Oddwalk Ministries

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YSP 2007

Youth Sing Praise 2007 is off and running, preparing for the performance of “Joseph” on June 23.  Please pray for all our participants and staff, one of whom is Orin, as assistant music director.  Shannon has also been involved in the week, in the past, as a youth minister. You can find more info on…

pOddcast – Salve Regina

As May is traditionally the month of Mary, on the pOddcast, we’ve added a recording of Orin a number of years ago singing the Gregorian Chant “Salve Regina” known to most folks in English as the prayer “Hail Holy Queen.” Orin had recorded this for an in-house Shrine video on the life of St. Eugene…

Happy Birthday Mike!

Hey! It’s Mike Patin’s Birthday today! We believe (though we could be wrong) that he turns 29 today. (That’s him, between Shrine-type friends Donna and Kate.) Mike is one of the nicest people around, a great speaker, a wealth of knowledge on youth ministry and the human condition in general. His website does have a…

Holy Week from a Mother’s View

Pictured on the left is a friend of Oddwalk’s, Nanette Munie Norrenberns. She helped us with last year’s CD “Let Us Go, Rejoicing” and the CD release concert following. Last night, some 500 people gathered at the Shrine to pray the biblical stations of the cross given to the Church by Pope John Paul II…

Way Back When

Killing a few minutes before dinner, digging through some old photos at the Shrine, Orin found this bit of archival material: Orin and his wife (then girlfriend) Erin at a Shrine World Youth Day Anyone care to guess the year?