Please join me in thanking our Catholic Moments contributors by visiting their sites:  Deacon Tom Fox, Lisa Mladnich, Avery, Sarah Reinhard.

This episode of Catholic Moments is sponsored by CatholicMatch.com, the Leading Catholic Singles Community.  Share your feedback at 206-339-9272, comment here on the blog or emaillisa@catholicmom.com.

Links for this Episode:

• Christ Music Kids
• Retrouvaille
• USCCB Top Movies of 2009
• Catholic Moments Podcast Facebook Page
• Catholic Moments at SQPN
• Current CatholicMom.com Contests
• CatholicMom.com Book Club
• The Catholic Company
• The Handbook for Catholic Moms:  The Catholic Company, Amazon, Aquinas and Moreor Barnes & Noble
• Lisa’s Facebook Profile, Twitter

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• Sarah Reinhard – SnoringScholar.com, FaithandFamilyLive.com
• Jeff Young – CatholicFoodie.com
• RosaryArmy.com
• Rosary for the Bishop
• The Rosary Workout
• “Rosary Miracle Prayer” iPhone/iPod application from Pauline Books and Media
• The Eucharist and the Rosary: Mystery, Meditation, Power, Prayer

I’m so happy to be returning once again to the Boston area for a special visit!  I hope you’ll join me for the following events:

Sunday, October 17 – “Meet and Greet” with Lisa Hendey and Pat Gohn at John Harvard’s in Cambridge – 2:30 – 4:30 pm.  Join us for a “no host” gathering with Boston area friends.  Come for as long as your schedule permits. I will be attending 5:00 pm Mass that night at St. Paul Parish in Cambridge.

Monday, October 18 – St. Paul Parish, Wellesley – Join Lisa Hendey and musical guest Susan Bailey for a special evening sponsored by the St. Paul’s WINGS group.  The event begins at 7:00 pm and the charge is $10 per person.

Event Details:

502 Washington Street
Wellesley, MA 02482

Sponsored by WINGS, Women In God’s Spirit

For more information please contact: Kay Kociuba at 781-237-1243 or kayeli43@yahoo.com or Eva Russell at 508-620-7632 or eva.russell@verizon.net.

Thursday, September 30, 2010
9:00 – 10:30 a.m. and 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.

Holy Family Church, St. Joseph Center
1524 Fremont Avenue
South Pasadena

No Fee—suggested donation of $5.00

I hope friends and readers living in Southern California will be able to come out and join us for either the morning or evening session.  In the mean time, please say a prayer for all of the women of Holy Family and those who will attend this event, for a great, fruitful experience.

I’m so excited to share the good news that tomorrow, 9/9 at 3 pm CT I will be appearing on the brand new “Digital Ministry Podcast” being hosted by Sr. Julie and Sr. Maxine from the great “A Nun’s Life” ministry.  Please see the note below from Sr. Julie with all of the details – the show is recorded live and you’re welcome to call in with your questions and comments!

Digital Ministry Podcast – September 9, 2010
at 3:00 p.m. Central Time

Hi! This is Sister Julie and Sister Maxine from A Nun’s Life Ministry. Join us for the launch of The Digital Ministry Podcast on September 9, 2010, at 3 p.m. Central Time (UTC-5). The web event is free and open to the public. All you need is to be hooked up to the Internet. The event is broadcast live on our website at http://aNunsLife.org/LIVE. You can listen in and, if you wish, you can interact with us, our guest, and other listeners via the chat room on that web page.

Featured Guest: Lisa M. Hendey is the founder and editor of CatholicMom.com, a web site focusing on the Catholic faith, Catholic parenting and family life, and Catholic cultural topics. Lisa launched the website in 1999, and it has built it into a dynamic website with many offerings including Lisa’s blog, articles by a variety of columnists, podcasts, videos, and many resources on Catholic life, family, faith formation, and more. Additionally, the website is home to a Catholic Book Club and Catholic Music Spotlights.

Topics: Here’s a flavor of some of the topics we’ll discuss with Lisa Hendey.

