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Always doing the work of Church and faith, the two Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, Joan Mitchell and Therese Sherlock, who publish Sunday by Sunday, SPIRIT for Teens are social.
Every day at 10:15 Catholic homeschoolers and religious education workers tune into Twitter for #OurCatholicFaith—a daily series of teen-friendly Catholic doctrine and questions about faith. The SPIRIT4Teens.com blog addresses the big issues raised in each week's gospel and relates them to a teenager's daily life. The SPIRIT Xtra YouTube playlist features popular music videos that relate faith to real life.
Sister Joan also Tweets daily at noon excerpts from her Sunday by Sunday gospel reflection and blogs about faith and social justice at KeepingFaithToday.com. For the more visually faithful, Good Ground Press created a beautiful set of Pinterest boards that feature books by all the http://csjstpaul.org/ and their art embodied in religious greeting cards.
Pope Benedict XVI joined Twitter June 29, 2011 saying "Dear Friends, I just launched www.news.va. Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI." Sister Joan joins Pope Benedict XVI in Tweeting daily about Lent by suggesting simple activities to live faith during this holy season, "Today for #Lent: Visit a shut-in" and "Today for #Lent: Visit a church you pass regularly."
While Catholics are not avid readers of online religious materials per CARA, Good Ground Press hopes to catch the attention of people surfing on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest in hopes of sparking their interest in faith sharing.
An advocate of faith sharing in small groups, Sister Joan's new book, Mark's Gospel, the Whole Story is for individuals, bible study groups, and small Christian communities that want to use its simple tools, become active bible readers and explore the revealing patterns of the whole gospel. For Catholics and other faiths who follow the common lectionary cycle, the year 2012 is the year of Mark, Cycle B, in the Church's cycles of scripture readings. Mark's gospel is first to be written and the closest to oral traditions.
Good Ground Press publishes gospel-centered Catholic resources to draw people in to reflecting together, opening their faith lives to nourish one another, and sustaining one another in their commitments to the gospel work of mercy and justice.
UpWord Studios (http://www.upwordstudios.org), a non-profit organization that supports and funds the creation of Catholic new media, today launched The Rosary multi-touch ebook on iTunes. As one of the first interactive digital books available on iTunes, this inaugural project by UpWord Studios demonstrates how digital technology can enhance religious teachings and practice in the Catholic Church and other religious denominations.
Working with content licensed from ACTA Publications, Loyola Press, and Carrick Ministries, The Rosary was designed to serve as a participative praying and teaching aid for the iPad. It can be utilized by everyone from ministers and educators to laypeople and non-Catholic seekers to learn how to fully experience praying the rosary, which is one of the most popular of all Catholic devotions.
The Rosary multi-touch ebook features:
Interactive content, including embedded graphics, video, and audio
Animations and dynamic diagrams that change with touch gestures
Flash cards and glossary
Interactive quizzes
This Multi-Touch ebook also leverages the iPad feature set, including landscape and portrait modes, pinch-to-zoom, color highlight and annotation, and digital notes.
“Today’s technologies like the iPad’s digital books enable people to learn about, participate in, and share Catholic teachings with greater involvement and effectiveness,” said Fred Fosnacht, founder of UpWord Studios. “We’re pleased to work with ACTA, Loyola Press and Carrick Ministries to deliver The Rosary as our first Catholic new media project, and to bring an innovative and important new tool to the experience of learning about and praying the rosary.”
UpWord Studios’ project pipeline includes work with a variety of collaborators on Catholic new media initiatives, including:
iPhone and iPad apps
Interactive games
Webcasts and live video streaming
Podcasts and videocasts
Virtual event experiences
Online communities
Pricing and Availability
The Rosary multi-touch ebook is now available for download on the iTunes store for US$14.99.