Catholic Playlist #108

Special Advent and Christmas Music Edition

Catholic Playlist #108Sharing the joy of the Gospel through music – this is the Catholic Playlist show. Normally we’d be playing the best and some of the very newest contemporary Christian music from Catholic artists only. But this Sunday marks the start of the new Liturgical year and the Advent season, so instead for the next several weeks we’ll be playing the best and yes, some of the newest Advent and Christmas music available, including some brand new releases in the coming weeks.

Our playlist this features special music from Matt Maher (“Silent Night”), Josh Blakesley (“Love Has Captured the Night”), Sarah Hart (“Christ Is Lord”), Marian Grace, Ike Ndolo, Curtis Stephan, and The Boy’s Choir of St Paul’s Choir School sings “O Come All Ye Faithful” too. Enjoy!

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Catholic Playlist Worship – #38

Special Advent and Christmas Episode

Catholic Playlist Worship #38Once again we share the joy of the Gospel through music on the Catholic Playlist Worship show. Normally we’d be playing the best and some of the very newest traditional and sacred Catholic music. But this Sunday marks the start of the new Liturgical year and the Advent season, so instead of music we typically play, for the next several weeks we’ll be playing the best and some of the newest Advent and Christmas music available. Our playlist this week features music from Jackie Evancho, The Priests, Adrianne Price, Jon Sarta, Marian Grace, and the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of the Apostles. The Boys of St Paul’s Choir School and their album ‘Christmas in Harvard Square’, a great new release last year, leads off our playlist with ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’.

As usual, you can find the songs in playlist #9 in iTunes using these links:


Catholic Playlist Worship – #37

Catholic Playlist Worship #37Advent starts next week and until then check out the latest episode of the Catholic Playlist Worship show with many of your favorite traditional and sacred Catholic music. Hear the classic “How Beautiful” from Twila Paris, “On Eagle’s Wings” from Melinda Kirigin-Voss and “Breath of Heaven” from Michelle Romary. Sarah Hart appears in the playlist too with “Be With Me, Lord” and Jon Sarta’s piano instrumental of “Eye Has Not Seen”.

Looking for this music in iTunes? Here are links to every song in this playlist:


Catholic Playlist #104

With new featured artist Aly Aleigha

Catholic Playlist #104Welcome to the show that plays the best and very newest contemporary Christian music from Catholic artists today – a little show we call the Catholic Playlist. This is great inspirational music that you won’t hear anywhere else, so get ready to discover new music and new artists that you never knew about until right now. In our playlist this week we have the new radio single from Matt Maher’s latest album, great selections from Taylor Tripodi, Greg & Lizzy, John Finch, Josh Blakesley, and Jeremy & Ryan. Plus we have new featured artist this week – Aly Aleigha.

Aly AleighaAly Aleigha is a recent graduate of Franciscan University of Steubenville and currently works at the University of Minnesota, Duluth Newman Center under Father Mike Schmitz. Aly’s debut EP “Jealous Love” was recorded at the end of her senior year at Franciscan and was released in June 2015. To learn more about Aly, her music, speaking and more, check out her website www.aly-aleigha.com.

Enjoy the show:

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#99 Catholic Playlist Show

Catholic Playlist #99Just 1 more week until episode #100! But right now it’s playlist #99 for us this week as we continue to share the joy of the Gospel through the power of music. This week we feature performances from Adam Bitter, Ceili Rain, Luke Spehar, Sarah Hart, The Thirsting and others. The show starts with a set of songs from the performers at the Abbey Faith and Music Festival coming up on Saturday, September 19th at the Daylesford Abbey near Philadelphia. It’s a great music event! You can find out more about it at www.theabbeyfest.com and if you can’t go or live too far away, we give you a taste of the concert with 3 songs in a row from those performing. Up first is Marie Miller, then Ike Ndolo, and then wrapping up with Matt Maher.

Enjoy the show:

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#93 Catholic Playlist Show

Catholic Playlist #93We’re back with episode #93 of the Catholic Playlist show, finding and playing the best and newest contemporary Christian music from Catholic artists. And if you like the music you hear, be sure to to support these great artists by buying their music – we give you the artist and title for every song in the show so you can later look them up and maybe add some music to your collection – for instance this week we have music from Dave Moore, Dante Schmitz, Connor Flanagan, Sarah Hart, Greg & Lizzy, Dee Simone, plus we haven’t played anything from L’Angelus in a while, so we start playlist #93 with “River Road”:

Find all of the songs from playlist #93 in iTunes with our widget below or check them out on Amazon for mp3 versions.

