http://feeds.feedburner.com/CatholicNewMediaRoundup.

Sorry for the inconvenience.  Now on to more great Advent reflections.

The Orsborn Family are: Dave, Karol, Katy, Ellie, and Abbie. Together they produce the delightful Celebrating Saints Podcast. I love how the whole Orsborn family shares their love of the saints and shows other families how they can have fun learning about their faith together. Today they share how St. Francis erected the first nativity scene. Today, December 14, is Katie’s birthday. Take some time to send her some birthday wishes at 206-202-3515 or celebratingsaints (at) gmail (dot) com .

Join us tomorrow and every day in December for more reflections produced by great Catholic New Media personalities.

1. Send me your feedback on the blog at http://cc.ductapeguy.net by email at (catholicroundup@gmail.com) catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or by calling 206-337-0611.

2. Go to the Catholic New Media Advent Calendar
3. Check out Father Michel Nault’s reflections for the Third Sunday in Advent.

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Happy Birthday Katie 

Today we bring you Catholic Roundup Episode 14, which includes soundseeing from Sainte Marie among the Hurons, a recap of our family’s advent practices, feedback about the Catholic New Media Advent Calendar and the usual promos.

Links

The Catholic Foodie

Feedback from the Santo Del Dia podcast

Blessed Advent! – The Curt Jester An animated advent wreath for your website.

Clayton’s Online Advent Calendar from The Weight of Glory blog.

Grant’s Advent Calendar

Father Michel Nault’s Reflections for the 2nd Week of Advent

CNMR Big Question: How are you and your family observing the season advent during the busy month leading up to Christmas?  Also, send us your favorite advent links.

1. Send me your feedback, podcast, blog and website promos ideas etc… on the blog at http://cc.ductapeguy.net by email at (catholicroundup@gmail.com) catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or by calling 206-337-0611.

2. Join the Catholic New Media Roundup Group on Facebook.
3. Let’s not forget about K7 Days. On the 7th, 17th and 27th of the month send some feedback to a blogger or podcaster.
   
4. Theme Song: Lost in Christ (©) Bryan Murdaugh

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Black Robes at St Marie Among the Hurons

Michel Paiement sings the Huron Carol

Chapel at St. Marie Among the Hurons

1. Announcing Catholicroundup.com

2. Rant– on people putting Christmas trees up in early November.  My personal goal to experience Advent before 12 days of Christmas.

Check out adventconspiracy.org

3. Announcing Catholic New Media Advent Calendar

4. Soundseeing from Blessed Kateri Shrine– Fonda NY

5. Brand new Catholic Podcasts:  http://web.me.com/neilcummins/Site/Audio_Podcast/Audio_Podcast.html Irish catholic sermons, talks &music

Bryan Murdaugh’s Modern Psalter Blog and Podcast

The Last episode of the Rosary Army Podcast

Celebrations

On the U is on Episode 99.

200 Episodes for Santo Del Dia podcast  Spanish podcast (Saint of the Day).  Congratulations

200th Blog Carnival:  Join in the Fun

The Carnival will be held back at Just Another Day of Catholic
pondering (http://snoringscholar.blogspot.com). To enter is easy, just
pick a post from your blog and email the information below to
(peerybingle@gmail.com) peerybingle (at) gmail (dot) com by 10:00 PM EST on Monday evening.

Blog name
Blog URL
Post name
Post URL
Post description

Please forward this to any other Catholic bloggers who might be
interested.

Also consider hosting a Carnival one week – it’s fun and rewarding
without too much work. The Carnival is better when it travels around
from one Catholic blog to another. For more information, just email
at (jay@livingcatholicism.com) jay (at) livingcatholicism (dot) com.

Song by  Bryan Murdaugh :  All in the family.

No promos this week.

CNMR Big Question: How are you and your family observing the season advent during the busy month leading up to Christmas?

1. Send me your feedback, podcast, blog and website promos ideas etc… on the blog at http://cc.ductapeguy.net by email at (catholicroundup@gmail.com) catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or by calling 206-337-0611.

