Happy second Anniversary Mr.Joe Catholic Show!

Pope Benedict Appoints Two Auxiliary Bishops for the Archdiocese of Toronto

TORONTO (6 November 2009) – The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, has appointed Father Vincent Nguyen of the Archdiocese of Toronto and Father William McGrattan of the Diocese of London as Auxiliary Bishops for the Archdiocese of Toronto.

Rosary Army 2010 Giving Campaign

Support a Catholic Podcaster Month

Vote for Catholic Podcasts.

Please take some time to vote for Catholic Podcasts on Podcast Alley and submit some reviews on Itunes.  It really helps out.

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

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I would like to declare November as:  Support a Catholic Podcaster month.   For most Catholic podcasters and bloggers, creating new media is a labour of love. We gain much satifaction from the comments and feedback of our listeners, and by the support of our listeners in helping grow our audience by recommending it to others.  Voting for a podcast on podcastalley.com has proven to be a very effective means for helping a podcast reach a larger audience.  Beginning November 1, I would like to encourage as many people as possible to vote for Catholic podcasts over at podcastalley.com.  The way it works is that you can vote for as many podcasts as you would like, but you can only vote once monthly for each podcast.   It is my hope that we can have all Catholic Podcasts in the top 20 in the religion and spirituality category and maybe can get a few in the overall top 10 on podcastalley.com.   This simple effort has the potential to increase the profile of Catholic podcasts and expose them to a much larger audience.  And if you are feeling generous, you can vote for the Catholic Roundup as well.
To vote for a podcast on Podcast Alley, you need to give them an email address.  They will email you a confirmation link, which you have to click on to confirm your vote.  If you don’t get the confirmation email, check your spam folder.

To make it easier to vote for podcasts on podcast alley, you can register for a free account on podcast alley.  Once you are logged into podcast alley, you do not have to go through the email confirmation step when you vote.

For your voting convenience, here is a list of Podcast Alley Voting links for a number of Catholic Podcasts.  Clicking on these links will take you directly to the Podcast alley voting page.  If you know of a Catholic Podcast which is not on this list, send me a link to its podcast alley profile page or its podcast alley id# and I will add it to the list.
Happy voting.

1. Catholic In a Small Town
2. iPadre Catholic Podcast
3. The Catholic Family Podcast
4. Catholic Spotlight
5. Catholic Roundup
6. Catholic Moments
7. The Saintcast
8. Good Catholic Sermons- Father Charles Pope
9. Catholic Rockers
10. Technopriest
11. Lino at Large
12. Verbum Domini
13. St. Anthony’s Podcast
14. Catholic Music Express
15. The Daily Breakfast
16. Catholic Under the Hood
17. Saint of the Day
18. Catholic Underground
19. Catholic Radio Weekly
20. The Catholic Hack
21. Heart, Mind and Strength
22. The Catholic Foodie
23. Divine Office
24. Pray as you go
25. Our Catholic Life
26. Hands and Feet
27. Life On Fire
28. Catholic Insider
29. Word on Fire – Sermons of Father Robert Barron
30. On the U
31. American Catholic Radio
32. The Mr. Joe Catholic Show
33. The Catholic Creativity Podcast
34. Relevant Scout Radio
35. Catholic Family Journal

If you are a podcaster, please take some time to play the audio promo for Support a Catholic Podcaster Month on your show.

SaintStudy

Holy Cards for your Inspiration

LOLSaints

The SaintCast

Catholic Reference Extension
Support a Catholic Podcaster Month
Beginning November 1, I would like to encourage as many people as possible to vote for Catholic podcasts over at podcastalley.com.  The way it works is that you can vote for as many podcasts as you would like, but you can only vote once monthly for each podcast.   It is my hope that we can have all Catholic Podcasts in the top 20 in the religion and spirituality category and maybe can get a few in the overall top 10 on podcastalley.com.   This simple effort has the potential to increase the profile of Catholic podcasts and expose them to a much larger audience.  And if you are feeling generous, you can vote for the Catholic Roundup as well.

