Fr. Jack Kane, CM, the pastor at St. Mary’s Church in Opelika, AL is allowing the parish to record Sunday homilies and post the recordings as podcasts on the parish website.
Parish websites are common – especially in the United States. However, these internet sites can do more than just inform interested parties about mass times, how to get to the church and special events. Parish websites can be a tool of evangelization.
This summer, the parish began experimenting with recording Sunday homilies and posting them as podcasts on the parish website. One of the driving forces behind this is to allow parishioners who cannot always be physically present at mass to share in the Word via the web. Others have indicated an interest in being able to listen again to a particularly moving homily.
To listen, go to the Pastor’s Corner on the St. Mary’s website.
For other examples of podcasting with the Central Association of the Miraculous Medal in Germantown which podcasting the sermons of the Monday Novena and dePaul University’s series on the charism of Vincent.
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See also Vincentian use of YouTube
Tags: Congregation of the Mission, parish, Podcasts
And the benefit is not just to parishioners. I’m discovering with the podcasts I’m posting on my own blog, Creo en Dios!, that people in far off locations with whom I have no direct contact, and who would not had the opportunity to hear any of the talks that are the basis for my podcasts, are finding and listening to them. So there is far reaching potential for evangelization here.
In the world where people are constantly “on-go”, moving from place to place, traveling, commuting, initiatives like podcast mobile video streaming are to help them cope with modern demands and expectations.
If you can upload music or audio books to your MP3 player or iPod, record classes or lectures to listen to them while traveling home or to school or just relaxing on the sofa, why can’t you upload a homily, a meditation and so? And if you record your message how many people will listen to you at classroom or church? And how many will get your recorded message when-on-go? To listen to podcast you do not have to see the speaker. You are not limited to read his speech. You can listen to the speaker, as you were present during his lecture. And you can forward the podcast file to your friends, neighbors, students or replay it again and again.
God would not allow people to invent podcasting if He had not wanted people to use the technology to spread His Kingdom wider than ever.
Within next few days you will be given more information and guidelines of Vincentian podcasts and how to create podcasts by yourselves in Vincentian Encyclopedia
“Vincentian Encyclopedia” is already containing two articles Introduction to Podcasting and Vincentians and Podcasting which offer you some information of how to use podcasting in every day ministry and provide some resource to use