To celebrate, load up your iPod with your favorite Holy Spirit songs and go light the world on fire!

TOP HOLY SPIRIT SONGS
Press Release:
Top Ten Holy Spirit Songs (topcatholicsongs.com)
5-9-08

For Immediate Release

Milford, CT - Top Catholic Songs formally announced today the voting results for the Top Ten Holy Spirit Songs from Catholic Artists, just in time for Pentecost Sunday. “Come Holy Spirit”, written and performed by Mark Mallett for his rosary project “Let the Lord Know” was voted #1 song. Lynn Geyer’s “SpiritSong” comes in second, while the single, “The Dream” places Stinging Rain at #3.

Susan Bailey and Celeste Zepponi have original songs named “Come Holy Spirit”, and both landed at the #4 and #5 positions, respectively. George Lower’s “Shine Out” while ServantSongs’ “Glory Be” fill out the #6 and #7 positions, respectively. Annie Karto places with “Sanctify” at #8. Nancy Krebs ranks #9 with her “Gift of God”, and the list ends with Mel Kennedy’s bilingual “Renew the Face of the
Earth”.

The purpose of this Top Ten list was to honor Catholic artists for their musical and technical achievements in providing Catholics with quality recorded music which is entertaining, edifying, and educational.

According to a poll of the Top Catholic Songs online community, these 10 songs represent the best recorded songs about the Holy Spirit by Catholic musicians:

1. Come Holy Spirit / Mark Mallett
2. SpiritSong / Lynn Geyer
3. The Dream / Stinging Rain
4. Come Holy Spirit / Susan Bailey
5. Come Holy Spirit / Celeste Zepponi
6. Shine Out / George Lower
7. Glory Be / ServantSong
8. Sanctify / Annie Karto
9. Gift of God / Nancy Krebs
10. Renew the Face of the Earth / Mel Kennedy

To hear and download the Top Ten Holy Spirit Songs by Catholic Artists, and other Top Ten lists, go to:

http://www.topcatholicsongs.com/HolySpirit/List

TopCatholicSongs.com is an online community where Catholics can find music from Catholic artists organized in the popular “Top Ten” style. The lists are dynamically connected to iTunes–through which any
seeker of Catholic music can listen to and download songs, burn CD’s, and discover new artists.

Go to http://www.TopCatholicSongs.com for more information.

Boy, does time fly. It’s been weeks since I wrote a post, and months since I did a Catholic PraiseCast podcast. I’ve been working overtime, but it’s all good. The PraiseCast podcast has a large audience, and they love to pray along with the show. While at Franciscan University, Fr. Bill Kessler a.k.a. The TechonPriest told me that the PraiseCast helped him during his 2:00am time in Adoration. That’s the best complement I could get.

The PraiseCast is actually the harder show to produce for me. Trying to get a show that flows takes a bit more of the precious little gray matter I have left to prepare, select music and host. But the work is worth it if it helps the listeners.

With all that rambling, I’m on the lookout for some new great Catholic praise and worship. So much today is just covers of popular non-denominational tunes. What is needed is good, biblically sound Catholic praise. Two new examples of that have come from Jon Niven and Matt Maher, who both just released albums in the last month. But I guess I’m greedy and I’m looking for more. (Do I need to confess that if I’m greedy for Catholic music?)

If you know of a Catholic band with some high quality Catholic P&W music recorded, tell them to join the CatholicJukebox.com family.

Those of us who have ministries where we travel, perform, speak, or sing spend most of our time talking to people. It’s easy for us to forget that we need to talk with people as well.

Some of us maintain our best friendships inside ministry circles. We need to put a little more time into talking to our friends outside of ministry. Invite them out for coffee. Make it a regular event.

Others of us maintain the majority of our friendships outside ministry circles. Spend some time meeting and chatting with others in ministry. They like coffee (or tea) too!

In each case it helps to maintain relationships with people who share common interests, but push the limits a little bit to provide perspective. Interesting and consistent conversation will feed all parties.

Who can you connect (or reconnect) with today? Call (email, im, have-your-people-call-their-people) now and schedule a meet-up!