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100 Catholic Post and Counting
Feb 18th
Jesus I trust in You
Today marks the 100th post of CatholicTools.com. A day of celebration and thanksgiving.
Thank you to everyone for comments, sharing articles, emails, and prayers. God Bless you.
In the Beginning
I have received many emails asking, “How did you start Catholic Tools?” It kinda grew organically as a simple test. I was building www.signsofcontradiction.com and in the process of refreshing my IT skills I began reading articles on Search Engine Optimization, blogging, and the Internet.
So I thought I would test some of these practices out myself. I just committed to writing short articles on practices, concepts, and ideas, people could use to spread the Catholic faith. I tried to have an article published everyday.
After reading what Pope Benedict XVI wrote on blogging, I took it as a sign to continue to write articles and share practices.
Without any advertising or links from a popular site Catholic Tools has generated over 5,000 views in its short existence. Just by publishing post people have found the site through Google and other search engines.
I have changed up the design, trying to make it better and more readable. I hope to share the design with anyone who wants it for their own site (probably around post 150).
Most Popular Post
It’s interesting to see what have become the most popular post.
- How to Lead Worship for Eucharistic Adoration
- Father Bing on Exorcism and Deliverance Prayer
- Binding, Rebuking, and Commanding Evil Spirits
- How to End Bad Liturgical Music
- Prayer of Protection for Spiritual Warfare
Most Popular Search Term
- eucharistic adoration for teens
- dos and don’ts of youth liturgy
- fr bing catholic priest
- catholic tools
- pope benedict priest technology internet
First Three Post
As Catholics we have a rich history. Here is CatholicTool’s not so rich history.
- 12 principles to follow to become like the 12 apostles
- Essential Prayers to Bless Sacramentals
- Free September Youth Ministry Lesson
Review of Results
After receiving views from around the world on many different topics, it seems that adoration, exorcism, deliverance prayers, youth groups, and technology are what people are looking for.
I never would have guessed people are searching around the internet for information about deliverance from evil spirits.
I kinda thought my more popular post would be about vocations to the priesthood, but they have not really caught on.
Future of Catholic Tools
I hope in the next 100 Catholic post to continue writing about effective evanglization strategies but to focus on 3 major topics.
- Young Adult Ministry
- Technology and Evangelization
- Traditional Catholic Prayers
Share Catholic Tools
Please share CatholicTools.com with one person who you might know who would benefit from it’s resources. Also, feel free to print off articles and use them in your parish meetings as your ideas, or to help you run a Catholic youth meeting.
Comment
If you have a question or a suggestions or if you just dislike an article, please add a comment under the article. It would be great to hear from you.
New Logo
Catholic Tools
You have seen the “priest” logo for some weeks now, but I am introducing another one. I am pleased to welcome “Sister” to join the Catholic Tools promotional staff. You can never say no to a sister.
God Bless and Praise be Jesus Christ.
Thank You,
Jason Buck
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Feb 7th
Catholic Church
Catholic priest are often busy, busy, and busy. Well, here are 10 online ‘free’ tools that will help them organize, share the faith, and work more efficiently. These tools are common, but probably underutilized by the Church.
8 Incredibly Free Internet Tools for Priest
- Google Shared Calendar – Works with multiple email programs and can be accessed anywhere
- Do It Yourself Network – Seriously, Sometimes you have to save money and get it down right.
- Zoho Customer Relationship Manger – Track communion calls, wedding appointments. Be Creative.
- Twitter – ‘Mass is at 10am… See you There!” Sacred of Social Networking? Read Social Networking.
- Spirit Daily – Read between the lines and get the spiritual news.
- Lifehacker – Tips and tricks on Technology
- Google Gmail – Everyone needs a free email account (plus origination is awesome)
- Wordpress Blog – The Pope suggested blogging
- Google RSS Reader – Fast and easy way to stay in contact with your favorite web sites. Also by email
- Ning – Create your own parish social network.
Don’t use all of them, but why not try one?
Have a suggestion? Please share it.
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Jan 31st
Catholic Tools by Jason Buck has re-branded itself as www.CatholicTools.com with the hopes of making more Catholic content available.
www.jasonbuck.org changed to www.catholictools.com
I hope to provide more authors (so it’s not all about me). Please update your browsers, email me with any problems, and say a prayer that the transfer of domain names works!
How Can You Help
Please email your friends with CatholicTools.com articles they would be interested in.
Some of my past articles
- The Key to the Vocation Crisis
- Free Youth Ministry Plans
- The Fatima Promise Revisted
- Deliverance Prayers and Spiritual Warfare
- How to Attract Youth to Youth Group
- Great Catholic Video Teaching Resources
- Catholic Music for Adoration and Mass - Franciscan University Style
What Does CatholicTools.com Publish?
Jesus
CatholicTools.com is committed to publishing easy Catholic resources to effectively and efficiently proclaiming the Gospel. Catholic Tools for priest, religious, laity…For those who want to evangelize.
My goal is to publish one Catholic Tip each day on prayer, evangelization, youth and young adult ministry, and Catholic resources.
If you have a tip or suggestions, let me know!
God Bless,
Jason Buck
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Jan 23rd
The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI released a statement today calling priest to make use of the internet and current media tools to reach people with the message of Jesus Christ.
The great German Shepherd of the Church is calling priest to use the technology of the day to spread the Gospel. What impact will this have on a seminary or priest who may struggle to adapt and learn emerging technologies? It should have none because if they are open to the Holy Spirit, the Spirit will provide.
Priests are thus challenged to proclaim the Gospel by employing the latest generation of audiovisual resources (images, videos, animated features, blogs, websites) which, alongside traditional means, can open up broad new vistas for dialogue, evangelization and catechesis.
Who better than a priest, as a man of God, can develop and put into practice, by his competence in current digital technology, a pastoral outreach capable of making God concretely present in today’s world and presenting the religious wisdom of the past as a treasure which can inspire our efforts to live in the present with dignity while building a better future?
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS
POPE BENEDICT XVI
FOR THE 44th WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY
Example
Rev Dan Good is a ‘good’ example of a young man who is using technology to spread the Gospel. This Catholic seminarian uploads beautiful pictures on Flickr to share the witness.
If you are searching for Catholic photos of Churches, seminarians, or life, stop by and visit Rev Dan Good’s Flickr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/theologicalclowning/
Looking for some ideas for Mass, Christmas Concert, or a liturgical event? Check out these Catholic photos.
Have a comment, question, or suggestions? Please Share it!
Beautiful
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Merry Christmas
Dec 27th
God’s love was revealed in our midst in this way: he sent his only Son to the world that we might have life through him.
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