CatholicTV launched a new website today, appropriately dubbed “Your Catholic Broadband Network.” The site is an amazing collection of the video archives of the station along with a live Flash video stream powered by Internap and an array of the best of Catholic blog, podcasts and ‘viewer-generated” video..
In addition, a new monthly schedule will be provided in the station’s free magazine, “The CatholicTV Monthly” with frequent updates and new programmatic additions. Some of those additions are a collection of sixteen Rosaries recorded around the nation. From the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at Notre Dame to the glory of a New England autumn, these new HD Rosaries will greatly enhance the prayer life of the CatholicTV audience.
Beginning on the first Sunday of Advent the Mass from the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame will be televised live weekly on CatholicTV at 10 a.m. Sundays (ET) beginning November 30, 2008. The Mass from Notre Dame is also streamed live and archived online at CatholicTV.com.
“We are pleased to partner with CatholicTV to provide the 10:00 a.m. Mass from the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at Notre Dame each Sunday morning. CatholicTV has strong East coast distribution and a strategy for growing its cable audience on a nationwide scale. We are firmly committed to bringing quality Catholic liturgies to a national and global audience,” said Rev. Richard V. Warner, C.S.C., director of Campus Ministry.
Notre Dame broadcasted Mass from the Basilica on the Hallmark Channel from 2002 until June 2008, and also on DIRECTV in 2007. The Basilica staff has received thousands of enthusiastic and appreciative letters and messages from viewers across the country since June requesting that television carriage continue for the Mass. Many viewers are unable to attend Mass at their local parish for physical reasons and others tell of how Notre Dame’s Mass enriches the experience of their local parish liturgy.
The University's Liturgical Choir, under the direction of Dr. Gail Walton, provides music for the 10 a.m. Sunday Mass during the academic year, while the Basilica Community Collegium Choir, under the direction of Dr. Andrew McShane, provides the music for the liturgy when academic year classes are not in session. Special technical effort has been made to capture the voices as they are heard by the congregation in the Basilica. Masses at Notre Dame are marked by the full participation of the assembly in the liturgy. Each Sunday the Basilica is usually filled to capacity for its regularly scheduled liturgies.
The audio and video equipment installed in the Basilica has been designed to be architecturally sensitive to the beauty of the Basilica and to ensure that the broadcasts capture the beauty of the liturgy without disrupting the sanctity of prayer. Technical production of the Mass is provided by Pentavision Communications Inc., which operates the broadcast equipment from a specially designed control room located in the basement of the Basilica. WNDU-TV sends the broadcast via fiber optics to CatholicTV’s master control.
More information on the Basilica of the Sacred Heart is available at http://basilica.nd.edu/, including the ability to download Mass on the Internet, view readings and music texts online, learn about the many Basilica choirs, take a virtual tour of the Basilica, and much more.
CloisteredLife.com Attracts Visitors
After only three weeks since its launch, a redesigned website on Catholic religious communities has nearly tripled its number of web visitors from the previous month.
CloisteredLife.com, which focuses on religious communities whose main focus is prayer, rather than outside work, has seen more than 1,300 unique page visits in November since its launch Nov. 5.
“Much of the interest came in the website’s treatment of Pro Orantibus Day, Nov. 21, a day of prayer for those in cloistered communities, since the site carried resources to celebrate that day,” stated Kevin Banet, president of TreeFrogClick, Inc., which expanded the website from 12 to 20 pages.
“This shows how much interest there is in not only religious life, but in the life of those in monasteries and hermitages who are totally dedicated to God in prayer, silence and hiddenness,” he said.
The website features new pages of testimonies of sisters who found their vocation, as well as literature and other resources on the contemplative and cloistered life. It can be seen at www.cloisteredlife.com.
CloisteredLife.com, which focuses on religious communities whose main focus is prayer, rather than outside work, has seen more than 1,300 unique page visits in November since its launch Nov. 5.
“Much of the interest came in the website’s treatment of Pro Orantibus Day, Nov. 21, a day of prayer for those in cloistered communities, since the site carried resources to celebrate that day,” stated Kevin Banet, president of TreeFrogClick, Inc., which expanded the website from 12 to 20 pages.
“This shows how much interest there is in not only religious life, but in the life of those in monasteries and hermitages who are totally dedicated to God in prayer, silence and hiddenness,” he said.
The website features new pages of testimonies of sisters who found their vocation, as well as literature and other resources on the contemplative and cloistered life. It can be seen at www.cloisteredlife.com.
HLI Website to Help Clergy Preach Humanae Vitae
FRONT ROYAL, VA — The Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, STL, president of Human Life International, (HLI) has announced the launching of a new email newsletter and website to assist priests, deacons and seminarians to be well informed and able to preach on Humanae Vitae.
The move is part of HLI’s Humanae Vitae Initiative celebrating 40 years since Pope Paul VI released the landmark papal encyclical on birth control.
In the first installment of the newsletter, sent March 6, Father Euteneuer said, “HLI was founded thirty-five years ago—even before Roe v. Wade—primarily to defend the sanctity of marriage from the degradation of birth control. HLI’s Founder, Fr. Paul Marx, OSB, studied contraception carefully and saw the abortion plague coming as an inevitable wave of death that follows in the train of the promiscuity generated by birth control. He predicted with deadly accuracy that the fruit of birth control would be legalized abortion.”