2. Join the Catholic New Media Roundup Group on Facebook.
3. Let’s not forget about K7 Days. On the 7th, 17th and 27th of the month send some feedback to a blogger or podcaster.
   
4. Theme Song: Lost in Christ (©) Bryan Murdaugh

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For the past several month, Bryan Murdaugh has been presenting a monthly online virtual house concert on Ustream.tv. This month’s concert is Tomorrow, November 19, 2008 at 8pm EST. You can find it at http://www.ustream.tv/murdaugh. I will be doing an opening set for Bryan beginning at a little after 7:35pm EST at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ductapeguy-live.

Edit: You can view the concert here now. I had a couple of technical difficulties with my camera but I enjoyed being in the supporting spot for my friend Bryan, and he truly rawked the ustream

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That was fun but I had quite a fight with my cameras and audio devices to get them working, then my camera crapped out in the middle of the first song. Fortunately, I had another camera ready to roll, so I just switched over, but my backup camera is of considerably lower quality. I’ll definitely keep doing this ustream thing from time to time. I think I’ll be able to work the kinks out.

Father Roderick won awards for Healthy Catholic [url] [rss] in the Health / Fitness category, and the Daily Breakfast [url] [rss] in the Religion/Inspiration category.

George Leite and Catholic Rockers [url] [rss] won in the Podsafe Music category for the second year in a row.

Father Leo’s Grace before Meals [url] [rss] won in the Food and Drink Category.

Congratulations to all of you.

Here from the Home Office in Bolsover, Ontario are five excellent Catholic Blogs in no particular order.

1. What Does The Prayer Really Say? Father Z. Blogs and podcasts about the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) and remaining faithful to the spiritual and liturgical roots of our faith.
2. Catholic Parish Media Liaison Kerry Madden walks a similar beat to myself, showcasing quality Catholic media for her parish of St. James Church and for anyone in the world reading her blog. She is also a regular contributor to Lisa Hendey’s Catholic Moments podcast.
3. Catholic in Film School Rebecca writes about being a young lady of faith, popular culture, and being a film student.
4. Luis’ Illustrated Blog Luis Escobar is an artist with a seriously cool job– a layout artist/storyboard artist on The Simpsons TV show and The Simpsons Movie. He blogs about faith, gaming, and his WAYCOOL job. His entries often include an illustration. His sister is a well known podcaster, Elsie Escobar aka YOGEEK
5. Musings from a Catholic Bookstore This is the official blog of Aquinas and More Catholic Goods, but it’s not your typical marketing blog but a wonderful addition to the conversation of Catholic blogging.
6. Sober Catholic Paulcoholic blogs about how he uses a 12 step recovery program and his Catholic faith to recover from addiction and grow in his faith.

Those are my picks. Yes, I know there are more than 5. Join the conversation and share some of your favorite Catholic blogs. You can write them on your own blog and tag it BlogDay2008 or send me some feedback on the blog at http://cc.ductapeguy.net by email at (catholicroundup@gmail.com) catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or by calling 206-337-0611.

Congratulations to a couple of fantastic podcasters done good.

You can hear all the news from Greg and Jennifer themselves on Rosary Army Podcast 238.

Hello I’m Sean McGaughey, host of the Catholic New Media Roundup. Everyday Catholics around the world are embracing new media tools to create fantastic blogs, podcasts, videos, websites, games, books and music to spread the good news and create a Catholic culture of Life and Faith. The Catholic New Media Roundup strives to be a showcase for all kinds of Catholic Media. You can subscribe and listen to the show at cc.ductapeguy.net. If you create Catholic content, send a promo to catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or a voice message at 206-337-0611 so that I can help you spread the Good News.

To get the ball rolling, I have created a promo for the Catholic New Media Roundup, above, which you can listen to, download, or play on your own podcasts.

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The show begins with a social media introduction. I “met up” with of the Theotokos Podcast on Catholic social networking site 4marks.com. Within a few minutes we were talking on Skype and he was sitting in as Co-Host of the show.

My other podcasts: For the Sake of the Song: Conversations with Song , A Catholic Canadian My Catholic blog and the home of the Catholic New Media Roundup

Why do a Catholic New Media Roundup?

