When angels sing, the heavens rejoice, and when angelic voices sing, we should should do the same–especially when those voices sing for those in need. Some of the most beautiful voices of our time have come together for Haiti in this gorgeous rendition of “The Prayer”: Information about how to obtain a copy of the recording and help raise money for Haiti, visit this link. Thanks to Deacon Greg Kandra for sharing.
In our limited human language, we have used many images to attempt to describe God: an old white man with a beard, a dove, a pillar of fire, a gentle whisper. Here’s a new one: God is like a moonwalking bear. Let me explain. But first, if you haven’t seen it yet, you need to watch this YouTube video: God is always present in our lives, but we often fail to see him. We are too distracted by the many details and concerns of life. We get caught...
My 8th grade students just wrapped up a video project for Religion and here are two of their creations, based on the music of the Catholic band Popple: Little White Square: Papal Disco: The class would love to hear what you think of them, so please leave comments on the videos or on this post. And please spread the word. Thanks, and enjoy!
Need to inspire someone to read? Here’s a fantastic video from Ocoee Middle School: Tip of the Hat to the Educators group on Diigo.
St. Francis de Sales’ Introduction to the Devout Life is one of my favorite spiritual classics. If you’re looking for a good read this Lent, I highly recommend it, especially the ten meditations St. Francis provides. At one time, I thought I would try adapting those ten meditations for today’s junior high students (age 10-15). I even had the thought to turn them into videos for the iPod generation. I’ve since had to put that idea on hold indefinitely, but here’s the first video I made, for what...
Like most people, my eighth graders struggle with trying to understand what hell is and how to avoid it. In the following video, Fr. Barron offers a clear and succinct explanation: Tip of the hat to Fr. Christensen of the White Around the Collar blog.
As I try out the site’s new look, I wanted to see what embedding a video looked like. Here’s a great public service announcement:
Be the life of the party by learning this funny clown routine using books:
Simon Vance does a superb job reading every character in Patrick O’Brian’s Master and Commander except one: the central character Jack Aubrey. I just finished listening to Blackstone Audio’s unabridged version of Master and Commander, and the book keeps getting better each time I experience it. I first read it about ten years ago, then a few years after that I listened to Patrick Tull’s unabridged audio recording from RecordedBooks.com. This time around I didn’t get so bogged down trying to understand the naval jargon, so I was...
As you’re relaxing today, why not try your hand at making this really cool origami mini-book:
Naxos Audiobooks has released a video trailer of Neville Jason recording War and Peace. It’s fascinating to watch him act out the book as he reads. I never realized that audio book narrators actually read from books. I always thought the book was made into a script before recording. But you can see for yourself that he’s using a hardcover copy of the book, and has even dog-eared some of the pages: I read War and Peace once, but I have to admit that I went through the...
I’m experimenting with Windows Movie Maker and have created this video illustrating John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields.” The audio comes from Librivox.org and the photos come from the Wikimedia Commons Project. Let me know what you think.
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