Catholic Roundup

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Check out the auction for a paint chip from the Rosary Army Cloffice.

Proceeds from the auction will go to Rosary Army.

CNMR Intro

Introduction and explanation of new intro and promo.

Race to the 100th Episode Report

And from out of nowhere, The Grapevine News Minute pulls into the lead, releasing episode 97 and 98 on the same day! Catholic Family Podcast and Catholic in a Small Town are trailing at Episode 96.

Music: Susan Bailey: Immaculate Mary-Mater Dei from the Podsafe Music Network

New Media News: End of an Era: Greg Willits ustreamed cleaning out the cloffice where the Rosary Army podcast and many SQPN shows have been produced and setting up their new home studio where they will have a 3 hour daily show on Sirius Satellite Radio. While taking things off the wall Greg peeled a paint chip. At the urging of the Ustream audience, he put the paint chip up on Ebay with the proceeds to go to Rosary Army. Bids were up to $50 before ebay cancelled the auction about 3 hours later. Fortunately Greg managed to get the auction re-instated as a charity auction for Rosary Army. Link to ebay paint chip auction.

On the Blogs

A couple weeks ago, Maureen O’ Brien at Aliens in this World.

Blog clip:

From Our Home Office in Clairvaux….

We are listening to a public domain audiobook of The Story of a Soul read by Maureen O’Brien, Maria Lectrix. Since September 2005 (which pre-dates Librivox, Maureen O’ Brien has been doing a daily podcast of readings of public domain literature.

Mention  Celebrating Saints 2: Orsborn Family Theater production of the life of St. Therese.

And Speaking of Saints– Saintcast Promo

Also speaking of Saints, I got some feedback from Terry Jones at http://saints.sqpn.com.

20 Questions with Greg Keuter from the Divine Mercy Podcast and Promo.

Podcasts: Our Catholic Life Podcast.

Father Pope

The Mazucci family (James, Jody, Catherine, Emily and Andrew produce the wonderful  Our Catholic Life Podcast. Their podcast follows one of my favorite formats for many family podcasts: The parents discuss a bit of their daily life, the children have a segment where they talk about what’s happening in their world. Then they discuss a specific Catholic Topic.

On one of their recent episodes James talked about listening to the homilies of one of his favorite Podcasting priests, Father Pope. They played one of Father Pope‘s homilies and it was amazing. I’ve added him to my podcatcher as well.

Music:
Andrew Mazucci: Salve Regina

Their newest podcast focused on the Assumption of Mary and mentioned that James’ Mazucci’s birthday is Aug 15, the Feast of the Assumption of Mary.  (Happy Birthday James). My birthday falls on the Feast of St. Margaret of Scotland. Our home parish is St. Margarets so we usually have a parish dinner or social on my birthday.

Question of the Week: What saint’s day or celebration lands on your birthday?

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

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I’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) in that they are broad and wide-ranging. She usually has several serial books going on at the same time and divides the week up according to genres.

From About Maria Lectrix

Mondays, I do whatever kind of literature comes into my head: short stories, poems, essays, history, even plays. Tuesdays are currently dedicated to fantasy. Thursdays are for mysteries, and Fridays are for science fiction.

Wednesdays are for reading the Fathers of the Church and other Early Christian literature. (As members of a diverse and advanced civilization that is often hostile to their religion, their problems are very similar to ours.) Saturdays are for the works of later Christians.

In general, the idea behind this podcast is that I catch up on my reading while sharing it with others. There are a lot of things that just work better read out loud; there are others that could go either way. Sometimes my choices may prove less than felicitous, since I’m often reading works for the first time. But I will try to keep things from getting boring.

As seen above, Maria Lectrix also has recorded a great deal of early Catholic literature (note the upper case C). Next week for Holy Week she will be reading, The Seven Words on the Cross by St. Robert Bellarmine. Thanks Maureen. This would be an excellent way for Catholics to reflect on the meanings and mysteries of Holy Week and the Death and Resurrection of Christ.

If you enjoy audiobooks, I definitely recommend that you check out Maria Lectrix.

BTW: As a long time sci-fi fan, I really enjoyed Maureen’s reading of H. Beam Piper’s Little Fuzzy.