Moving Home!

Hello,

This is the last post on this blog at this web address – because I’m moving home!  From now on, the Just A Catholic Dad blog will be hosted on my website – so if you want to read or contribute to the blog, just go along to www.justacatholicdad.com and there the blog will be!  I’ll be keeping this page active as an archive and a reserve should I ever need to move back, but all the posts up to the previous one can be found on the new site.

Thank you for popping by and see you there!

Sean

Just A Catholic Dad 27 – Princess Lovelocks

In this episode – Holiday Planning – Sean stylee, Matters of Life and Death, 60 Second Saint and oodles of great feedback.

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Billy Newton’s Blogs:

http://theblogofthecourtier.blogspot.com

http://catholicbarcelona.blogspot.com

 Christopher West’s Theology of The Body Resources:

 http://www.ascensionpress.com/shop/Scripts/prodList.asp?idCategory=73

http://www.catholicity.com/cds/downloads/mp3.html

60 Second Saint – St Monica, kindly supplied by Tom Brodell

End Music ‘Hope Is Born’ by Desmond Pringle, available through Music Alley

 Please send your feedback to feedback@justacatholicdad.com!  I love to hear from you.

God Bless

Sean

Just A Catholic Dad 26 – Don’t Mess With Poles!

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Hello Again!

In this episode, Caitie has a birthday and I have a close encounter with a pole.  Some thoughts also about how society deals with the loss of an unborn baby.

60 Second Saint this week is St John Fisher, kindly recorded by Pat Denning. 

End Music ‘Jesus’ by Cindy Kelly, available through www.musicalley.com

I’d love to hear your feedback, so please drop me a line at feedback@justacatholicdad.com.  You can send me some MP3 feedback there too (hint!).  Find me on Facebook at Just A Catholic Dad or ‘Sean McCarney’, or follow me on Twitter (seanmccarney).

Thanks for listening!

God Bless

Sean

Just A Catholic Dad 25 – So Long, Santa

Hi Guys, sorry about the late posting of this episode – I’ll explain all in JACD 26!

In this episode: The McCarney Christmas Story; Dan does a brilliant 60 Second Saint; lots of feedback, Caitie’s latest princess tale and my thoughts on Holy Days of Obligation.

Music ‘A Savior Is Born’ by Charlie Catura, available through Music Alley.

Send your feedback (please!) to feedback@justacatholicdad.com.

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Just A Catholic Dad 24 – Oil Be Back!

Hi Guys! On the road again for this episode of JACD, so please excuse the odd edit fumble, the sound being not so good and the general sense of being disorganised! This ep, it’s the Great McCarney Oil Crisis of 2010, seeking refuge in a church, Mary vs the Angels, some more on Ep 23’s subject (OK for kids this time though!), some great feedback including my first MP3 – Yay! Also, a 60 Second Saint from Tom Brodell. Some Catholic News and that’s about it…

Contact me at feedback@justacatholicdad.com. I love gettiung feedback!

End music ‘The Holy Light’ by Brian Magnum.  You can find his music at www.musicalley.com

Have a Happy New Year

Sean

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Selfish, Immature, Spoilt, Self-obsessed and Egotistical – Elton John Obtains A Christmas Baby

Selfish, immature, spoilt, self-obsessed and egotistical – I give you Sir Elton John who, along with his partner David Furnish have obtained a Christmas baby as their latest toy. This child is a replacement object of affection for a deceased close friend, apparently, according to this prissy, egomaniacal pop star. They are, reportedly, “overwhelmed with happiness and joy at this very special moment”.  Quite.  It is a sad reflection of our modern world that this situation is seen by some as a cause for celebration. It’s not. It is the use of a child as a commodity to satisfy the selfish whims and desires of two people who could not possibly be natural parents, either by dint of sexual orientation or, in normal male-female reproduction, age.  It is a sad and immoral state of afairs; and to try to justify the situation, as many have been doing, by stating that because some heterosexuals are bad parents then this is a good thing is misleading and just plain silly.

Merry Christmas!

To You Is Born This Day in the City of David a Saviour

I was very wary of doing a ‘Christmas Blog Post’, mainly because I’ve been to Mass, I’ve watched some rubbish Christmas TV, I’ve had a beer or two, we’ve carefully arranged all the presents under the tree and all is ready for an already very excited Caitie to wake up in the morning to that particular kind of excitement that only children can experience on Christmas Day morning and I feel that what I write will probably only end up being trite or sentimental or just plain boring. 

All I will say therefore and notwithstanding what I’ve just written is that, as you’ve probably guessed, I didn’t manage to get a Just A Catholic Dad episode recorded and prepped and published in time for Christmas, so I’m sorry and will try to do better over the following week or two!  I did record something, but realised that by spending the time attached to my PC editing it and preparing it, I wasn’t actually going to be spending the time leading up to Christmas with the two people about whom the podcast is actually about.  So, somewhat reluctantly I admit, I decided to give it a miss, but I will get back in the saddle as soon as I can! I miss podcasting when I don’t do it – I think that it’s cathartic!

May I wish all of you – especially the wonderful people who download Just A Catholic Dad, those who have befriended me on Twitter and Facebook, and especially to those great people who have taken the time and effort to write to or contact me – a very Happy and Holy Christmas.  God Bless, Sean.

60 Second Saint – Go On, Go On, Go On…!

Hi Everybody!  Hope that your Advent is leading very nicely through Office Parties and into Christmas!  Pat Denny wisely pointed out that if I wanted people to have a go at writing or recording a 60 Second Saint, a list of those saints already covered was probably a good idea!  So, so far, we’ve had….

St Seraphia, St Rosalia, St Laurence Justinian, St Wilfrida of Wilton, St Hubert, St Albert Magnus, St John of The Cross, St John of Damascus and St Lucy.  Remember – 230 words is about a minute at Sean Warp Factor 10 reading speed!  So, either send me a ‘script’ or, even better, an MP3!  Don’t worry about the music or if it’s a little over or under 60 seconds – I can use the magic of modern computery wizardness to fix that!

I’m going to try to record a Just A Catholic Dad tomorrow morning, but time is against me, so wish me luck!

God Bless

Sean

Ice Station Pitton – Diary Entry 2

Hammering two nails into the wall above the archway leading from the kitchen into the hallway and hanging an old blanket from them to keep the heat in has been very succesful in retaining heat in kitchen; ice in shower room a minor problem!  Have suggested returning to work early , but there was an insinuation that I was a ‘splitter’.  Heating and hot water now down to two hours a day with open fire and immersion heater taking the slack.  Five days supply of logs left.  Ancient slo-cooker dragged out from loft and prepared for action.  Roadkill logs have already paid the ultimate sacrifice.  One inch of oil used in 5 days: Doing the math – outlook not good.

Ice Station Pitton – Diary Entry 1

Snow on the ground, domestic oil running out and no delivery possible ’til 7 Jan, logs not delivered, heating rationed, hot water not hot, Aga on the verge of running out of heat, cold to the bone. Bah Humbug!