Guest Lector Next Week

Joel Anderson of A Klingon Word From The Word will be our reader for the week of October 1st through the 7th. You'll enjoy Joel's proclamation of the Word (as I did while preparing the files). Thanks Joel!

Many Thanks

This is a simple post of gratitude. It's been sort of a rough September so far, and I'm feeling indebted to lots of folks.

Thanks to Father Kevin, for creating your excellent calendars, and for sharing them (and most of all, for being the best friend on the face of the planet).

Thanks to Joel Anderson of the A Klingon Word from the Word and Programming in Tongues Podcasts for putting together the Scripture reference query site, and to Bob Rogers for the Greasemonkey script. You guys rock!

Thanks to everyone who has been praying for us, and to those who sent emails of encouragement. You've lifted my spirits more than I can express.

Thanks to my pals at DWMics. You're walking definitions of "faith in action."

Lastly, and especially, thanks to Claudia who loves me "in spite of."

Daily Readings For Your Radio Station

Here's the text of an email I've been sending to some of the Catholic Radio Stations and Networks I know of. Since we're using the Douay-Rheims version (which is in the Public Domain) I can continue to distribute the Podcast under a Creative Commons License, which allows others to use the material, free-of-charge.

If you know of a station which might be interested, please feel free to point them to this Weblog, or if you'd like you can get in touch with me by email and I'll contact them.

Let's get this program out to whoever wants it!

I've been producing an Internet Podcast of the Daily Catholic Scripture Readings since February of this year. The program is called "Verbum Domini" and you can learn more about it and hear some samples at the following URLs.

Webpage:
http://homepage.mac.com/noebie/lectionary/verbum2.htm

Podcast Feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/VerbumDomini

I'm emailing to offer the audio files of each day's Readings for broadcast by your station, free-of-charge as a service to the community. You may already include a broadcast of the Daily Mass in your schedule, which of course includes the Readings as well. Many of my listeners (unfortunately) find it difficult to commit the time each day to Mass, and these short presentations of the Readings (usually ranging from 2:30 to 6 minutes) seem to be of benefit to them.

If you have an interest, please let me know and I'll provide instructions on how to download the MP3 audio files for each day. Let me assure you, once again, that I offer these free-of-charge and with no obligation on your part. Simply use them as you wish. My only desire is to encourage people to spend at least a little time with the Scriptures each day, and since I'm putting forth the effort to produce these anyway, they might as well get some use beyond the Podcast.

I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.

Best Wishes,

Brian Noe

Permission Request Withdrawn

Here's the text of an email I sent to the USCCB/CCD Permissions Office this afternoon. I'm considering the matter closed.

Folks:

I've spent much time in prayer over the past few days and had
something of an epiphany this morning. To be brief, I no longer wish
to use the NAB text for the Podcast in any event. I felt it best to
let you know immediately, so that you won't spend any more of your
time and resources in consideration of the matter.

I'll make sure that listeners know that this was my choice.

I trust that this resolves the issue to your satisfaction, and again
apologize for any infringement that might have occurred.

Although I suspect that this offer won't be of interest to you, I
would still be very happy for you to link to my Website or to the
Podcast as a resource for others. For the time-being at least, I'll be
using the Douay-Rheims.

http://verbumdomini.com

http://feeds.feedburner.com/VerbumDomini

Thank you once again for all of your efforts, and please let me know
if I can ever be of assistance to you in any way.

Brian Noe