects.
I spoke to Zina for quite a while about her videocast and the spiritual significance of [...]
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 8 of 40 Days of Catholic Media– Madonna House
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008As a young man, I spent almost a year at Madonna House, discerning my vocation, chopping wood and veggies, and learning to live their life of simplicity, prayer, work and charity. Madonna House is a community of laymen, lay women and priests in the woods of Northeastern Ontario in Combermere. Their foundress, Catherine Doherty was [...]
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 6 of 40 Days of Catholic Media: Tupelo Catholic Podcast
Monday, February 11th, 2008I called Rob Williams of the Tupelo Catholic Podcast while he was attending Podcamp Nashville. I was hoping for a brief interview about the importance of Lent and a podcamp recap. However cellphone reception was very bad, so I got a 1 min interview. Be sure to check out Rob’s Tupelo Catholic [...]
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 3- C’mon Popple, it’s Lent
Friday, February 8th, 2008Last night, I had the pleasure of interviewing Kyle Heimann of Popple for my songwriting podcast, For the Sake of the Song. Popple are getting quite well known around the Catholic podosphere for their quirky, funny nerdy songs about life and faith. Kyle and I also talked about the importance of the season of [...]
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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