Something New is Coming!
Shortly after moving my blog to St. Blog’s, the St. Blog’s administrator asked me if I would be interested in recording my homilies, and making them available as a podcast. I told him that while I would be interested, I did not know how to make a podcast.
Thank goodness for Mac and iLife. I opened that free program that came with my iBook called GarageBand, and in very little time I had figured out how to make a podcast. Last night, after finishing my homily for this coming weekend, sat down and recorded my very first podcast. I even added a little music to the intro. I am sure it is not the most polished, but I think I will improve as I do more. In any case, I sent my podcast to the St. Blog’s administrator and he is going to post it this weekend. You will note on the sidebar of this blog a new section called “My Podcasts.” You can click on it now, but you will not find my homily podcast there yet. You will only find the homilies for a Fr. Augustine in St. Louis. Mine will be added this weekend.
It was fun making my first podcast. I hope to start another podcast called “School of Community” that will share my thoughts on what I am reading in my Communion and Liberation group. Right now we are studying Msgr. Luigi Giussani’s recently translated book, The Journey to Truth is an Experience. Of course pastoral duties will have to take precedent.
March 1st, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Did you get my other email concerning your podcast?
March 1st, 2007 at 1:26 pm
I don’t know. What did it say? I got two from you. One said that my podcast looked great, that you would hold to post it until this weekend, and gave me a suggestion about the description. The other was about the iTune store. For now, don’t worry about that. I realized that it would limit who could get it; only those with iTunes (Mac or PC). Maybe we should have a RSS thingy so that people can “subscribe” just so they know when a new podcast has been posted.
Also, what if I wanted to do another kind of podcast, that is not a homily? I am involved with withe ecclesial movement called Communion and Liberation, so I thought I would do a podcast discussing the book currently being studied in our weekly School of Community. Could I post it on St. Blog’s?