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| Topic Started: Friday, 24. April 2009, 19:39 (273 Views) | |
| Mairtin | Friday, 24. April 2009, 19:39 Post #1 |
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Edit I've deleted out this message because it gave instructions how to join the Prayer Room in a location that is no longer used. The Online Prayer now uses independent software which gives complete control over the room rather than being subject to a third party; it also means that there is no advertising or risk of any other third party material that would not be suitable for a Prayer Room operating within a Catholic ethos. Step by step instructions on how to download the software (which is free), install it and connect to the Prayer Room can be found here. Mairtin Edited by Mairtin, Thursday, 25. June 2009, 21:40.
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| Mairtin | Friday, 24. April 2009, 20:39 Post #2 |
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I've left the room. Did anybody try to join? I seem to be having an issue with the room staying active. |
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| SeanJ | Friday, 24. April 2009, 20:46 Post #3 |
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Mairtin, I have been out all day. Will be out most of tomorrow as well, but will try it over the weekend. Sean |
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| Mairtin | Friday, 24. April 2009, 20:53 Post #4 |
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Thanks, Sean, check here for times - you can't get into the room if I'm not there.
Edited by Mairtin, Friday, 24. April 2009, 20:53.
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| Mairtin | Friday, 24. April 2009, 20:59 Post #5 |
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Edit No longer relevant Mairtin Edited by Mairtin, Thursday, 25. June 2009, 21:41.
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| Rose of York | Saturday, 25. April 2009, 14:36 Post #6 |
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Online, televised Rosary is transmitted regularly, from a church in Ireland. It is led by a man I THINK is the priest, standing in the pulpit. http://www.churchservices.tv/live/Augustinians/ I'll be back later with more details, I am logging off to join in the Rosary with a congregation I can see. |
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| Rose of York | Saturday, 25. April 2009, 15:13 Post #7 |
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I tuned in to the online Rosary. There are different advantages between that and the one proposed by Mairtin. Mairtin's will be at a time arranged to suit the convenience of his initial group (members of Catholic Cyberforum), they know each other, they are friends, meeting together for prayer. That is great, especially for people who cannot get to a church to pray with their fellow parishioners. The one I have just seen is from a church, at first I thought "that is good" but; The Rosary was just before Mass. The cameras showed half a dozen pews at the front, with plenty of people in them, all praying the rosary. Mass attenders were arriving, crossing in front of the pews, genuflecting or bowing, no complaint about what they were doing, they did right but it was a distraction. |
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| Derekap | Saturday, 25. April 2009, 15:18 Post #8 |
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Perhaps there is an entrance at the front of the nave - that is near the Sanctuary. |
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| Rose of York | Saturday, 25. April 2009, 15:26 Post #9 |
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Derek my point is, the one proposed by Mairtin would have NO distractions. Different people will have different wants. Some want to SEE a church, with the people praying. My own taste would be sound only. |
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| Derekap | Saturday, 25. April 2009, 15:39 Post #10 |
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There are times, particularly Holy Mass, when I prefer to be present with a congregation, however large or small and that goes for presentation on the internet or TV (not just Radio). There other times I like to pray alone, at home, admiring scenery or perhaps even watching the world go by in or on the forecourt of a café whilst drinking my Capucinno.
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| Mairtin | Saturday, 25. April 2009, 16:44 Post #11 |
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The other difference will be that people can participate by leading on individual decades. Also, people will be able to ask for specific intentions to be prayed for. |
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| Alan | Monday, 27. April 2009, 14:34 Post #12 |
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Thank you for the link to the Irish Churches. St Augustine's Church in Cork is where my father went to daily Mass before going to his office. At that time he worked Monday to Saturday and there would be several hundred people at the Mass. Most of the people at that Mass were men on their way to work. The interesting thing is that most of those attending would not receive Commuion because of the rules of fasting at the time. (From Midnight). Then mother and Grandmother would go to a later morning Mass. Once again they would not receive Communion. Mount St Alphonsus in Limerick is where my father in law went to daily Mass before work. My mother in law then went to a later Mass. I was quite taken aback by the number of people who attended the evening Mass last monday. It would appear that the tradition of daily Mass attendance is truly alive in Ireland. Edited by Alan, Monday, 27. April 2009, 15:08.
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God Bless all who visit this forum, Alan. Add Catholic CyberForum to your favourites | |
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| Alan | Monday, 27. April 2009, 15:10 Post #13 |
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I do hope to visit your new initiative during this week. |
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God Bless all who visit this forum, Alan. Add Catholic CyberForum to your favourites | |
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| Mairtin | Wednesday, 13. May 2009, 15:44 Post #14 |
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As you may have read here, over the last few weeks, I have been doing some work on a couple of ideas that I have been thinking about for a while about providing an online place for prayer. The first part of my idea was just a place for people on the Net to stop and pray or reflect for a while; that basic idea is not really much different from sacredspace.ie which others have rightly praised here except that I don’t like the way in which that and other sites seem to shy away from explicitly religious images, using pictures of flowers and landscapes instead. My site will use clearly religious images and, whilst welcoming those of any faith and no faith, will have a distinctly but unapologetically Catholic flavour to it. The second aspect, the one that I think makes the site really distinctive, is that it would be a portal to online prayer using chat rooms, initially Lectio Divina and the Rosary. The Website The basic website is now available at http://www.roomtopray.net The Home Page is basically a place to play and reflect, the Announcements page gives details of upcoming prayer sessions and the About page outlines what I hope to achieve by the site. The Online Rosary As you will see on the Announcements page page, the first session of the Online Rosary will take place on Friday night, 15th May at 9:15 p.m., I’m really delighted to have been able to achieve this during Our Lady’s month of May. The key difference between this and other forms of online Rosary is that you take part in it in “real time”, hopefully along with others you know from this and other forums. It takes place in an audio chat room, instructions on how to access it can be found on the Room To Pray website along with some general advice for those new to chat rooms. I strongly recommend that you do the signing up to the chat room over the next day or so rather than waiting until the last minute on Friday. I will be in the chat room off and on between now and then and will be there for sure from 9:00 p.m. on Friday to help people get set up. Although you will need a microphone if you would like to directly lead any decades in the Rosary, you can join without one by just listening in; think of the online Rosary as being like a radio talk show and people with microphones are listeners phoning in; there is also the facility to “text in” any special intentions you would like to be included or any other messages. The Rosary will normally take no more than 15 to 20 minutes but this first one will probably take a little longer - 30 minutes at the very most - to get people familiar with the format so I would encourage as many people as possible to take part, even if only to listen in to it. If you maybe haven’t prayed the Rosary for a while, please do give it a try. I have to admit that I personally had abandoned it for a long time but have fairly recently rediscovered its beauty - that’s a subject for another day or post, however. Edited by Mairtin, Thursday, 25. June 2009, 21:44.
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| pat | Wednesday, 13. May 2009, 22:58 Post #15 |
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Thank you, Mairtin, for doing this. I have signed up and hope to be able to get near the computer for the Rosary on Friday. (I usually don't get a look in till after 11!) I will pray for the success of this new service. |
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