Voicemail from Michael Reiken.

Interview with Blaine Scott during the annual Life Chain.

Popple:  I’m a Pencil in the Hands of the Hands of a Writing God from their new CD: Hip, Hip Hooray

Catholic Roundup is now on mycatholicvoice.com,
CatholicRoundupDigest on The Catholic Music Express.

My article for Support a Catholic Speaker Month is about

Greg and Jennifer Willits.

I’m Declaring November as Support a Catholic Podcaster month on  PodcastAlley.com .  Beginning November 1, let’s try to get Catholic Podcasts to the top of Podcast Alley.

Promo for the Life Meets Faith Podcast.

The National Catholic Youth Conference is November 19-21 in Kansas City.  You can begin your virtual pilgrimage or enter the NCYC video contest at www.mycatholicvoice.com/ncyc .

My October article at Glorify-God.com: Home Away From Home

Promo for The Catholic Pilot

Catholic Promo Bank on CatholicRoundup.com

Promo for Catholic Roundup Advent Calendar:  Call for submissions for 2009 Catholic Roundup Advent Calendar.

My contribution to  modernpsalter.com:

Lord, This Is the People (Ps. 24)

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

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Pistos has developed the  Catholic Reference Extension for Wordpress.  It magically makes scripture and Catechism references pop up the actual bible or Catechism text.

This post is mostly so I can test it out.  If you type in a reference to the Catechism of the Catholic Church like:

• CCC 185 -187

or a scripture reference like:

• John 3:16

it should automagically bring up a box with the referenced text when you mouse over it.  The Scripture popup works fine for me but the Catechism reference posts the whole text of the catechism reference at the bottom of each post and plays a little bit of havoc with my blog layout.  I will monkey with it a bit more and update this post later.

Update:

I contacted Pistos through his IRC channel and he checked out the site.  He said he found a bug in the drop shadows routine and had me turn off drop shadows in the Catholic Reference Extension settings.  Works like a charm now.   He tells me that he will be fixing the bug and releasing an new version of the plugin soon.  I love the Internet and open source software.  When I had a difficulty with a free plugin the volunteer author personally helped to troubleshoot it.  Kind of like we are both part of some universal community of brothers and sisters united by our common faith…

Wait…

Exactly like that.

Check out the  Catholic Reference Extension .  It’s a great tool for Catholic Bloggers.

Thanks Pistos

I’m going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come.  … Well actually I’m not but from November 18-21 over 20,000 young Catholics from across the United States will be gathering in Kansas City for The National Catholic Youth Conference.  Catholic Roundup favorites Popple and Bryan Murdaugh both have new CDs that they will be launching at the conference.  If like me you’ve been young for too long to be considered a youth, or you cannot make it to Kansas City, the folks at NCYC and mycatholicvoice.com have created an online Virtual Pilgrimage.  They have podcasts, videos, free music, and guides to help people prepare to make the most of their experience. They also have a video contest running until November 8.  They are asking Catholics young and old to submit videos on 1 of 3 themes– Christ Reigns, Prayer forms, and Environmental Justice.  You can begin your virtual pilgrimage at www.mycatholicvoice.com/ncyc .

For most Catholic podcasters and bloggers, creating new media is a labour of love. Beginning November 1, I would like to encourage as many people as possible to vote for Catholic podcasts over at podcastalley.com.  The way it works is that you can vote monthly for each podcast you like on Podcast Alley.  It is my hope that we can have all Catholic Podcasts in the top 20 in the religion and spirituality category and maybe can get a few in the overall top 10 on podcastalley.comThis simple effort has the potential to increase the profile of Catholic podcasts and expose them to a much larger audience.

If you want to discover links to great Catholic media or want to create your own, check us out at catholicroundup.com.

