{"id":1296,"date":"2011-04-15T20:59:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T01:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.austincnm.com\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2011-04-15T20:59:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T01:59:38","slug":"two-guys-a-girl-and-a-catholic-podcast-episode-9-attack-of-the-spring-spheres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/two-guys-a-girl-and-a-catholic-podcast-episode-9-attack-of-the-spring-spheres\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Guys, a Girl and a Catholic Podcast Episode 9: Attack of The Spring Spheres"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ukrainian Easter eggs\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/c3\/Ukrainskie_pisanki.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"356\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[powerpress]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Segment #1 &#8211; Current Events &#8211; Jason<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Japan nuclear disaster tops scale\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2011\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/04\/12\/japan.nuclear.reactors\/?hpt=T1\">http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2011\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/04\/12\/japan.nuclear.reactors\/?hpt=T1<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Texas House OKs 85-mph speed limit, would be nation&#8217;s highest\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/04\/07\/us-texas-speed-limit-idUSTRE7366L720110407\">http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/04\/07\/us-texas-speed-limit-idUSTRE7366L720110407<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Segment #2 &#8211; Church News &#8211; Cristina<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bishop Joe Vasquez&#8217;s decision this week to move a public meeting about immigration from Cristo Rey Church\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/local\/bishops-decision-to-move-meeting-because-of-speakers-1384471.html?printArticle=y\">http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/local\/bishops-decision-to-move-meeting-because-of-speakers-1384471.html?printArticle=y<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Vatican will Host First-Ever Blogging Conference, May 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe aim of the meeting is to allow for a dialogue between bloggers and Church<\/p>\n<p>representatives, to listen to the experiences of those who are actively involved in this arena,<\/p>\n<p>and to achieve a greater understanding of the needs of that community,\u201d the Pontifical<\/p>\n<p>Councils for Culture and for Social Communications said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/blogging\/article\/vatican-to-host-first-ever-blogging\/\">http:\/\/technorati.com\/blogging\/article\/vatican-to-host-first-ever-blogging\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:blogmeet@pccs.it\">blogmeet@pccs.it<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Pope endorses the YOUCAT (Youth Catechism)\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.romereports.com\/palio\/The-Vatican-will-review-and-promote-YOUCAT-the-catechism-for-youth-english-3880.html\">http:\/\/www.romereports.com\/palio\/The-Vatican-will-review-and-promote-YOUCAT-the-catechism-for-youth-english-3880.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Palm Sunday this Sunday, April 17<\/li>\n<li>Holy Week- Check your parish bulletin and website for Mass times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Segment #3 &#8211; Wildcard \u2013 Chris<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cristina, with Holy week just beginning, we\u2019ve finally reached the culmination of this Lenten season.\u00a0 While we all love Easter it seems like there are some people who get really \u201cin\u201d to Easter and others who get really \u201cin\u201d to Christmas.\u00a0 So&#8230; which is it for you, Easter or Christmas?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In his general audience on April 13, Pope Benedict XVI wrapped up his series of talks on the Saints and Doctors of the Church said, \u201cmost people, aware of their limits and weaknesses, think it wouldn\u2019t be possible to be a saint.\u201d\u00a0 He called us to look, not only to the canonized Saints, but also those living out the faith in our daily lives and performing heroics acts of faith in the everyday.\u00a0 Jason, what Saints have had a particular impact on your journey of faith?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is from Brian Burch over at CatholicVote.org&#8230; A Seattle 3rd grade class will be treated to an Easter Egg hunt as an award for a week long service project.\u00a0 The thing is&#8230; the school administration wouldn\u2019t let them be called Easter eggs and insisted instead that they be called \u201cSpring Spheres.\u201d\u00a0 Cristina, what is most absurd about this story&#8230; the rampant political correctness, or the fact that the school administration incorrectly identified egg-shapes (which are called ovoids in geometric terms) as spheres?<\/li>\n<li>In the last segment, Cristina told us about the first annual blogger conference hosted by the Vatican&#8230; Jason, true or false, if you got an invitation, you would sell almost everything you own on Craigslist to get to Rome for the conference?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Feedback Info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong>(512) 522-7025<\/p>\n<p>feedback@austincnm.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincnm.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.austincnm.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone\u2019s Twitter handles<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/jdzondo\">www.twitter.com\/jdzondo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/cwillistonvi\">www.twitter.com\/cwillistonvi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/cristina120\">www.twitter.com\/cristina120<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[powerpress] Segment #1 &#8211; Current Events &#8211; Jason Japan nuclear disaster tops scale <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2011\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/04\/12\/japan.nuclear.reactors\/?hpt=T1\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2011\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/04\/12\/japan.nuclear.reactors\/?hpt=T1<\/a> Texas House OKs 85-mph speed limit, would be nation&#8217;s highest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/04\/07\/us-texas-speed-limit-idUSTRE7366L720110407\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/04\/07\/us-texas-speed-limit-idUSTRE7366L720110407<\/a> Segment #2 &#8211; Church News &#8211; Cristina Bishop Joe Vasquez&#8217;s decision this week to move a public meeting about immigration from Cristo Rey Church <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/local\/bishops-decision-to-move-meeting-because-of-speakers-1384471.html?printArticle=y\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/local\/bishops-decision-to-move-meeting-because-of-speakers-1384471.html?printArticle=y<\/a> Vatican will Host First-Ever Blogging&#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/two-guys-a-girl-and-a-catholic-podcast-episode-9-attack-of-the-spring-spheres\/\">[Read&nbsp;More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-2guysagirl","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1668,"url":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/two-guys-a-girl-and-a-catholic-podcast-episode-12-looks-like-that-rain-dance-worked\/","url_meta":{"origin":1296,"position":0},"title":"Two Guys, a Girl and a Catholic Podcast Episode 12: Looks Like That Rain Dance Worked","author":"Jason Elizondo","date":"May 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"[powerpress] Feedback: Segment #1 - Current Events - Record Rain in Central Texas. http:\/\/www.kxan.com\/dpp\/weather\/its-raining-its-pou ring Novena to St. Isidore the Farmer for more rain. 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