• Jane drinks kiwi berries.
• The Dedication of the Cathedral of the Holy Family will be taking place on Sunday, May 13th, 2012.
• It’s the culmination of a week of festivities. Woo woo!
• Someone from a NET team made a clever observation.
• Andy and Jane helped plan a family carnival to kick off the festivities.
• Warren, the balloon man, is awesome. He made Thomas.
  

  Spencer with Thomas the Balloon Tank Engine

  Out of balloons.
• The new building has stats. Darryl talks about them.
• Salt and Light will be recording the dedication.
• Apparently dedications are complicated. Go figure.
• The last cathedral dedication in North America was… probably the one in L.A. (2002)? In Canada, it’s probably been a few decades at least. Sacred Heart in Prince George (1960′s) might be the most recent?
• The Crystal Cathedral will be the new cathedral in Orange.
• Get tickets to the grand gathering.
• The Prayer of Dedication is pretty.
• Sticky is available for visual appreciation at andyland.ca
• Granite does not absorb oil, apparently.
• Remember: No kissing until after the blessing (of the altar).
• Sarah Hall made nice windows.
• Find people who have talents and are willing to share them.
• Google Docs, Dropbox and Backpack.

Hashtag of the Week: #cathedral2012 and #saskadedication

Question of the Week: Who will win the Stanley Cup this year? (Go Riders!)

Song(s) of the Week: “A Listening Heart” by Bob Hurd, composed and dedicated “to the faithful of the Diocese of Saskatoon on the occasion of the blessing of the Cathedral of the Holy Family”. It’s on the album Dining in the Kingdom.

Cathedral of the Holy Family

Join us as we talk about our experiences of Holy Week and Easter! What were your experiences?

Items we discussed:

• The NHL Playoffs have been great so far.
• Ice Ice Baby
• Andy and Jane’s computer is on the blink. So Andy podcasts from his phone and makes notes on paper.
• Happy birthday, Pope Benedict!
• The new translation of the Exsultet talks about bees. This reminds Jane of Homestar Runner (and Fr. Darryl of the Bumble Bee man on The Simpsons).
• The Triduum was tiring but good. And blizzard-y in Fr. Darryl’s area.
• Jane getting sick was not so good.
• Fr. Darryl’s dog forgot where the bathroom was. (And it’s not because Andy was podcasting from there…)
• This Week in Tech (TWiT.tv) had a Jesuit priest on the most recent episode!

Hashtag of the Week: #cebu

Question of the Week: Would you Skype the Pope?

Song(s) of the Week: I’m Sensitive to Bees by Marzipan, with appearances from Homestar Runner and Strongbad; and Song of the Cebu from VeggieTales.

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• Andy goes crazy.
• Jane had a THINKfast.
• Darryl plays catch up.
• By the rivers of Babylon. There we sat and wept.
• RCIA: The Roman Catholic Intelligence Agency.
• L’Arche rocks.
• Darryl plays with music.
• holyfamilycathedral.ca and watsoncatholic.ca both launched recently.
• andyland.ca | ajk2.ca | saskapriest.com
• Public face, personal branding, and stuff like that. Fr. Darryl’s been listening to a lot of Terry O’Reilly’s Under the Influence on CBC Radio, apparently.
• QR codes, not QC codes.
• Lino Rulli. Catholic Guy.
• Mark Shea’s cookies

Hashtag of the Week: #spoonsofsalsa

Question of the Week: How has your Lent gone?

Song of the Week: Freedom Fighters (aka. the Star Trek movie trailer music) by Two Steps from Hell (Nick Phoenix and Thomas Bergersen), from the album “Invincible”. (The name kind of reminds Darryl of the Black Knight in Holy Grail.)

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• Jane eats yogurt.
• Jane attended the Canadian Catholic Youth Ministry Network (CCYMN) conference.
• Fr Darryl helped organize the Study Days for the priests of Saskatoon.
• Poutine. Cheese curds. Good times.
• Archbishops give speaks, apparently: Smith, Prendergast, & Durocher.
• Be Still. Ooh, that World Comm Day message rears its head again!
• Colm Leyne from Saskatoon and Clayton Imoo from Vancouver.
• Elk Ridge Resort in Waskesiu.
• Lino Rulli‘s presence in Saskatchewan made Fr. Darryl very excited!
• The first ever Catholic jacuzzi broadcast!
• Everything communicates something, so what are we communicating?
• Authentic and genuine is better than phony. So don’t be phony (unless you happen to be a telephone).
• Human resources makes pastors happy.
• Lino experienced the joys of curling.
• The LA Religious Education Congress is a fantastic resource as well.