Greg and Jennifer Willits

Matthew Warner of Tweetcatholic and Flocknote has declared October as  Support a Catholic Speaker Month.  He is hoping to find 101 bloggers to each write about one of  101 Catholic speakers before October 20.  Head on over to Fallibleblogma.com for more details and to see the list as it takes shape, or to sign up to write your own article about a Catholic Speaker.  I quickly jumped into the fray and signed up to do a profile on Greg and Jennifer Willits. 

In the summer of 2005, I bought an Mp3 player and started looking for music and podcasts to fill it. At that time I discovered Father Roderick and The Catholic Insider then the Rosary Army Podcast .  My first reaction to discovering Catholic podcasts online was that it was a source for catholic culture online.  I beganlistening to the weekly (then biweekly) episodes of the Rosary Army Podcast as Greg and Jennifer shared bits about their life raising a family, their day to day challenges with work, their apostolate to give away all twine knotted rosaries, and their Catholic faith.  Their banter and stories were often hilarious, and their shows often contained funny little song parodies and sketches, including the now infamous, ‘Captain Catechism’.

After a while I introduced my wife and daughter to the Rosary Army Podcast, and we would listen to Greg and Jennifer’s newest podcasts together as soon as they became available.  I began to get involved on the Rosary Army forums and learned to make and pray all twine knotted rosaries.  Then I realized that podcasting is a 2-way conversation and started to send feedback first to the Rosary Army and then to my other favorite podcasts.

Over the course of the Rosary Army podcast, Greg and Jennifer have shared the good times and bad times of their life.  They have shared their joys and sorrows: miscarriages,  their frustrations at getting educational support for their children, unsuccessfully trying to sell their home to several episodes dedicated to Greg’s parent’s 50th anniversary.  In an early Rosary Army podcast, Greg also told a hilarious story about getting lost in the Georgia backwoods on his way to a youth retreat to teach teens how to make all twine rosaries.  The Rosary Army Podcast was ultimately about a couple deeply in love with each other, deeply committed to their family and uncompromising about their faith.

Through their example, Greg and Jennifer inspired a community of online Catholics.  Several years ago Father Roderick Vonhogen invited them to join his SQPN podcast network.  After about a year with SQPN , Greg and Jennifer went full time with their ministries at SQPN and the Rosary Army.   They spent 2 years working full time with SQPN, managing the day to day affairs of both apostolates, producing That Catholic Show, and organizing the first Catholic New Media Celebration.

Last year, Greg and Jennifer were offered the opportunity to host a daily 3 hour show, The Catholics Next Door,  on The Catholic Channel on Sirus XM radio.  This offered them an incredible opportunity to reach a much larger audience as well as having more security to provide for their family.  We were greatly saddened when they discontinued the Rosary Army podcast but about 6 months into their new show, they started releasing a weekly 30 minute podcast of highlights from their radio show, so you can still find them on the internet.

Back to Greg and Jennifer’s impact on me and my family. They showed Catholics that we can reach out and find community across great distances using the new media.  They let us glimpse into their lives, into the challenges of having a family and running a world wide ministry from a small closet/office (dubbed the Cloffice) in their home.  Most of all they challenged their listeners to deepen their own faith, to grow in holiness.  I started listening to their podcast as a Catholic who was thirsting for more.  Gradually I began contributing to their community with silly voice feedbacks, song parodies, and tying and giving away rosaries. I now find myself in my own spare room, producing a website and podcast and reaching out to others who are trying to answer Pope John Paul II’s call to a New Evangelization using the tools of new media.

I think that Greg and Jennifer’s special gift, which they express both on the radio and in person, is that they present themselves as an ordinary married couple with an ordinary family and ordinary struggles of their daily lives.  They truly are The Catholics Next Door.   However, by making themselves open to the call of the Holy Spirit and by diving deep into their faith, they are showing all of us that ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things for God.   By virtue of our baptism, that is a call that we all share.

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Catholic Roundup Digest:  October 16, 2009

Congratulations to Inge Loots for producing an audio version of the liturgy of the hours in dutch for over one year.  You can find her English Podcast, a A journey into the Land of the Spirit at taquoriaan.com

Last month I came upon the Why I am Catholic blog.  I’ve quickly become a fan of Webster Bull’s masterful imagery and warm persona.  He’s a great writer.

