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111 episodes
Updated Jun 1, 2022

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Jun 1, 2022 · 2 hr 23 min
Tertullian - On Shows and On Patience
Two texts - Read by Maria Lectrix Text 2 starts at 1h21m20 seconds
May 31, 2022 · 5 hr 45 min
Banquet of the Ten Virgins (Methodius)
Banquet of the Ten Virgins (Methodius) - Read by Maria Lectrix
May 30, 2022 · 2 hr 4 min
On the Life of St. Martin (Sulpitius Severus)
On the Life of St. Martin (Sulpitius Severus) - Read by Maria lectrix
May 29, 2022 · 2 hr 24 min
On Holy Images - St John Damascene
On Holy Images - St John Damascene - Read by Maria Lectrix
May 28, 2022 · 6 hr 42 min
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem Catechetical Lectures [2/2]
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem Catechetical Lectures - Maria Lectrix
May 27, 2022 · 7 hr 1 min
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem Catechetical Lectures [1/2]
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem Catechetical Lectures - Maria Lectrix
Mar 1, 2022 · 7 hr 13 min
Lent Homilies from the Church Fathers
Lent Homilies from the Church Fathers
Feb 6, 2022 · 7 hr 38 min
Orthodoxy - GK Chesterton
Read by David Grizzly Smith: https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidGrizzlySmith
Feb 4, 2022 · 1 hr 21 min
The Apocalypse Of Saint John (Knox Bible)
The Apocalypse Of Saint John read by Hugh Thwaites SJ
Feb 3, 2022 · 2 hr 44 min
Acts Of The Apostles (Knox Bible)
Acts Of The Apostles read by Hugh Thwaites SJ
Feb 2, 2022 · 2 hr 16 min
The Gospel According To Saint John (Knox Bible)
read by Hugh Thwaites SJ
Feb 1, 2022 · 2 hr 43 min
The Gospel of Luke (Knox Bible)
The Gospel of Luke (Knox Bible) – Read by Hugh Thwaites SJ
Jan 31, 2022 · 1 hr 39 min
The Gospel of Mark (Knox Bible)
Read by Hugh Thwaites SJ
Jan 30, 2022 · 2 hr 38 min
The Gospel According to Matthew (Knox Bible)
Read by Hugh Thwaites SJ
Jan 16, 2022 · 3 hr 52 min
On the Holy Spirit - St Basil
source: https://ccel.org/ This classic exposition of Trinitarian doctrine eloquently sets forth the distinction yet perpetual communion of the divine Persons. Without explicitly calling the Spirit "God, " St Basil demonstrates that He, like the Son, is of the same nature with the Father.
Jan 15, 2022 · 8 hr 1 min
Confessions [2/2] - St Augustine
Confessions is generally considered one of Augustine's most important texts. It is widely seen as the first Western Christian autobiography ever written, and was an influential model for Christian writers throughout the Middle Ages. Professor Henry Chadwick wrote that Confessions will "always rank among the great masterpieces of western literature." The work is not a complete autobiography, as it was written during Saint Augustine's early 40s and he lived long afterwards, producing another important work, The City of God. Nonetheless, it does provide an unbroken record of his development of thought and is the most complete record of any single person from the 4th and 5th centuries. It is a significant theological work, featuring spiritual meditations and insights. In the work, Augustine writes about how he regrets having led a sinful and immoral life. He discusses his regrets for following the Manichaean religion and believing in astrology. He writes about his friend Nebridius's role in helping to persuade him that astrology was not only incorrect but evil, and Saint Ambrose's role in his conversion to Christianity. The first nine books are autobiographical and the last four are commentary and significantly more philosophical. He shows intense sorrow for his sexual sins and writes on the importance of sexual morality. The books were written as prayers to God, thus the title, based on the Psalms of David; and it begins with "For Thou hast made us for Thyself and our hearts are restless till they rest in Thee." The work is thought to be divisible into books which symbolize various aspects of the Trinity and trinitarian belief.
Jan 15, 2022 · 7 hr 59 min
Confessions [1/2] - St Augustine