1. To Celebrate the what’s going on in the world of Catholic Social Media.
2. To Foster Community among creators of Catholic new Media. Blogs, Music, Video, Podcasts, web resources.
3. The Bloggers are unaware of what the podcasters are doing, or the small publishers etc… ie) When I hosted the Catholic Blog Carnival I also podcasted it, and that was seen as novel.
4. To celebrate significant events in the Catholic new media community (ie 100^th show, 1000^th blog post, bloggers recognized in traditional media, etc…)
5. To showcase Catholic Resources on the web, the people who create it and how to find it.
6. To encourage others to join in the new evangelization and produce their own new media.
7. To grow in our own faith by exploring these new media resources ourselves and teaching the lovely Nancy how to use them.
8. To provide a venue for promos and news from around the Catholic interwebs. I invite podcasters and bloggers to send us promos of their sites//ministries, musicians to let us know about their upcoming concerts, CD releases etc…leave feedback on the blog at cc.ductapeguy.net by email at catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or by calling 206-337-0611.

Musical Break # 1. Karl Kohlhase:The Simple Life k4communications.com

In the news:
1) The controversy over Henry Morgenthaler receiving the Order of Canada.

• Archbishop Collin’s pastoral letter-news release about the Morgenthaler order of Canada. http://www.archtoronto.org/events_news/morentaler.html
  
• So far 5 members of the order of Canada have returned the honor in protest: including Madonna House, Frank Chauvin and several priests.

2) World Youth Day in Australia. Grapevine Online has coverage of WYD provided by WYD performer Noelle Garcia.
Sonitus Sanctus: Free Catholic MP3 Links

Adam the Catholic’s Pick for World Youth Day Coverage:  H2Onews.org

3) Send us news from your parish or diocese that you would like to share.

SQPN.COM The home of many Catholic Podcasts:The Daily Breakfast, The Rosary Army, The Catholic Hack, Catholic in A Small Town, The Saintcast

Musical Break #2: Something by Bryan Murdaugh We Need The Cross from the CD: With Everything I Know, It’s A Long Way Home.

Spotlight on

Blog: Stuff Catholics Like

Directories: SQPN.com

On the Blog Carnival this week:

• What is the blog carnival, St. Blogs parish

• This weeks Carnival is hosted by Frank, in a Sense & Mirth (frankinasenseandmirth.blogspot.com/).

Podcast Promo: The Catholic Hack
Podcast Tip: Naming Podcast files
Podcast Promo: The ManlyCatholic Podcast
20 questions with Zina Gomez Liss from Catholic City with Zina and Secrets of Battlestar Galactica.
Zina’s Favorite Catholic Website: Catholicmom.com
Zina’s Favorite Catholic Blog: The Curt Jester
Zina’s Favorite Catholic Podcast: Catholic in A Small Town
Things to Celebrate:

1. Catholic New Media Celebration: We loved watching Catholic New Media Celebration – Fr. Leo Patalinghug Keynote on Vimeo. It was funny, dynamic, and inspiring.

2. Father Roderick’s 500^th Daily Breakfast.

3. Monster Cookies celebrates the arrival of their new daughter, Claire and one year of podcasting.

4. We are going to Podcamp Boston and to meet several people we’ve become acquainted with over the net.
   

Send your feedback, podcast, blog and website promos ideas etc… on the blog at http://cc.ductapeguy.net by email at catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or by calling 206-337-0611.
I’m going to tag links on the show on delicious.com using the tag catholicroundup and the date of the show ie) July15 so people can find the links we mention.
Thanks for listening to the Catholic New Media Roundup.
Theme Song: Lost in Christ (c) Bryan Murdaugh

UPDATE: May 2.  It turns out it was an overzealous indexing bot but there was no significant impact to the site.  I’ve turned all the podcast episodes back on and everything should be working properly.  Sorry for the one day break in the availability of my podcasts.

