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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 won’t be able to go the the Catholic New Media Celebration in Atlanta on June 22, 2008, but that doesn’t mean I can’t help promote it. Here is a video and downloadable mp3 of the CNMC Blues.

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Over the past 3 years, the Rosary Army Podcast and the Rosary Army as a whole have become a very important part of my family’s growth together in our Catholic Faith. I’ve become known as a bit of a class clown around the Rosary Army for my silly audio comments and sometimes silly parody songs that I send in and that they actually play on the podcast. The beauty of my Zoom h4 recorder is that I can record audio feedback anywhere, so there is often background sounds in my audio feedback. For several months, Jennifer Willits has been teasing me about the background noise in my audio comments. Then on February 21, she seemed hurt that I had interviewed Greg but not her for my 40 days project. I couldn’t resist and produced a virtual audio interview for her, complete with my random responses and all sorts of household interruptions. Jennifer and Greg are great sports and they gamely tried to conduct the interview around my nonsense. Enjoy, and be sure to check out the Rosary Army and That Catholic Show.

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In July 2006, I stopped by at Our Lady of the Highway shrine in Vegreville, Alberta Canada. In today’s episode I talk about the shrine and have prepared an audio/picture slideshow so you can see and hear this special place I also include some audio feedback I sent to the Rosary Army Podcast while I was at the shrine. The background music is Hail Holy Queen by The Harms. Dan Harms is 1/2 of Popple.

If you have downloaded this audio via rss, check out the slideshow on my website.

If you would like me to release my For the Sake of the Song interview with Kyle from Popple earlier than the scheduled April 20, then send me some feedback in the comments, to ductapeguy (at) hotmail (dot) com or to my voicemail feedback number at 206-337-0611 .

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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.

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Here 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, The Catholic Insider, and The Rosary Army Podcast. It was an AHA moment for me. Up until then I was largely unaware of the nascent Catholic culture and community on the internet. I quickly became a regular listener of Father Roderick, and I can remember I was walking to work through a park when I heard Father Roderick announce that he was going to do his first Daily Breakfast Podcast. Two and a half years later, Father Roderick and Greg and Jennifer Willits head the Star Quest Production Network, SQPN.com which currently hosts over 30 Catholic podcasts and is the epicenter for a blossoming Catholic community on the internet.

My family was delighted when we heard that Father Roderick was coming to Canada on a whirlwind tour in late January. After school on January 26, we piled into the van and drove 2+ hours to Toronto to meet up with Father Roderick and about 20 other SQPN listeners.