Where can Catholic teens go to spread the Good News of our Catholic faith? Live WTL Ministries is the place where Catholic teens can learn about their faith, spread the good news of Jesus Christ, and live out Christ’s teachings.
Live WTL Ministries is a ministry for Catholic kids and teens and is founded by Avery Grant. According to its mission statement:
“Live WTL was founded for Catholic teens to spread the good news of Christ Jesus the Savior, and to teach kids and teens their faith so that they may be able to spread the good news of Christ Jesus the Savior. The mission is truly to live out John 14:6 by living out Jesus Christ’s teachings and knowing that He alone is the way, truth, and life!”
Avery and the Live WTL Ministries team of young Catholics are doing an excellent job in spreading the Good News of our Catholic faith for other kids and teens. For more information, about Live WTL Ministries, click here to visit their website. Avery is also the host of the Live Out Loud Podcast. This podcast is geared towards Catholic teens. On the podcast, Avery discusses different aspects of our faith and talks about anything and everything from Saints to purity and Catholic apologetics.
On the most recent episode of the Live Out Loud podcast, Avery discusses praying, praying, and…. more Praying! Avery begins the show with talking about prayer in general and then transitions into how to pray. Then she talks about the not-sure-popular (at least for many teens) way of praying: the Rosary. Click the player below to listen to the latest episode of the Live Out Loud podcast and be inspired to pray!
How can we help more Catholic teens to grow in their faith journey and spread the Good News of Jesus Christ? Share your thoughts in the comments.
This month’s server statistics show that Catholic media organization SQPN.com has served more than 11 million podcast episodes to listeners around the world.
Shows that look at popular movies, books or videogames from a Catholic perspective generated more than 3 million downloads.
Listeners downloaded another 4 million podcast episodes on topics like prayer, Mass readings and spirituality. In addition, Fr. Roderick’s weekly shows were downloaded more than 4.2 million times.
SQPN.com, the Star Quest Production Network, is a Catholic non profit organization that specializes in new media evangelization and new media education. It was founded in 2006 by Dutch priest Fr. Roderick Vonhögen and cofounders Greg and Jennifer Willits from RosaryArmy.com and The Catholic Channel on Sirius XM.
SQPN is fully funded by donations from its listeners. Click here to help.
You can also sponsor a podcast episode to support SQPN’s mission. Click here for more information!
Congrats Fr. Roderick and SQPN crew!u00a0 This makes you the “new evangelization Matrix” of the W.W.W.!!u00a0 All the best and continued success!u00a0 Et cum spiritu tuo!
Roswell, GA, October 18, 2011: The Star Quest Production Network (SQPN) is pleased to announce the location and dates for the 5th Annual Catholic New Media Conference. The 5th Catholic New Media Conference will be held in Dallas/Fort Worth, at the Arlington Convention Center. The dates for the conference are August 29-31, 2012.
The Catholic New Media Conference is a festive, educational, and international conference focused on evangelization and building community through the use of new media. This event is designed to connect, guide and inform Catholic communicators as a response to the Church’s call for new evangelization.
All interested in Catholic communication, new media, and social media are invited, including young adults (18+), ministry leaders, and priests and religious, to whom Pope Benedict appealed in his 2010 World Communications Day message, to “become an ever more pastoral presence on the web.”
PROGRAM & REGISTRATION
Details of the conference program and registration information will be announced at a later date. The latest information will also be available at the CNMC website, http://cnmc.sqpn.com
LOCATION
Situated in the heart of the Entertainment District, the Arlington Convention Center is nestled among Rangers Ballpark in Arlington (home of the Texas Rangers), Cowboys Stadium (home of the Dallas Cowboys), Six Flags Over Texas, Six Flags Hurricane Harbor (America’s largest water park), and Arlington’s finest hotels and restaurants.
For added convenience, the Arlington Convention Center is midway between Dallas and Fort Worth, and only 15 minutes south of the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
In this episode, Lisa brings us up to date on the goings on in her life, family, and speaking engagements. This fall seems to be the grand tour of the midwest, and she’s loving it and the opportunity to meet new people and catch up with old friends.
Listen to this very special edition where Lisa interviews Katie Hayak, one of the stars of the new film, The Mighty Macs, and Theresa Grentz,one of the original players on the Immaculata team.
Some new actors in Peter Jackson’s upcoming Hobbit movies must learn Elvish for their roles. Like Evangeline Lilly, one of the stars of the TV series ‘Lost’. Did she succeed? And three enthusiastic Tolkien fans want to travel to New Zealand to try to get a part in the movies. All that and more in this week’s episode of ‘Secrets of The Hobbit’.
How do flight attendants handle misbehavior of passengers? What do pilots eat during a flight? How does the TV version of Paris compare to the real city? Do the French really put green plants on the Church’s communion rails?
In the latest episode of ‘Secrets of Pan Am’, airline pilot captain Jeff and frequent flyer Fr. Roderick are joined by Marsha, an experienced flight attendant. Together they answer your questions and analyze the Pan Am TV episode “We’ll Always Have Paris”.
On Thursday morning, October 6 2011, Steve Jobs died at the age of 56. Many of us use the software and hardware that he brought us to reach out and share our Catholic faith with the world. Without Steve Jobs, I would have never posted that first podcast from the Vatican. SQPN would probably have not existed..
We pray for the repose of his soul, and for the family he leaves behind. May he rest in peace.
Fr. Roderick
Here are some thoughts by Steve Jobs himself about life and death, spoken at Stanford university, not long after he had been diagnosed with cancer:
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.
This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960′s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
(Full text of his Stanford address can be found here)
Where can Catholic teens go to spread the Good News of our Catholic faith? Live WTL Ministries is the place where Catholic teens can learn about their faith, spread the good news of Jesus Christ, and live out Christ’s teachings.
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DanH1225 12:33 am on October 26, 2011 Permalink |
Congrats Fr. Roderick and SQPN crew!u00a0 This makes you the “new evangelization Matrix” of the W.W.W.!!u00a0 All the best and continued success!u00a0 Et cum spiritu tuo!
John Clem 7:33 pm on October 25, 2011 Permalink |
Congrats to Father Roderick and all the SQPN podcasters–WOW 11 million.u00a0 God Bless!!!