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TRUTH & LIFE DRAMATIZED AUDIO BIBLE
New Testament (18-CD set)
The Truth & Life Dramatized Audio Bible New Testament is endorsed with an Imprimatur from the Vatican and includes a foreword by Pope Benedict XVI. This audio book blends voices, sound effects and an original music score to create an aural environment that will totally immerse you in the Scriptures. Performed in radio drama style with a large cast including internationally-renowned actors Neal McDonough (as Jesus), Kristen Bell (as Mary Magdalene), Sean Astin (as Matthew), Michael York (as Luke), Blair Underwood (as Mark), Malcolm McDowell (as Caiaphas), Stacy Keach (as John), Brian Cox (as the Voice of God), Julia Ormond (as Mary, Mother of God) and John Rhys-Davies (as the Narrator). This Truth & Life Dramatized Audio Bible New Testament uses the RSV-CE translation.
From Chicago to Hollywood to New York and beyond... over 70 actors, 20 audio engineers in 10 studios over 3 continents contributed to the creation of this ambitious project, which took 10,000 production hours to complete. Playing time is 22 hours on 18 CDs.
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THE HOLY RULE OF ST. BENEDICT
(3-CD Audio Book Set)
Whether you are commuting to work or relaxing at home, you can join monks and nuns all over the world for a daily reading from the Holy Rule. St. Benedict, the father of Western monasticism, composed this rule of obedience, humility and contemplation fifteen hundred years ago, and to this day it remains a guide for living in religious community. This translation by Rev. Boniface Verheyen of St. Benedict Abbey in Atchison, Kansas is both traditional and accessible. Narrator John Polhamus renders it with careful pacing and a crisp, clear authoritative tone. Each chapter has a separate track, so listeners can easily stop and repeat chapters. 75 tracks; 2 hours 40 minutes.
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ON LOVING GOD
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
On Loving God is first a touching description of God's love for us as unmistakably demonstrated in the death of his Son. Second, it is a call for us to joyfully respond to God like the child who runs to and embraces her father whose love is sure. As St. Bernard writes, "They love all the more, because they know themselves to be loved so exceedingly." On Loving God posits that everything good in human persons is an expression of God's love and by love the person may participate in the being of the triune God. Unabridged. Read by John Polhamus,
2 CDs, Total time 1.75 hr.
Bernard of Clairvaux, (1090 - August 20, 1153) was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian monastic order.
"We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable."---Bernard of Clairvaux
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DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL
St. John of the Cross
"With His gentle hand He wounded my neck and caused all my senses to be suspended."
Part poetic masterpiece, part mystic treatise, The Dark Night of the Soul by 16th century Carmelite monk St. John of the Cross, addresses the feeling of being forgotten by the Presence of the Almighty that every Christian desirous of walking more closely with God must pass through in order to learn to walk by faith and not by sight. The texts tell of the saint's mystical development and the stages he is subjected to on his journey towards union with God.
"Spiritual persons suffer great trials...by reason…of the fear which they have of being lost on the road, thinking that all spiritual blessing is over for them and that God has abandoned them since they find no help or pleasure in good things. Then they grow weary, and endeavor to concentrate their faculties with some degree of pleasure upon some object of meditation, thinking that, when they are not doing this and yet are conscious of making an effort, they are doing nothing."
Perhaps one of the most widely recognized of mystical writings, St. John's classic Dark Night of the Soul is not only practical theology but a beautiful balm of healing to anyone whose heart has ever echoed the words of Christ, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" Read by Michael Kramer. Unabridged.
5-CD set, approx. 5.5 hrs.
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THOMAS MERTON:
NO MAN IS AN ISLAND
(7 CD Audio Book Set)
Read by Jonathan Montaldo
"This volume is a stimulating seri
es of spiritual reflections which will prove helpful for all struggling to find the meaning of human existence and to live the richest, fullest and noblest life."
-- Chicago Tribune
No Man Is an Island is a collection of 16 essays in which Thomas Merton plumbs aspects of human spirituality. Merton treats the "basic verities on which the spiritual life depends." Essay themes include hope, conscience, sacrifice, charity, sincerity, mercy and silence. The work is threaded through with Merton's deep awareness that we are all called to "live not for ourselves but for others." The first essay, "Love Can Be Kept Only by Being Given Away," is a spiritual classic.
7 CDs
approx. 9 hours
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THOMAS MERTON:
CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER
(4 CD Audio Book Set)
Read by Jonathan Montaldo
This is Thomas Merton at his contemplative best, applying ancient wisdom to the longings of our age through his thoughtful commentary on Scripture and important writers of the Western spiritual tradition.
While writing first for those in monastic life, Merton reaches "beyond the refectory lectern to remind us of the importance -- nay, relevance -- of prayer for all Christians, contemplative or other."
-- America
4 CDs
approx. 4 1/2 hours
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REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE
(5-CD Audio Book Set)
Some consider these 16 Revelations to be the height of European mysticism. Julian (ca. 1342-1416), a Benedictine nun in Norwich, England, spent 20 years meditating on her visions before writing about them. Although she lived in a time of turmoil, her theology is optimistic, speaking of God in terms of universal love and of human suffering not as divine punishment. Translated in 1901 by Grace Warren, a Dean and Professor of English and read beautifully by Pam Ward, this audiobook is both scholarly and accessible. 37 separate track, so listeners can easily stop and repeat sections. Approx. 6 hours.
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THE PROMISED LAND OF VOCATION
Natalie Smith has observed the vocations discernment process of thousands of individuals since 2001. Subtitled "Knowing if You're Called to Marriage, Religious Life or the Priesthood," The Promised Land of Vocation shares her insights on this process such as:
The 3 sure signs that you're marrying the right person or joining the right community or diocese.
The 5 most common steps in vocational discernment.
How to identify what you truly want.
4 quick ways to destroy your vocation once you are there (what NOT to do).
The 4 most important words you will ever use in your vocation.
Natalie answers difficult questions on debt, unsupportive friends and relatives, sexuality, and what to do if you are in the wrong vocation. She encourages the reader and seeker: "It is never too late to co-create your vocation with God."
2-CD Audio Book Set
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