Last Friday night, Oddwalk served as number callers and emcees at our friend Katie’s bingo fundraiser extravaganza, Support Katie’s Habit. Katie, you may recall, needs to raise about $17,000 before she can enter a religious order, the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, this fall – the order is not able to take on…
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Oddwalk in the News
Here’s the article from a few weeks ago about our music being included in GIA’s newest hymnal, Cross Generation. Thanks to Jay Nies for the great writing. We’ve also uploaded a pdf of the article to our media & promotion page. Read it if you dare!
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Support Katie’s Habit!
Our dear friend, AI classmate, and neighbor Katie is joining a religious order this fall – yay religious life! To do so, however, she must first pay off all her debt and living expenses for her first year with the order. Read the flyer on the left – or visit her “Support Katie’s Habit” blog…
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End of February Catchup
Oddwalk has had a pretty good month! The first of two retreats at Immaculate Conception, Dardenne MO, The Confirmation Spectacular at the Shrine (where we got to see our good friend Mike Patin, pictured left), and a Mardi Gras concert at St. Pat’s in Rolla MO (more on that in a second). On top of…
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I did it!
Well, that image of St. Paul just below, ready to go grocery shopping, was featured on lolsaints.com yesterday! The webmaster had emailed me too, saying the others Orin submitted were put in the queue to go up over the next few weeks – we’ll let you know when they do! PS – My user name…
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Made Again
Hey everyone – a tenor in Orin’s choir at the Shrine, Alan Averso recently had his first novel published by publishamerica.com! It’s called “Made Again” – “a story about faith, perseverance, determination, and will. It is a story about love, music, travel, family, and friends. It is a story about change, loss, and forced separation.”…
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It’s Here! It’s Here! “Cross Generation”
GIA’s newest hymnal, “Crossgeneration” exists! I (Orin) have held a copy in my own hands, and Shannon will too in a couple of hours when he and Erin arrive in Cleveland for the afore-mentioned NCCYM. We are honored to have 11 pieces (out of around 250) in it, and are looking forward to showing…
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Butteryfly Splints
Associated Press LAKE LUZERNE, N.Y. — A monarch butterfly has a chance at completing its species’ famed migration to central Mexico, thanks to some tiny cardboard splints, a bit of contact cement and a trucker from Alabama. The insect’s broken wing was painstakingly splinted by an upstate New York couple who then helped it hitch a…