• How is digital ministry similar to and different from how we ordinarily think of “ministry”?
• What are the major pieces of the digital ministry mix at CatholicMom.com?
• “If you build it, will they come”? One thing is actually knowing what to get started (e.g. do a blog, get a Facebook account), another thing is actually getting people to come. What do you suggest?
• Strategically where should people start with getting into social media? — just do it? create a plan and gather a committee? hope and pray a lot?

Your Questions: What questions do you have for Lisa Hendey or for us? You can send them to us ahead of time by replying to this email or you can write them in the chat room during the live broadcast.

Digital Ministry Podcast is a new podcast on using Internet technologies and social media for ministry. The podcast is a mix of things covering techniques, technology, and theology in order to enhance one’s capacity to do ministry, to witness to the Gospel in every day life on the Internet. We  share our experience with blogs, podcasts, Facebook, Twitter, equipment, software, consultants and collaborators, books and resources, and interacting with people online. We also interview folks across the social media landscape who can provide expertise, insight, and concrete help on a variety of related topics.

Upcoming Episodes of “Digital Ministry” include guests Father Andy Alexander, SJ, and Ms. Maureen McCann Waldron, of Creighton University’s Online Ministries; Sister Christine Ereiser, OSB, the Twittering Nun; Avinash Kaushik, the ultimate guru of web analytics; and Father Robert Barron, a prominent theologian and podcasting priest.

More information at http://aNunsLife.org/digital-ministry.

If you have ideas for possible topics or persons to interview, let us know! If you’d like to be sponsor of this or any of our other podcasts, check out our sponsorship page.

Also, we have also created a discussion forum for you to interact with one another any time of the day or night! Visit our Community Forum and look for the topic “Digital Ministry Podcast Listeners.” The forum is available now for you to start the conversation!

Please join me in thanking our Catholic Moments contributors by visiting their sites:  Deacon Tom Fox, Lisa Mladnich, Avery, Sarah Reinhard.

This episode of Catholic Moments is sponsored by CatholicMatch.com, the Leading Catholic Singles Community.  Share your feedback at 206-339-9272, comment here on the blog or email lisa@catholicmom.com.

Links for this Episode:

• USCCB Top Movies of 2009
• CNMC Video Archives
• SQPN Community
• Catholic Moments Podcast Facebook Page
• Catholic Moments at SQPN
• Current CatholicMom.com Contests
• CatholicMom.com Book Club
• The Catholic Company
• The Handbook for Catholic Moms:  The Catholic Company, Amazon, Aquinas and More or Barnes & Noble
• Lisa’s Facebook Profile, Twitter

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Now viewers from around the world can access all of our local programming, as well as other great Catholic shows from other content providers.  I’ve tested the live stream and have noted a few buffering issues, but hope you’ll head over to KNXT and check out the site and watch some of the programming while you’re there.

For months now, I’ve been looking forward to my upcoming television appearance on CatholicTV’s wonderful show This is the Day.  Imagine how I felt when the following press release landed in my inbox - the other guest on the show will be none other than Robert Duvall!  Unfortunately, I don’t think Mr. Duvall will be in studio, so I won’t be able to hand him a copy of my book in person, but it’s such an honor to share time on a show with such a noted actor.

Here are all of the details – I hope you’ll be able to tune in and watch what promises to be a very exciting show.

Academy-Award-Winning Actor Robert Duvall Will Appear on Live Catholic Talk Show

On August 6th, the live CatholicTV talk show “This is the Day” will include an interview with actor Robert Duvall.

Duvall will discuss his role in the upcoming film “Get Low”, “a movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party, while he was still alive”.

Duvall is well-known for playing the role of Tom Hagen in the film “The Godfather” and also won an academy award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role in the movie Tender Mercies (1983).

This is the Day airs at 10:30AM ET at CatholicTV.com and on CatholicTV. The show is rebroadcast at 7:30PM.

Catholic blogger and author Lisa Hendey will also be interviewed on This is the Day.

Lisa will discuss her new book, “The Handbook for Catholic Moms” which recently published by Ave Maria Press ( www.avemariapress.com) in February 2010.

Lisa is a Catholic mother, author, and founder of CatholicMom.com. In her new book, Lisa draws from the deep tradition of the Catholic faith, and coaches Catholic moms on how to care for themselvesŻheart, mind, body, and soulŻso that they can better love and care for their families, their neighbors, and their Church.

In her book, Lisa creates an environment where Catholic moms can reflect peacefully upon often-competitive topics like parenting style, types of schooling, and working outside the home. By sharing her own story, Hendey inspires readers to better balance their own needs with the demands of family life and faith commitment.

More information about Lisa and her book can be found at http://www.catholicmom.com/

More information about the film “Get Low” can be found at http://www.sonyclassics.com/getlow/

CatholicTV is a nationally-broadcasted television network streaming a live feed 24 hours a day at CatholicTV.com.  Heeding Pope Benedict XVI’s call to greater utilize the power of television and new media, the CatholicTV Network features its cable TV station, Catholic web site, mobile apps and widget.  Celebrate Mass online; pray The Rosary; enjoy programs on prayer, the saints, the Scriptures and the Catholic Church on America’s Catholic Television Network.

This episode of Catholic Moments is sponsored by CatholicMatch.com, the Leading Catholic Singles Community.  Share your feedback at 206-339-9272, comment here on the blog or email lisa@catholicmom.com.

I think I’m especially appreciating this meeting’s major theme of working on marriages since I’ve had recent experience with some troubled marriages in my life recently.  Perhaps it’s hitting one’s “late forties” that has opened my eyes to the lifelong hard work it takes to keep a strong marriage intact.  Honestly, even after twenty-four years of true love, I still feel as though Greg and I are learning day-by-day to truly love and serve one another and to keep Christ at the center of our relationship.

Being here is like being surrounded by newlyweds of all ages.  You see couples walking hand in hand, praying together, and listening diligently to the information being presented so that they can take it back to their dioceses and parishes.  I’ve never been on a Marriage Encounter weekend, but I’d imagine it has a similar vibe – just a good feeling that comes from being surrounded by many people who are really truly in love with the Lord and one another.

Tonight, our event opened with a prayer service led by Bishop Conlon of the Diocese of Steubenville.  His opening remarks underscored the importance of these meetings in reinvigorating the state of marriage in our Church.  Bishop Conlon was followed by the always-amazing Teresa Tomeo, who gave a keynote based on her book Noise: How Our Media-saturated Culture Dominates Lives and Dismantles Families, which has a spot of honor on my desk.  Although I’ve spoken with Teresa several times on the telephone, my brief chance to meet her in person today was a big honor for me.  Teresa’s commitment to her faith, her energy and zeal for her life’s work, and her fantastic communication skills make her one of my role models.  If you don’t already own  Noise, do yourself a favor and buy it today.  And if you ever have the chance to hear Teresa speak in person, no matter how far you have to travel to do so, go for it!  I guarantee that you will be edified and inspired!

To cap off an already perfect day (hey, even my flights were perfect – on time, and I got the exit row!), tonight we celebrated a beautiful Mass in the chapel here at Xavier University.  With two bishops presiding and a church full of amazing people, you could truly feel the power of the Holy Spirit among us.

Now it’s off to bed, as I am waking up early for my 8:30 (ET) visit with Brian Patrick and the crew of the Son Rise Morning Show.  Producer and friend Matt Swaim, author of The Eucharist and the Rosary: Mystery, Meditation, Power, Prayer is kindly allowing me to crash the studio early for a field trip.

I hope to share more tomorrow about the conference.  Others here tomorrow include Matthew Kelly and Dr. Greg and Lisa Popcak.  Until then, God bless you!

Mentioned in this week’s show:

• John Michael Talbot
• Illuminated Ink
• Wee Believers
• Vatican Library Collection
• Pauline Books and Media
• 10-20-30 Go!
• Bert Ghezzi
• The Word Among Us
• Paulist Press
• Ave Maria Press

This episode of Catholic Moments is sponsored by CatholicMatch.com, the Leading Catholic Singles Community.  Share your feedback at 206-339-9272, comment here on the blog or email lisa@catholicmom.com.

• St. James Church – Basking Ridge, NJ – “Nurturing Your Family’s Faith Life with 21st Century Resources” – June 13, 2010 – 4:00 pm – Event Details
• St. Catharine’s Church – Glen Rock, NJ – “Raising Faith Filled Children in Today’s Technological Climate” – June 14, 2010 – 7:30 pm – Event Details
• Meet and Greet/Mom’s Night Out Event – Pauline Book Center, New York, NY – June 15, 2010, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm 212.754.1110 – Event Details

• Meet and Greet/Mom’s Night Out Event – Pauline Book Center, Culver City, CA – May 6, 2010, 6:30 pm – Event Details
• Meet and Greet/Mom’s Night Out Event – Pauline Book Center, San Diego, CA – May 7, 2010 6:30 pm – Event Details
• Book Signing – GodSpace Religious Books & Music – Thousand Oaks, CA – May 8, 2010 – 12 pm – 2 pm – Event Details
• Mother’s Day Book Signing – The Cathedral Gift Shop – Los Angeles, CA – May 9, 2010 – Event Details

My mom will be with me and we’re excited about getting out to meet friends and readers in Southern California.  Can you help me spread the word about these events?  If you would please share this information with your parish and/or school for bulletins and newsletters, that would be a huge help! Additional appearances and all event details can be found at http://lisahendey.com/media/

For friends and readers in the New York/New Jersey area, I am planning a trip to your area for mid June.  I’d love to come visit your parish or organization!  For additional details, contact me by email at lisa@catholicmom.com.

Thought I’d share a few of these items with you in a quick way.  More details on several of these to follow soon!

• The Office of Religious Education for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has a new blog.  Way to go Dione Grillo!  Find them here.
• SQPN Connect has a new home here to replace the old and soon to be defunct Ning feature.  Easy to find and a great place to “hang out” when you have five spare minutes and want to spend them with fun friends!
• Facebook is up to their revisions again – check out your privacy settings to double check what you and your children are putting “out there”.
• Faith & Family will be sponsoring a great event on October 30.  Join Danielle Bean, Rachel Balducci and me plus other great members from the F&F team at St. Michael’s parish in North Andover, MA.  Details here.  Happy news for me, since I’ll get to hang out with some of my favorite bloggers and make a side trip to visit Eric at Harvard.  Be there!
• Father Robert Reed of Catholic TV was recently featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” discussing Catholic TV’s move to include 3D videos – how cool is that!
• Speaking of cool priests – Fr. James Martin, SJ is all over the place.  His great book The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life continues to occupy the top spot on the Catholic bestseller list at Amazon.  He had a great post on The Huffington Post this week and was also featured over at BigThink with a video series.  I loved his comments below on being a regular on Colbert – Go Fr. Jim!
• I’ll be back tomorrow with more – hope you’ve had a terrific day!

The more time I spend in the company of Catholic moms, the more hopeful I am about the future of our Church.  With so many faith filled women dedicating themselves to their domestic churches, our future leaders are getting a great base for their faith formation, as well as a true knowledge of God’s continual love for each for us.

Thank you again to the “Anns” who made last night possible, and to all those who made the effort to come out.  Also, just a quick reminder that I will be speaking briefly and signing books tonight at the Pauline Book and Media Center on Michigan Avenue here in Chicago at 6:30 pm, and on Saturday, 4/17 at the Hammes Bookstore at Notre Dame at 1:00 pm.  I’d love to meet you in person!

If you would like to bring me out to speak with your parish or organization, please email lisa@catholicmom.com.

• Meet and Greet/Mom’s Nigh Out Event – Pauline Book Center, Chicago, IL – April 14, 2010 6:30 pm – Event Details
• Book Talk, Signing and Reception – University of Notre Dame Hammes Bookstore – April 17, 2010 1:00 pm – Event Details