Hashtag of the Week: #iliketurtles (explanation)

Song of the Week: Four Chord Song by Axis of Awesome (which gave Take On Me by A-Ha the boot).

Question of the Week: How did you spend your weekend?

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We’re back from our extended, exhaustion-induced hiatus. And it’s nearly Lent! So we discuss the world of Lent!

• St Francis really is stalking Andy and Jane, apparently.
• Ash Wednesday is this week, though our Eastern peoples have already started.
• Message of Benedict XVI for Lent 2012: “Let us be concerned for each other, to stir a response in love and good works” (Heb 10:24)
• Prayer, Fasting, and Charity! (+ Works of Mercy??)
• Katanoein – to observe carefully. Go Greek or go home.
• Silence seems to be a recurring theme.
• It’s our duty to tell people where to go.
• Tolerance vs. Intolerance.
• Do good stuff.
• Busy-ness, sloth, and neglecting spiritual needs.
• Shout-out to our spiffy new cardinal, Thomas Collins!

Question of the Week: What are you doing for Lent, or considering doing? Any ideas for 2 year olds? Does anyone actually read these finely crafted shownotes?

Song of the Week: “The World Belongs to You” by Jonathan Coulton. Andy is inordinately fond of his stuff.

Note to the world: We’re moving to more of a every-two-weeks-ish schedule. Officially, not just because that’s what happened.

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Fr Darryl returns from the land of sun and gators, and so we’re talkin’ World Communications Day! W00t!

Our discussions mostly revolve around:

• Kijafa (as opposed to Jaffa Kree!)
• WCD is on May 20, 2012
• Silence and Word: Path of Evangelization, the message from Pope Benedict XVI for the 46th World Communications Day
• The letter acknowledges the place and necessity of silence.
• It’s like a crock pot. Just like a crock pot.
• God’s own silence.
• Balthasarian: of or related to Hans Urs von Balthasar.
• Video – Ken Yasinski (of Face to Face Ministries) – Mary: Extra-ordinary Faith in Ordinary Times
• Like Mary, what do we allow to blossom in us?
• Allowing God to get a word in edgewise (as opposed to what Andy and Darryl did).
• Skype decided to end the podcast by failing. Twice. Enjoy the music!

Question of the Week: Do you communicate with silence too? Is Pop a genre of music anymore?

Song of the Week: The One That Got Away by Katy Perry.

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Some topics that come up on the chit chat:

• Fr. Darryl’s leaving us. Forever. Well, for 10 days, starting on Tuesday.
• LCBO FOOD & DRINK magazines have really good recipes.
• Jane made butter.
• Waskesiu is the place to be. For priests. In March.
• What’s going on in your diocese and parish to help with adult faith formation?
• Andy and Jane are drinking a Cheeky Monkey.
• The General Directory for Catechesis
• It says lots of things. It’s a pretty big book.
• “It takes a village to raise a child, but if you’re all village idiots…” (Jane)
• Communion and intimacy through catechesis.
• Adult catechesis is good because Jesus did it. If it was good enough for Jesus, it should be good enough for me!
• Parents often put their children first, and this may contribute to the lack of adult faith formation.
• But it’s everyone’s responsibility.
• Offering opportunities makes it easier for people to actually do stuff.
• Interactive learning typically is good. Different people learn in different ways. Shocking!
• New media, internet, yadda, yadda, yadda.
• What experiences of adult faith formation have worked for you? Or what have you been looking at using?

Question of the Week: Should Fr. Darryl feel guilty for heading south for 10 days and ditching all of his parishioners in the great white north?

Song of the Week: “Moonlight” by The Piano Guys

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• World will not end in 2012, says Regina man
• The new Cathedral of the Holy Family is pretty spiffy. There will be pictures up sometime.
• Andy and Jane love having a new space to do stuff.
• Note to Andy: take pictures of the new place.
• When do you review programs that you run?
• Winter/Spring – new life, resolutions, etc.
• Summer – new school year
• Liturgical Seasons – Lent, Advent, etc.
• Catholicism Series by Fr. Robert Barron
• Mid-year or semesterly reviews are good, they are.
• But… September is very busy for a farming community that needs to do harvest right then. Know your community.
• Volunteer recruiting season. Ministry signup weekends, etc.
• Year-long schedules? Shorter? 2-3 months seems good. That’s what we say.
• Volunteer Appreciation
• Potluck dinner
• Treating everyone to dinner elsewhere
• Staff serve a catered meal

Question of the Week: Did you make any New Years Resolutions?

Song of the Week: Rasputin by Boney M. (Some peoples try to fade me.)

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