Source: https://www.ccel.org/ Confessions is generally considered one of Augustine's most important texts. It is widely seen as the first Western Christian autobiography ever written, and was an influential model for Christian writers throughout the Middle Ages. Professor Henry Chadwick wrote that Confessions will "always rank among the great masterpieces of western literature." The work is not a complete autobiography, as it was written during Saint Augustine's early 40s and he lived long afterwards, producing another important work, The City of God. Nonetheless, it does provide an unbroken record of his development of thought and is the most complete record of any single person from the 4th and 5th centuries. It is a significant theological work, featuring spiritual meditations and insights. In the work, Augustine writes about how he regrets having led a sinful and immoral life. He discusses his regrets for following the Manichaean religion and believing in astrology. He writes about his friend Nebridius's role in helping to persuade him that astrology was not only incorrect but evil, and Saint Ambrose's role in his conversion to Christianity. The first nine books are autobiographical and the last four are commentary and significantly more philosophical. He shows intense sorrow for his sexual sins and writes on the importance of sexual morality. The books were written as prayers to God, thus the title, based on the Psalms of David; and it begins with "For Thou hast made us for Thyself and our hearts are restless till they rest in Thee." The work is thought to be divisible into books which symbolize various aspects of the Trinity and trinitarian belief.
Jan 14, 2022 · 6 hr 49 min
Eugenics and Other Evils - G K Chesterton
read by David Grizzly Smith. Source: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIQTLNiaJzSWOFz5lSfdn6Q In Eugenics and Other Evils, Chesterton attacked eugenics as Parliament was moving towards passage of the Mental Deficiency Act 1913. Some backing the ideas of eugenics called for the government to sterilise people deemed "mentally defective"; this view did not gain popularity but the idea of segregating them from the rest of society and thereby preventing them from reproducing did gain traction. These ideas disgusted Chesterton who wrote, "It is not only openly said, it is eagerly urged that the aim of the measure is to prevent any person whom these propagandists do not happen to think intelligent from having any wife or children." He blasted the proposed wording for such measures as being so vague as to apply to anyone, including "Every tramp who is sulk, every labourer who is shy, every rustic who is eccentric, can quite easily be brought under such conditions as were designed for homicidal maniacs. That is the situation; and that is the point ... we are already under the Eugenist State; and nothing remains to us but rebellion." He derided such ideas as founded on nonsense, "as if one had a right to dragoon and enslave one's fellow citizens as a kind of chemical experiment". Chesterton mocked the idea that poverty was a result of bad breeding: "[it is a] strange new disposition to regard the poor as a race; as if they were a colony of Japs or Chinese coolies ... The poor are not a race or even a type. It is senseless to talk about breeding them; for they are not a breed. They are, in cold fact, what Dickens describes: 'a dustbin of individual accidents,' of damaged dignity, and often of damaged gentility."
Jan 13, 2022 · 40 min
GK Chesterton - Two Short Essays
Why I am Catholic An introduction to the Book of Job
Jan 12, 2022 · 6 hr 27 min
The Everlasting Man [2/2] - GK Chesterton
Read by David Grizzly Smith: https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidGrizzlySmith The Everlasting Man is a Christian apologetics book written by G. K. Chesterton, published in 1925. It is, to some extent, a deliberate rebuttal of H. G. Wells' The Outline of History, disputing Wells' portrayals of human life and civilisation as a seamless development from animal life and of Jesus Christ as merely another charismatic figure. Chesterton detailed his own spiritual journey in Orthodoxy, but in this book he tries to illustrate the spiritual journey of humanity, or at least of Western civilisation. The author Ross Douthat credits that, "Chesterton's somewhat loosey-goosey outline of history doubles as the best modern argument for Christianity I've ever read. You have to give in to the Chestertonian style, but if you do, be careful — you might just be converted."

Traditional Catholic Audiobooks

Tertullian - On Shows and On Patience

Banquet of the Ten Virgins (Methodius)

On the Life of St. Martin (Sulpitius Severus)

On Holy Images - St John Damascene

Saint Cyril of Jerusalem Catechetical Lectures [2/2]

Saint Cyril of Jerusalem Catechetical Lectures [1/2]

Lent Homilies from the Church Fathers

Orthodoxy - GK Chesterton

The Apocalypse Of Saint John (Knox Bible)

Acts Of The Apostles (Knox Bible)

The Gospel According To Saint John (Knox Bible)

The Gospel of Luke (Knox Bible)

The Gospel of Mark (Knox Bible)

The Gospel According to Matthew (Knox Bible)

On the Holy Spirit - St Basil

Confessions [2/2] - St Augustine

Confessions [1/2] - St Augustine

Eugenics and Other Evils - G K Chesterton

GK Chesterton - Two Short Essays

The Everlasting Man [2/2] - GK Chesterton