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Blessed Kateri Shrine, Fonda, New York, Usa

Last year one of the highlights of our family driving vacation to Boston was stopping at the the Shrine to Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha Shrine in Fonda NY when we did not know it existed. You can hear more about that visit onCatholic New Media Roundup Episode 2 from last July.

This year we are spending two of our family camping weeks at Catholic Family retreats, first at Catholic Familyand in Bloomingdale, Ohio and later at Cana Colony at Madonna House in northern Ontario. We are certainly not alone in taking vacation time out to recharge our spiritual batteries and renew our faith.

There were over 140 families at Familyland the week we attended. The week at Familyland was structured with daily mass in the morning, followed by sessions for all members of the family until lunchtime. The afternoons were dedicated to sports, relaxation, watersliding, swimming and visiting with other families. At 3 pm each day, everyone in the whole complex stopped wherever they were to pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. Dinner was served between 5 and 7 and there were family activities and rosary time in the evenings. During each afternoon a number of priests were available on the lawn outside the chapel to hear confessions. The whole week was a wonderful balance of spiritual renewal and family fun.

While we were there, we met the Kearns family; Deacon Pat, Liz, Makenzie and Sean, from northern California who dedicated their month long circuit of the United States as a pilgrimage with daily mass and times for family rosaries. They documented their journey on the Kearns Family Pilgrimage USA blog.

This notion of traveling to renew one’s faith is not new. In fact it is very old. For thousands of years, Catholics have been making pilgrimages to holy places seeking healing or to grow in their faith. We are privileged to live quite near to the Shrine of the Canadian Martyrs, which is one such place of pilgrimage.

Catholic Roundup Big Question

How about you? Have you ever been on a pilgrimage? Have your family ever gone on a vacation/retreat? Do you take time during your vacation to recharge and enrich your spiritual life? Tell us about it. Send your responses to (catholicroundup@gmail.com) catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or leave a voicemail message at 206-337-0611.

Update:  Wow, I submitted this post just before the deadline at 9:56pm EST.  By 10:30 Sarah had Catholic Carnival 200 posted, and it’s a doozer.

Congratulations to everyone involved for 200 weeks of the Catholic Carnival, (the longest permanent floating crap game Catholic Blog Carnival on the Internet).

Reflecting on what to write about for this week’s carnival led me to write a mini carnival of my own.  My involvement with Catholic blogging, podcasting and social media has been a means belonging to a community of believers throughout the world.  The reason I produce the  Catholic New Media Roundup is help foster and grow this community in my own little way.

A few recent posts illustrate this point.  A couple of weeks ago,  The Catholic Journeyman talked about the reasons he blogs in:Just how Catholic are we?

How “Catholic” are we to put study, energy and time into this, ahem “hobby”? I dont see this as fanatical or extreme, and yet my first inclination is to respond citing the convenience of this technology and using it for Evangelization, but thats just a thread in the cloth here. Its a discovery process, growing a community of believers, etc.

I have become a great fan of the Amateur Catholic Bloggers, The B team of Catholic Bloggers.  Their motto is, ” We don’t write books or do speaking tours.  In fact, we barely do our jobs. We’re the B-Team of Catholic Bloggers.”  Their sense of humor and the seriousness with which they undertake the (hobby? passion? addiction?) of sharing their faith using new media greatly speaks to me.  I’ll definitely be applying to join the B-Team.

On Catholic Moments #79 Lisa Hendey interviewed Bryan Murdaugh, a talented Catholic Dad, youth minister and musician, and social media friend of mine.  During the interview, Lisa asked Bryan why he uses social media to reach out to the youth he ministers to.   He gave a long and thoughtful answer, but summed it up with, “After all, the Eucharist is the original social network”.   Amen to that.

I’m trying to grow that social network of the body of Christ in my own little way through my blogs and podcasts.  Please consider contributing to my Catholic New Media Advent Calendar project which will feature content from a different guest blogger, podcaster or musician each day in December.

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Brand New Podcast: Celebrating Saints: By Katie and her parents David and Carol. David and Carol also run the amazing blog: the Whole Kids Project

In the show Katie describes St. Theresa as one of her favorite saints. (Clip of Celbrating Saints #1)

Song:Popple: Prayer of St. Francis

Soundseeing– The Shrine of St. Theresa, The Little Flower of Jesus: Nasonville RI. (Maintained by the Finellis).

Promo: Father Jay Finelli, the iPadre.

1. Catholic Blog Carnival: Last week’s Carnival was held at Organ-ic Chemist (http://musical-chemist.blogspot.com/). The predominant theme was reflecting upon the 40th anniversary of Humane Vite, and the importance of the Theology of the Body to understanding and living out our Catholic Faith.

2. This week’s carnival will be back at Ho Kai Paulos.
3. Click here for a reminder of what the Catholic Carnival is, courtesy of the Carnival Keeper, Jay at Living Catholicism. A handy-dandy submissions form may be found by clicking here. In addition, a list of past and future Carnivals may be obtained by clicking here.
4. Facebook users: Join the Catholic Carnival group and keep up there as
   well (it provides a way for members to socialize and interact). Just
   search for “Catholic Carnival” in the groups tab on Facebook.
   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 me
   at jay@livingcatholicism.com.

Promos: Tupelo Catholic Podcast:

Thanks to Rob and Kristen from the Tupelo Catholic Podcast and Lisa Hendy from the Catholic Moments Podcast for playing our promo this week.

- Talk briefly about Catholic Mom.com and Lisa’s Booktalk ustream last week.

In the Blogs: New Blogs to me: Lionel Valdellon.: Acid42 Is The Soft Asian Enemy
edit: Oops– I think I refered to Lionel as Vandellon on the podcast and Vanellon on the blog. His name is Lionel Vandellon. Sorry for my confusement.

Acid 42– Liturgical Music Resources.

Bryan Murdaugh– vidcasting musical ideas for upcoming sunday Masses.

Chanuka Erdita, known as Bro Chan, who blogs at http://www.beaconsoflight.net/

Celebrations

Siriusly Great News: Greg and Jennifer Willits from Rosary Army, SQPN and That Catholic Show are going to have a daily 3 hour show on Sirius Satellite Radio beginning in September.

Voice feedback from Daniele Rossi:SpudCast, Stuttering is Cool Podcast, Angel Dude

Acid 42: Home In You

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. Theme Song: Lost in Christ (©) Bryan Murdaugh

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