Friars of the Immaculate
[Editor's note: Do you have any examples of other consecrated, ordained, or lay groups leveraging the power of their websites, YouTube channels, etc. to great effect? Please share them, and write as much as you can about them!]
One of the interesting orders I've run across is the Friars of the Immaculate. They did a live web broadcast from the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in May on a Marian Co-redemptorix conference (which I delightfully assisted). Here is the video of one of the speakers (Fr. Straub) from the conference. (I am hiding at the very beginning of the clip on the right 8-). They have their own YouTube channel and their outreach website, AirMaria, with regular webcasts.
Our community is a Roman Catholic religious institute of pontifical rite. Our charism is founded on the spirituality of St. Maximilian Kolbe, which is both Franciscan and Marian. The purpose of this site is to continue in the tradition of St. Maximilian and use the most modern means of communication to promote the welfare of souls by preaching the faith of the Church and making Our Lady known and loved.
A very traditional order with a very modern way of evangalizing! Deo Gratias!
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This is a well developed video. Was this developed by the Friars themselves or was it made through the help of advertising or marketing firm or maybe the diocese? I would love to create a listing of advertising/marketing firms that support work for the Catholic Church and specifically vocations.
@ShellyFravala - you should probably check out The Maximus Group, then; they tweet!
Advancing the faith.
I am 95% sure the Friars did this video themselves. They have some extremely talented men in their order. I'll try 2 find out and will post back. They are based out of Conn. I will see if I can get in touch with them.... Hmm, these friars could be open source friars too??
Quite true, Matt - we'll see :-)
Advancing the faith.
From the friars:
Ave Maria!
Thanks for the interest and encouragement. Yes, the vocations video was done in house, narrating, filming and editing. We are into open source in a big way, trying to learn php, mysql. We currently use Wordpress but are hoping to go to Joomla soon. Just need to find the time!! Thanks for the tip on opensourcecatholic.com and for posting the video. We will be popping in once in a while.
In the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
I recommend the Friars look into drupal! It is a powerful, yet user friendly system and it gets better with each day for wonderful developers are sharing their talents to benefit the work of others.
lol - well, Joomla is also getting better each day, with wonderful developers.
But I know a lot of people who think the Drupal devs are *more* wonderful! ;-)
Advancing the faith.
LOL! Despite the Drupal success, Joomla continues to have a large following itself. Some other have commented that the competition between the two will be mutually beneficial at creating the best products possible.
@Matt_K - most definitely! Two similar products for two similar audiences, with special characteristics for each.
Advancing the faith.
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