A few weeks ago I drove down to a podcaster meetup in Toronto.  During one of the lively discussions someone remarked that it was quite refreshing to be at a podcaster gathering now that most of the get rich quick, “How do I monetize podcasting?” crowd has drifted away.  Katherine Matthews of the Purl Diving podcast commented that we should not be concerned with how we monetize our podcasts but how we communitize them.   As an independent, DIY kind of guy and a proud hobbyist, this rang true for me.

As a participant in the Catholic blogging and podcasting communities I feel that we are in the early days of a new way to share and grow faith communities using modern social media tools.  Over the next while on this blog I’m going to continue to link to wonderful Catholic media and explore other ways to communitize what we are doing here.

You can hear some of the discussion from the Toronto Podcaster meetup  on the   Canadian Podcast Buffet Episode 99 and on Hot Fossils and Rebel Matters 137.

Yes folks, this is another of my posts riddled with p’s, and I’m not even mentioning Popple this time (oops– too late).

What I do have is pictures and a podcast from Easter Sunday when my daughter and I joined the Portageurs who are making a pilgrimage with the Ark of the New Covenant from Midland to Quebec City for the International Eucharistic Congress in June.

The music throughout the podcast is the Theme Song of the International Eucharistic Congress, God’s Gift.

You can follow the progress of the portageurs on their blog.

You can see media coverage of the pilgrimage in midland from AChannel Barrie, and on Salt and Light TV.

My daughter and I took lots of pictures. Here is an overview of the afternoon.

I have always been reticent about making a public witness to my faith, preferring to let my actions and my character be a witness to my faith. (I still think this is the best witness).

Over the past couple years, by participating in the online community around Rosary Army and Catholic podcasting, and with this blog and podcast, I’m becoming more comfortable sharing my faith in public.

Yesterday, we had 2 bishops preside over Easter Mass at our parish as part of the opening ceremonies for the pilgrimage of the Ark of the New covenant (see yesterday’s post for more information on that). A reporter from AChannel, the local TV station out of Barrie was there to report on the service and the pilgrimage.  After mass, she asked me to explain the significance of Easter. I gave it my best shot. You can see the video on the AChannel site.

I hope to post pictures, and maybe interviews of the event over the next few days.

From http://www.cei2008.ca/en/32

1000 km on foot to Quebec City for the International Eucharistic Congress

The 2008 International Eucharistic Congress invites all media, as well as the public, to join in launching the final pilgrimage of the Ark of the New Covenant. A dozen “portageurs” will begin the 1000 km pilgrimage on Easter Sunday, March 23, 2008 in Midland, Ontario. The pilgrimage will take them to Quebec City in preparation for the most important religious celebration during the city’s 400th anniversary, the 49^th International Eucharistic Congress.

All those interested are cordially invited to join the “portageurs” (those following the Ark) on Easter day. A Eucharistic celebration will take place at St. Margaret Church in Midland, ON, where the Ark’s pilgrimage will start towards the Canadian Martyrs’ Shrine. Once this 5.5 km distance will be covered, there will be a blessing with the relics of the Martyrs in memory of the first Jesuits.

Following is the detailed schedule of activities for Easter Sunday, March 23, 2008 in Midland, Ontario:

• 10:30 a.m. – Arrival of the portageurs and the Ark of the New Covenant at St. Margaret Church, Midland, ON.
• 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon – Easter Eucharistic celebration with Bishop Peter Hundt, Auxiliary Bishop, Archdiocese of Toronto & Bishop Pierre-André Fournier, Auxiliary Bishop, Archdiocese of Quebec at St. Margaret Church.
• 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Lunch. All are invited to join the portageurs for their meal; however, lunch is not provided.
• 1:00 p.m. – Departure on foot from St. Margaret Church.
• 3:00 p.m. – Arrival at the Martyrs’ Shrine, Blessing and Departure Ceremony.

This historic pilgrimage enhances the liturgical Easter season and the foundation of the Church in Canada. The International Eucharistic Congress website at www.cei2008.ca will allow for people to follow the pilgrimage step by step. After a 64-day journey, the Ark will arrive in Quebec City May 25, 2008 for the Feast of Corpus Christi.