Question: What’s your favorite song from this week’s show? What song would you like to hear next week?

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#89 Catholic Playlist Show

Catholic Playlist #89Just in time for the Independence Day holiday in the US is the newest Catholic Playlist show. As always we invite you to discover the joy of the Gospel through the power of this music each week. Many listeners tells us they enjoy listening because they get a chance to discover new music and artists they can add to their own personal playlists.

This week we invite you to check out the brand new single “Memorial” from Ike Ndolo, along with music from Matt Faley, Joe Zambon, Shaun Garrison, Cody Roth, Sarah Hart, and Marie Miller returns to the playlist as well. Dante Schmitz starts it all off with “Everything”

Just want to get your hands on the music? Here’s the iTunes playlist with links directly to the songs in this show:

#84 Catholic Playlist Show

Catholic Playlist #84The discovery and sharing of new music is both rewarding and fun. Who doesn’t like to tell their friends to listen to something that we like and are pretty sure they are going to like too? The fact that we get to discover and share new music with you through this show is nothing short of amazing.

So it’s with great anticipation that in this week’s show we’re debuting a brand new song from Fr Pontifex and his new album ‘The Invincibles’. The playlist also has music from Dee Simone, Audrey Assad, Ike Ndolo, Matt Faley, Kara Klein, Sarah Hart and a host of other great artists, including Dave Moore who gets the show started with “Swept Away”.

The second segment of the show is where you’ll find Fr Pontifex’s new song. Many of you may be asking – Who is “Fr Pontifex”? Well, Fr Pontifex is a priest in the diocese of Evansville, Indiana and he’s quite a talented Catholic hip hop artist who has now recorded 3 full length albums. You might be wondering why we’d play hip hop or ‘rap’ music on the Catholic Playlist, even if it is from a Catholic priest. The answer is that first this music is quite good, but second that this show is about discovering new music that carries the Catholic message – a message in a genre that’s attractive to our youth right now, and you need to know about it to be able to share it with others who might really enjoy it.

Pontifex-InvinciblesThe song we’ll be debuting is called “Ocean” and it’s the lead the single off of his new album “The Invincibles”. The song is about being called by God to the great adventure. One of the lines in the song – “Safer in your waters than these shores is what you promise” – encapsulates the meaning of this piece. God may call us to the deep waters, to the unknown and to place that is not comfortable but with that he promises his presence and grace. He walks with us and directs our steps.

Who are you going to discover and hear for the first time in this hour?

#79 Catholic Playlist Show

Catholic Playlist #79Brand new music headlines this episode of the Catholic Playlist as John Finch releases a new EP last week and new featured artist Dee Simone drops her debut EP Lovesick. That and more great music on the Catholic Playlist show, where we share the joy of the Gospel through music – Happy Easter everyone! Again we’ll be playing the best and the very newest contemporary Christian music from Catholic artists.

Catholic artists like Kara Klein, Marie Miller, Ben Walther, Sarah Hart, NOVUM, L’Angelus and others. But before we start the playlist, we need to welcome the listeners of 2 radio stations now carrying the Catholic Playlist show, first we welcome to the listeners of the Living Bread Radio Network in Northeast Ohio, the Canton and Youngstown areas specifically, and those listening to KCRD 98.3FM in the Dubuque, Iowa area – glad to have you aboard.

This is our first show since Easter Sunday, so it’s quite appropriate that we lead off this week’s playlist with “Sing Alleluia” from Cooper Ray.

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#75 Catholic Playlist Show

Catholic Playlist Show #75We have another great lineup for you this week, with music from Andrea Thomas, Sarah Hart, Tom Booth, Francis Cabildo and others, including Matt Maher who is arguably the biggest name in Catholic Christian contemporary music. I want you all to be aware that on January 23rd he used his Facebook page to announce a new studio album. In that little post, he simply wrote: “Excited to announce a new studio album “Saint and Sinners” releasing March 17th”. This will be his 8th album and is looking to extend his streak of 4 straight top 10 finishes on the Christian charts. A good song for Lent from Matt starts playlist show #75 – “Lay It Down”: