039: The “Allyson Show”

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• Merry Christmas
• Cleaning the kid’s room military style
• Dinner at the Sweeney Cafe
• PS2 – mistake?
• St. Michael Statue
• Fr. Raul’s Christmas Present
• Peeper Radio Theater: The 12 Days of X-Mas
• Link to Peeper Radio Theater’s Podshow Page
• 12 days of Christmas
• http://www.crivoice.org/cy12days.html
• Advent – preparation for Christmas
• What is the Octave of Christmas? 8 days of celebration
  • First – December 25 – Nativity/Christmas
  • Second – December 26 – St. Stephen, First Martyr
  • Third – December 27 St. John, Apostle and Evangelist
  • Fourth – December 28 Holy Innocents, Martyrs
  • Fifth – December 29
  • Sixth – December 30
  • Seventh – December 31 – Holy Family
  • Eighth – January 1 – Mary, Mother of God
• Holy Family (F) checkout Verbum Domini for December 31st, 2006 – http://verbumdomini.com/
• Jan. 1 Mary Mother of God (S)
• Sunday Jan. 6 Epiphany (S)
• Difference between feasts and solemnities
• No Mail this week – Merry Christmas!
• Jimmie Bratcher: Man It’s Christmas
  Link to Jimmie Bratcher’s Podshow Page

Merry Christmas from the Catholic Family Podcast!

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Here’s a little audio Christmas card we put together for you. Thanks for your support this year, and we hope to give you even better podcasts in the years to come!

Merry Christmas!

David, Allyson, Kathryn, Austin, Hannah, and Luke

Music:

• Thomas Bailey – Bob Walters Hornpipe
• Jill Parr – Do you Hear What I Hear?
• Zephyrus – Ave Maria..virgo serena (Josquin des Prez)

038: Pinching Servers

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• Family Life:
  • Austin and the Bishop
  • Love in Action
  • McCallum, A. M. (2003). A Year With God: Celebrating the Liturgical Year. Catholic Heritage Curricula: New York.
  • Freezer bag omletes
    This works great !!! Good for when all your family is together. The best part is that no one has to wait for their special omelet !!!) Have guests write their name on a quart-size Ziploc freezer bag with permanent marker. Crack 2 eggs (large or extra-large) into the bag (not more than 2) and shake to combine them. Put out a variety of ingredients such as: cheeses, ham, cooked sausage or bacon, onion, green pepper, tomato, hash browns, salsa, etc. Each guest adds prepared ingredients of choice to their bag and shake. Make sure to get the air out of the bag and zip it up. Place the bags into rolling, boiling water for exactly 13 minutes. You can usually cook 6-8 omelets in a large pot. For more, make another pot of boiling water. Open the bags and the omelet will roll out easily. Be prepared for everyone to be amazed. Nice to serve with fresh fruit and coffee cake; everyone gets involved in the process and a great conversation piece.
• Church Chat:
  • Immaculate Conception Dec. 8th
  • Holy Family and Mary Mother of God co-celebrated December 31st
  • Server-Pinching
• Mail Bag
  • Craig comments on putting up the tree
  • Greg and Jennifer “throw down the gauntlet”
  • Christmas Card from the Secretary of Defense
• Zephyrus: Ave Maria – Virgo Serena
  Angelus from Magnatune
  http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/zephyrus-angelus/

037: Sold to the Gypsies

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• Technical Difficulties
• David back from Puerto Rico
• CFP Mission
• Family Table
  • Austin’s assignment
  • How do you get the kids to be nice to each other?
• Church Chat
  • The Color Purple
  • Advent is the first season of the Liturgical Year
  • Gaudete Sunday (pink) – “Rejoice for Christ is born of the Virgin Mary”
• Jill Parr: Do You Hear What I Hear?
  Link to Jill Parr’s Podshow Page

Best

It looks like all the bugs have been worked out of the new site.  Expect your regular weekly dose of the Catholic Family Podcast this weekend.  It’s GOOD to be back!

Better…

Well, at least the RSS feed is working properly again, but we’re still getting errors on web posts. Prayers appreciated!

Server Acting Up

Dear Subscribers:

Our internet provider has had a major outage and we have been forced to move our podcast website to a new provider.  The provider is having trouble supporting our Wordpress/Podpress setup.  You’ll notice that not all of the links (including the RSS feed) are currently working. We’re working to fix the problem. We’re sorry for the inconvenience and will keep you posted.

Pax,

The Catholic Family