Father Euteneuer has placed the project under the direction of John Mallon, HLI’s PR Director and long-time champion of Humanae Vitae. In 1994, then-editor of the Sooner Catholic, the archdiocesan newspaper of Oklahoma City, Mallon put out an issue of the paper on the 26th anniversary featuring the document on the front page and a special pull-out supplement within. At the direction of Archbishop Eusebius J. Beltran the issue was sent to all American bishops. In 1998 Mallon was responsible for producing a special supplement for Inside the Vatican magazine for the 30th anniversary of the document.
Mallon will write many of the installments and invite world-renowned experts to contribute. Mallon said, “The widespread rejection of this encyclical is perhaps the most tragic error in the Church’s history, an error to which many still cling to this day. We hope to demonstrate how this error launched the culture of death, opening the gate to abortion and myriad other social ills. We also hope to show how, like all of Christ’s teachings, Humanae Vitae is a message of hope, which, once applied in an admittedly hostile culture, can heal our society. But it must be preached in a positive and hopeful way.”
The website and newsletter may be accessed at http://humanaevitaepriests.org.
The move is part of HLI’s Humanae Vitae Initiative celebrating 40 years since Pope Paul VI released the landmark papal encyclical on birth control.
In the first installment of the newsletter, sent March 6, Father Euteneuer said, “HLI was founded thirty-five years ago—even before Roe v. Wade—primarily to defend the sanctity of marriage from the degradation of birth control. HLI’s Founder, Fr. Paul Marx, OSB, studied contraception carefully and saw the abortion plague coming as an inevitable wave of death that follows in the train of the promiscuity generated by birth control. He predicted with deadly accuracy that the fruit of birth control would be legalized abortion.”
Father Euteneuer has placed the project under the direction of John Mallon, HLI’s PR Director and long-time champion of Humanae Vitae. In 1994, then-editor of the Sooner Catholic, the archdiocesan newspaper of Oklahoma City, Mallon put out an issue of the paper on the 26th anniversary featuring the document on the front page and a special pull-out supplement within. At the direction of Archbishop Eusebius J. Beltran the issue was sent to all American bishops. In 1998 Mallon was responsible for producing a special supplement for Inside the Vatican magazine for the 30th anniversary of the document.
Mallon will write many of the installments and invite world-renowned experts to contribute. Mallon said, “The widespread rejection of this encyclical is perhaps the most tragic error in the Church’s history, an error to which many still cling to this day. We hope to demonstrate how this error launched the culture of death, opening the gate to abortion and myriad other social ills. We also hope to show how, like all of Christ’s teachings, Humanae Vitae is a message of hope, which, once applied in an admittedly hostile culture, can heal our society. But it must be preached in a positive and hopeful way.”
The website and newsletter may be accessed at http://humanaevitaepriests.org.
Gregorian Chant on CatholicTV
Father Jerome Molokie is a Norbertine priest who lives at St. Michael’s Abbey in Silverado, California. 2 small groups of Norbertine priests fled communist persecution in Hungary about 50 years ago and sought refuge in America. They now have a beautiful Abbey in the mountains of California. The religious order is named after their founder St. Norbert, who was born in the year 1080. A.D. They have been chanting for hundreds of years, but for the first time ever, they are releasing a Christmas CD featuring their beautiful chanting.
This will be the main topic of Fr. Molokie’s interview on CatholicTV’s talk show “This is the Day”. It will be viewable on Tuesday, Nov. 25th live at 10:30AM at www.catholictv.org. Also featured, will be video footage of the monastery and its priests.
Also featured on the show will be Bishop Richard Malone, who is bishop of Portland Maine. Bishop Malone will be discussing how he and the other bishops plan to draw churchgoers closer to Christ through education and the sacraments.
Friday's “This Is The Day” is rebroadcast throughout the weekend (Friday at 6 p.m., Saturday at 6 p.m. and Sunday at 6:30 p.m.). A new live show airs Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. The show can also be seen on demand at www.CatholicTV.com or downloaded via itunes.com. The hosts discuss various topics of the week and respond to viewer mail (you may email the show at thisistheday@catholictv.org.
About CatholicTV:
CatholicTV provides family-friendly, religious, news, and educational programming 24 hours daily. Founded over 50 years ago, CatholicTV is available in selected areas on cable in the United States and Canada, via Sky Angel IPTV and online via a live stream anytime, everywhere at the station's web site. Father Robert Reed, a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston, is the Executive Director of CatholicTV.
This will be the main topic of Fr. Molokie’s interview on CatholicTV’s talk show “This is the Day”. It will be viewable on Tuesday, Nov. 25th live at 10:30AM at www.catholictv.org. Also featured, will be video footage of the monastery and its priests.
Also featured on the show will be Bishop Richard Malone, who is bishop of Portland Maine. Bishop Malone will be discussing how he and the other bishops plan to draw churchgoers closer to Christ through education and the sacraments.
Friday's “This Is The Day” is rebroadcast throughout the weekend (Friday at 6 p.m., Saturday at 6 p.m. and Sunday at 6:30 p.m.). A new live show airs Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. The show can also be seen on demand at www.CatholicTV.com or downloaded via itunes.com. The hosts discuss various topics of the week and respond to viewer mail (you may email the show at thisistheday@catholictv.org.
About CatholicTV:
CatholicTV provides family-friendly, religious, news, and educational programming 24 hours daily. Founded over 50 years ago, CatholicTV is available in selected areas on cable in the United States and Canada, via Sky Angel IPTV and online via a live stream anytime, everywhere at the station's web site. Father Robert Reed, a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston, is the Executive Director of CatholicTV.
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