USCCB Podcasts begin Sunday

Daily Mass Readings Now Downloadable From Bishops’ Catholic Communication Campaign Web Site

WASHINGTON (December 1, 2006)—The daily Mass readings are now downloadable from the U.S. Bishops’ Catholic Communication Campaign (CCC) Web site.

The program begins December 3, the First Sunday of Advent. It was prepared in association with the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine using audio recordings of the readings from the New American Bible. Information on downloading the audio can be found on the popular “Daily Readings” section of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Web site at www.usccb.org or www.usccb.org/nab.

“The Internet is now a part of our lives and a medium which can help provide for spiritual enrichment,” says Archbishop George H. Niederauer of San Francisco, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Communications. “This service complements the text versions of the readings already popular on the USCCB Web site and responds to the many requests for ‘podcasts’ of the readings.