Last week on Tweetcatholic.com I found out about a new Catholic podcast with the best name:What would Jesus Podcast? Three young adults from Texas, Abbey, Brian and Kelly talk about our Catholic faith from a young adult’s perspective.

Matthew Warner  is still looking for a few more bloggers to writer about their favorite Catholic Speaker for Support a Catholic Speaker Month.  He is hoping to find 101 bloggers to each write about one of  101 Catholic speakers before October 20.  Head on over to Fallibleblogma.com for more details and to see the list as it takes shape.

Last week we were inspired by Susan Bailey and the mission statement on the Grapevine Website to draft a mission statement for the Catholic Roundup.The process of praying about and writing a mission statement helped us greatly to define the focus of our online ministry.  Now I have a bit of a challenge for other  Catholic bloggers, podcasters and musicians:  “What is your mission statement?”

Background music for this week’s Catholic Roundup Digest is an instrumental track of T-Fig and the party from Popple’s new album, Hip Hip Hooray, due to be released on October 20.  You can find them at popple.us.

Our goal at the Catholic Roundup has always been to help Catholics using new media to spread the Good News and to help other Catholics to find great Catholic resources online. If you have questions about setting up your Catholic blog or podcast, we are happy to help out.

A 1-3 minute audio promo is a great way to spread word about your podcast, blog or web resource. Podcasters are a sociable bunch and they are usually quite happy to play promos for other podcasts. A bit of your show music with some clips or a description of your show along with the website address are a good start. You can hear a promo for our show at http://www.cc.ductapeguy.net/40days/CNMRPromo.mp3 .

I got many ideas for the focus of The Catholic Roundup from The Canadian Podcast Buffet, a podcast which serves as a community hub for the Canadian podcasting community. They have some solid promo guidelines at http://www.canadianpodcastbuffet.ca/?page_id=8

Here are their guidelines adapted for my purposes.

PODCAST PROMO

Please attach a promo of no more than 120 seconds in the following
format: MP3, 44.1KHz, 128-bit (stereo or mono)

Once ready, please email your submission to (catholicroundup@gmail.com) catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com
with the subject “PROMO: Your Show Name”.

AUDIO PROFILE

The Canadian Podcast Buffet also does something called an Audio Profile which I have adapted here.

Please attach an audio profile of no more than 120 seconds in the following format: MP3, 44.1KHz, 128-bit (stereo or mono)

When you start your audio response to these questions, please follow this format..

Hi! My name is ……. I produce a Catholic podcast called ……… in ………. (city).

These questions are GUIDELINES, you don’t have to follow
this point-by-point, just tell us about you and your show!

# How often do you publish your show?
# When did you first start podcasting?
# Which Catholic podcasts do you listen to/recommend? Why?
# What single piece of advice do you have for podcast listeners?
# Which single piece of technical advice (tech tip) do you feel is
critical for podcasters?
# How do you feel that participating in new media deepens your faith?
# Who is your favorite saint?
# What is your favorite sacramental or devotion?

Once ready, please email your submission to (catholicroundup@gmail.com) catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com
with the subject “PROFILE: Your Show Name”.

Please email me with any questions you have setting up the website, podcast feed etc… I’m happy to help others use new media to share the Good News.

This episode was recorded on two road trips, over a span of 10 days.  Enjoy.

New Podcasts

Uncommon Sense, the podcast of the  American Chesterton Society.

Catholic Pilot podcast with Captain Jeff Neilson who is a well known SQPN stalwart.

Catholic Blog Directories

St. Blogs Parish Hall A directory of Catholic Blogs

(unrelated)  Stblogs.com Catholic Blogging Community.  Provides free space for Catholic bloggers

Catholic Blog Directory

Doesn’t that beat all.   There are two different online deacons named Tom Fox

1) Deacon Tom and Dee Fox from the Catholic Vitamins in Arizona.

2) Deacon Tom and Mary-Jane Fox  in the diocese of San Antonio Texas.

I’m a columnist for the online magazine Glorify God.

Paul Camarata from the Saintcast made a whirlwind trip to Toronto.  We drove down to share conversation and donuts with him.

Congratulations to Bicycle Bob for 1 year of the Paul’s Men podcast.

On Pauls Men I heard about LiveWTL a podcast for Catholic Kids and teens hosted by Catholic Teen Avery.

Father Jim Tucker, a priest from the Archdiocese of Newark, NJ just posted episode 1 of the Catholic Creativity Podcast

Baby Report:  Kyla and Patrick, friends from Cana Colony welcomed baby Hannah Marie on September 19

Father Roderick is an uncle.  His sister gave birth to her 3rd child, a baby boy, Ezra today.

Prayers needed:  Pray for Righteous B, Bob Lesnefsky who suffered a stroke on September 16.  Find out more at prayfortheb.com

Tina, a grad student, is known on the net as snupnjake.  Her basset hound Jake needs surgery to remove a large mass from his ear.  Find out more at Jake’s Takes: Basset Thoughts. You can also find her checking out parishes at Snup’s View From the Back Pew

Social Media Reflections:

Contacting podcasters who disappear, a 4 marks friend request leading to reconnecting with a college friend, guest on a podcast, Meeting with Paul Camarata

Song by Peter and Cyndie Mason known as Song of the Lamb:  Speak Oh Lord.

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When I was first becoming active in my faith in my teens I simultaneously attended Catholic and Protestant youth groups. Although I was nourished and encouraged to grow in my faith by both, in the protestant youth groups I was given a very hostile and mistaken undertanding of our relationship to our Blessed Mother and the Saints.  Although I later immersed myself in my Catholic faith,  I harboured a lingering sense of uneasiness towards Mary and the Saints.

Recently I have begun participating in the online hijinks at LOLSaints.com .  If your are unfamiliar with LOLSaints it is a website which features pictures of the saints with funny captions in the style of LOLCats-  (If you are not familiar with LOLCats, check out icanhascheezburger.com ).  Some have criticized LOLSaints,  saying that placing captions upon sacred art is irreverent or making fun of the saints. In fact,  the spirit fostered by Jeff Geerling, founder of LOLSaints is one of having fun ‘with the saints’ rather than ‘making fun of the saints’.  Each funny LOLsaints picture is accomanied by a brief description which may include a biography of the saint, links to find out more, or a spiritual reflection.
This summer I enjoyed finding and captioning public domain pictures for LOLSaints.  (OK, I’ll fess up.  I was somewhat motivated by LOLSaint’s August contest of a draw for an Ipod touch.  I came in fifth place and won a nifty LOLsaints mouse pad).  Conflicting motivations aside, I have been gaining a deeper understanding of the saints and their relationship to us, and a renewed appreciation for sacred art, particularly in our churches.

I have long described the beautiful artwork in our Catholic Churches in this manner:
It is only in the last century that universal literacy has been possible.  For many Christians for the past two millenia, the pictures and artwork within our churches may be the only bible they encountered.  In a very real sense the sacred art within our churches tells the story of our family of faith. By extension, portraits of the Saints are our family photo album– they are the pictures of our Christian brothers and sisters who have gone before us.  They give us examples of extraordinary virtue, faith, charity and devotion to Christ.

There are many places online to find out more about the saints.   Terry Jones keeps an incredible collection of all things saintly at http://saints.sqpn.com. Paul Camarata hosts the entertaining and informative Saintcast podcast.  The Celebrating Saints podcast is produced by the Orsborn family and hosted by 9 year old Katie.

Catholic Blog Picks for Blog Day 2009

I am now a monthly columnist on Glorify-God.com based in Mumbai, India.

Baby Report:

Tanya and Chris Weitzel of the Life on Fire podcast have a baby boy, Linus.

Hooray– After a long Hiatus, The life on fire podcast is producing episodes again.

Interview with John Machado from catholictuner.com

Celebrations Bumper–

New Catholic Podcasts:  Catholic Casa Congratulations to Valerie & David Calvillo on the occasion of having their marriage blessed in the Catholic church.

Congratulations to Father Leo Patalinghug from Grace Before Meals for defeating  renowned chef Bobby Flay in a Fusion Fajita cook-off on the Food Network show, Throwdown with Bobby Flay.

I missed a 100th Catholic podcast announcement from The King’s Men

Podcast promos-   the Among Women podcast,  The Catholic Foodie, and In Between Sundays,  Catholic Book Club, Life on Fire, Catholic Vitamins, Reverent Scout Radio, How Can I Keep From Singing

and the upcoming Life Meets Faith podcast.

Vote for Catholic Podcasts. Please take some time to vote for Catholic Podcasts on Podcast Alley and submit some reviews on Itunes.  It really helps out.

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

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If you are a Catholic podcaster who has produced 100 shows, feel free to go over to  cc dot ductapeguy dot net slash 100club where you will find a lovely Catholic 100 club badge to display on your website.  I know, I know- you’re probably thinking, I produced 100 podcasts and all I got was this lousy web graphic.  That’s about the size of it.
Congratulations to all the great people who have produced so many wonderful Catholic podcasts.  And as always, If you are a Catholic blogger, or podcaster, send us a promo to play on the Catholic Roundup to catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com because we would like to help you to spread the Good News.

It is quite possible that I have missed a Catholic Podcast with more than 100 episodes in this initial listing.  Please let me know of other Catholic podcasts which belong in the 100 club.

This summer, while we were on vacation-family retreat at Catholic Familyland, I received an intriguing email asking me if I wanted to become a columnist for Glorify-God.com.   I checked out the and it turned out to be a visually and content- rich, faith filled online magazine celebrating our Catholic faith.  Another thing that  attracted me was that Melody Laila, the founder, and much of the glory-god.com team are based in Mumbai, India.  There I was attending a family retreat in another country, and I was being asked to participate in an online ministry based on the other side of the world.  I was awestruck by this simple example of ‘One, Holy Catholic and Apostolic church’.

My first monthly article, a rosary for the whole family is now online at Glorify-God.com.

If you like what you see, you can also become a fan of the Glorify God Facebook page.

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

1. LOLSaints.com Saint Pictures captioned in the style of LOLCats.  A perfect combination of faith and funny.
2. DIAKONIA – A Blog By Deacon Pat Kearns I met Deacon Pat at Catholic Familyand in Bloomingdale, Ohio this summer.  He is a wonderful person, and so is his blog.
3. Popple.us For the past several weeks, Catholic nerdfolk duo, Popple have been live blogging and videostreaming the recording sessions for their new album.  It has been a fun, and insightful window into the creative process.  http://www.ustream.tv/channel/popplecast , Twitter:  Dan @popplemusic Kyle  @popplekyle
4. What Does Mike Think? My plurk friend Mike writes about the philosophy and theology behind pro-life issues and Theology of the Body.
5. Tech Tips for Catholics Faith and Gadgets.  ’nuff said.

Those are my picks. Join the conversation and share some of your favorite Catholic blogs. You can write them on your own blog and tag it BlogDay2009 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.

LOLSaints Ipod Contest I made the top 5 finalists and came in 5th in the voting.  I did not win an Ipod, but I did win a nifty LOLSaints mouse pad.

Baby Report:

On August 18, Lucy Beatrice Shea was born. She is the Grandaughter of Catholic Author and Blogger, Mark Shea.

In other passages, Senator Teddy Kennedy passed away this week at the age of 77.  In his old age he is said to have embraced his Catholic faith. We will pray for the repose of his soul.

New E-Zine:  Pope Quotes from Saint Gabriel Communications International. A byweekly newsletter of quotes from the popes selected by EWTN personality, Raymond De Sousa. www.RaymonddeSouza.com

Interview live from the studio with Popple.