Follow the portageurs online

• In Day 1 of 40 Days of Catholic Media, I featured For Me, a free downloadable CD for Lent called by Karl Kohlhase. He has released a second CD this Lent called, Bread Of Life: Eucharistic Reflections. I open the podcast with Create In Me (Psalm 51).
• Reflection on K7 Days.

I am declaring the 7th, 17th and 27th of each month as K7 days. On a K7 day take 7 minutes to leave voice feedback for some of your favorite podcasts. You can also join the K7 Days group on facebook.

• Audio Feedback from Doug Mumphrey of The ManlyCatholic Podcast

• This week’s Catholic Carnival is up at Mary’s Aggies. I’m looking forward to hosting the Easter blog carnival next week here on A Catholic Canadian.

• Reflections on 40 Days of Catholic media and ideas for continuing this concept.

• Popple God is Love (Prayer of St. Francis).

Remember, I can still be persuaded to release my interview with Kyle from Popple early. Just leave me comments on the blog, send email to ductapeguy at hotmail dot com or call my K7 voicemail number at 206-337-0611. Remember that K7 numbers are in the Seattle area code so normal long distance charges may apply.

I almost forgot to mention that both a Catholic Canadian and For the Sake of the Song are now available on Itunes.

A Catholic Canadian on the Itunes music Store

For the Sake of the Song on the Itunes music Store

I had a bit of a brainwave. Alot of podcasters use the free K7 voicemail service to receive voice comments. A drawback of the service is that like many free internet services, if you don’t use it for 30 days, you lose your K7 number. I also know that podcasters love to receive voice feedback, so I have a simple proposal:

I am declaring the 7th, 17th and 27th of each month as K7 days. On a K7 day take 7 minutes to leave voice feedback for some of your favorite podcasts.

In my feedback I may mention that it’s K7 day and ask the recipients to pass it on. It can be a kind of chain of good will, … and it will reset the counter for the recipient’s voicemail number.

If your like me, you’ve been meaning to respond to a few shows at any given time. On the K17th of March, try to reach out to other podcasters.

P.S. my K7 feedback number is 206-337-0611.

Remember that K7 numbers are in the Seattle area code so normal long distance charges may apply. I use SkypeOut, so I have almost unlimited North American calling.

Update:  I set up a K7 Day group on facebook.  Join the group and remember to add to the conversation by leaving a message for a podcaster on the K17th.

Subscribe to All the Content posted on a Catholic Canadian (Great for RSS blog readers or Google Reader)

Subscribe to only the multimedia content: (The Podcast).
I haven’t added all the multimedia content to the podcast feed yet, but I’ll do that in the next day or so.

Finally, I’d love to have a conversation about the recurring themes on the 40 Days Project.

1) Catholic Music and Catholic Musicians. Who is your favorite? What’s your favorite Catholic song? Do you have a favorite Catholic musician whose music you would like to introduce to me?

2) Sacred Spaces Why is place so important to a person’s spiritual journey? Why are some places of more spiritual significance than others? What our some of your favorite ‘sacred spaces’.

3) The intersection of Social Media Community and Christian Community: How are you using social media tools to grow your Catholic community?, What podcasts, blogs and resources help you to participate in a Christian community both online and off?

4) (Probably the most important question) How are you taking time during Lent to enrich your spiritual life?

5) What’s with all those p alliterations?

popple, Popple, POPPLE. C’mon gang. If you want me to release the full 1/2 hour interview with Kyle Heimann of Popple, you’re going to have to let me know.

Send in comments on this blog, email me at ductapeguy.hotmail.com, send me tweets or message me on facebook, or record a voicemail message on my brand new K7 number at 206-337-0611. (This is a Seattle exchange.  Normal long distance charges may apply if you are not in Seattle).

Last 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 Lent in our Catholic journey.

You can listen to that interview here.
I also play Calm Again from Popple’s CD Plaid. You can find Popple’s CDs at popple.us.

The whole 30 min interview on For the Sake of the Song is scheduled to release on April 20, BUT, if I get an overwhelming amount of requests in the comments here or on the For the Sake of the Song blog, or email to: ductapeguy AT hotmail DOT com, I might be persuaded to release it here on my 40 Days blog.