You can find popple at popple.us , http://www.ustream.tv/channel/popplecast , Twitter:  Dan @popplemusic Kyle @popplekyle

Song– My Pants, My People by Popple.

Interview with Chris Cash-  Catholic Spotlight podcast and the Catholic Company.

Discussion with Chris about Catholic Familyland and Catholic Family Fest.  Is there a way we can coordinate vacations among the online Catholic community to meet at familyland one week in the summer of 2010?

The Catholic Company launched Rosary.com on Aug 15, the Feast of the Assumption.

Events Bumper “Borrowed” from the Catholic in a Small Town podcast

Sep 5: Kolbe Eucharistic Mini-Retreats. St. Brigid’s Church, 300 Wolverleigh Blvd., Toronto. Celebrating the Year of the Priest, Fr. James Duffy, from Madonna House will give a special talk on “My Life as a Priest”. There will be Eucharistic adoration throughout the afternoon. All are welcome to attend. For more information please contact 416-425-0189 or check www.kolbeapostolate.com.

September 9, 2009: Grace Before Meals Free Outdoor Premiere Party for Throwdown with Bobby Flay, 8-10 pm, Little Italy, Baltimore, MD

Sept 11-13, 2009: Totus Tuus Conference at Catholic Familyland in Bloomingdale OH.

Sunday September 20: 25th Annual Living Rosary, Canadian Martyrs Shrine, Midland, Ontario

Upcoming Events in the Archdiocese of Toronto

Promo for How Can I Keep from Singing Podcast by Susan Bailey.  Song: Susan Bailey:   How Can I keep from Singing.

Celebrations Bumper–

Yesterday, 3 new podcasts joined the SQPN podcast network. Congratulations to Pat Gohn from the Among Women podcast, Jeff Young, The Catholic Foodie, and Pat and Nick Padley from In Between Sundays.

Song by Nick and Pat Padley:  Wonderpodcast

Catholic 100 Podcast Club at Catholic Roundup

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ductape family at Our Lady of Combermere

Our Sunday Mass experience and Social Media Ministry

Neil MacCarthy   Archdiocese of Toronto Blog:  Has a 5 part blog series commenting on the new Encyclical, Caritas in Veritate.

Feedback from Deacon Tom and Dee.

Promo for Catholic Vitamins Podcast

Interview with Michael O’Rourke from Apostolate for Family Consecration (Familyland.org)

Promo For My Audio Journal from Mary in Minnesota

Celebrations Bumper–

Catholic 100 Podcast Club at Catholic Roundup

Forgot to mention on the show:  The Fresh Air Fund which provides summer camp and vacation opportunities to disadvantaged NYC children is looking for Host Families in the Eastern Seaboard of the US and Ontario in Canada.

LOLSaints Ipod Contest entries must be in by August 15.

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On this episode of the Catholic Roundup, we continue to discuss our vacation/pilgrimage to Catholic Familyland and share a bunch of great interviews.  Enjoy.

Interview with Dave Orsborn- Celebrating Saints.

Song: Deacon Chuck Stevens: Blessing

LOLSaints picture– Saint Seraphim and the bear

Interview with Father Seraphim Beshoner- Catholic Under the Hood.

LOLSaints Contest Promo:   Go over to LOLsaints.com to see how you can submit a saint picture to win an Ipod touch or other nifty prizes.

Interview with Jeff Geerling from LOLsaints.com , OpensourceCatholic.com and lifeisaprayer.com

New Podcasts by Barb in Nebraska and Mary in Minnesota.

AudioBoo– Father Roderick has a high opinion.  Simple podcasting website from an iphone or ipod touch.

Deacon Tom Feedback about CNMC song. Deacon Moments song. Just For A Moment song by Sean McGaughey.

Catholic Roundup Big Question:   Have you ever been on a pilgrimage? 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 call 206-337-0611.

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

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