#135: Lecture 9, Catechetical Lectures by St. Cyril of Jerusalem

Lecture 9: On the words “Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things, visible and invisible”.

22:31.

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#134: Ch. 43, Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour by R.S. Surtees

Ch. 43: Another Sick Host

14:34.

Mr. Sponge finds himself in a sticky spot once again.

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#133: Ch. 42, Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour by R.S. Surtees

Ch. 42: The Morning’s Reflections

18:30.

A little moral and practical lesson here. 🙂

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#132: Ch. 41, Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour by R.S. Surtees

Ch. 41: Dinner and a Deal

33:03.

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#131: Ch. 40, Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour by R.S. Surtees

Ch. 40: A Literary Bloomer

10:44.

This chapter, which follows the article-writing in Chapter 39, is pretty funny to me. A nice look at how the old system of multiple newspapers might work in a tiny town.

(‘Bloomer’ is a contemporary term for a feminist, after the lady who invented bloomers. And yes, in the illustrations Miss Lucy is indeed wearing bloomers. But of course, ‘bloomer’ also still means ‘big mistake’ in British slang.)

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Blog Announcement

The latest installments of Mr. Sponge will be up shortly — God willing and the crick don’t rise. However, due to poor planning on my part and the fact I’m going to have needles stuck in me tomorrow morning, I’m not going to have the latest installments of the Catechetical Lectures up first thing in the morning, either.

I apologize for the Lenten inconvenience. If it helps any, I assure you that needles make me feel very penitent.

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#130: Part 2 of “The Diamond Lens” by Fitz-James O’Brien

The conclusion of “The Diamond Lens”. One man’s dream of the perfect microscope leads him to cruel deeds and a strange fate.

Part 2, “The Diamond Lens”

38:08.

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#129: Part 32, The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis

The very end of Book 3. Contains Chapters 58 and 59: “High Matters and the Hidden Judgments of God Are Not to Be Scrutinized” and “All Hope and Trust Are to Be Fixed in God Alone”.

Part 32
12:08.

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#128: Part 31, The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis

We’re almost at the end of Book 3. Contains Chapter 56: We Ought to Deny Ourselves and Imitate Christ through Bearing the Cross; and Chapter 57: A Man Ought Not to Be Too Downcast When He Falls into Defects.
Part 31.

7:27

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#127: “What Happened to Alanna” by Kathleen Thompson Norris

This is a really nice little story about a little girl, a church bazaar, and the burden of responsibility for a raffle item.

The author was very well known and popular at the time and apparently was also matriarch of several literary clans, as well as having 18 movies adapted from her work. But I never had heard of her before this week, even in classes on female American writers. So here’s a fun Irish Catholic (or tough Californian reporter chick) foremother for us!
“What Happened to Alanna”

32:40.

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Blog Announcement

1. Yes, I played around with the theme again.

2. WordPress.com has decided to clearly differentiate “categories” and “tags”. If you click on one of my “categories” in the left sidebar (like “Humor”), you’ll get a list of my posts (or podcasts, or audiobooks) on that subject. If you click on the same word right underneath said post, you’ll go to a page listing posts on that subject from blogs all over wordpress.com.

I think this is a pretty interesting and fun feature, as long as you realize what’s going on. So now I do, and so do you.

3. Welcome to all my new visitors! The best way to pick out all the podcasts of one book on this blog is either to use the search, or click on the category on the sidebar for it. For example, if you wanted to find all the Catechetical Lectures I’ve read so far, you could click on “The Fathers”.

You can also go to the detail page where these podcasts are hosted on archive.org; I link to it in every podcast post. There are usually multiple pages for a long book like The Catechetical Lectures. I try to have them in a logical order, also; if you find yourself on http://www.archive.org/details/CyrilJCatLects02, you can just change one number in the URL and find the first part at CyrilJCatLects01. On the details page, you can also find various other file formats derived from my original mp3, and sometimes “cover art” as well.
(On a few occasions, archive.org wouldn’t give me the next number in sequence because it was acting up. If you can’t find a detail page, use the search feature on archive.org, and it should come right up.)

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#126: Ch. 8, The Eye of Osiris by R. Austin Freeman

The British Museum is just the place for romance, and a mummy is a great test of intimacy! Yes, love among the poor and over-educated is a geeky-splendored thing. Too bad all that talk about chopped-up body parts has to shadow the evening’s end….

Chapter 8: A Museum Idyll

25:56.

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#125: Ch. 7, The Eye of Osiris by R. Austin Freeman

With Thorndyke and Jervis to interpret for us, we finally get to read the bizarre last will and testament of the vanished Egyptologist, John Bellingham.

Chapter 7: John Bellingham’s Will

37 min.

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By the way, if you didn’t notice, I fixed the faulty link to Chapter 6 of this book, back in #114.

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#124: Lecture 8, Catechetical Lectures by St. Cyril of Jerusalem

A short lecture on why Christians call God “almighty” in the creed the candidates are learning.

Lecture 8: Almighty.

9:58.

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#123: Lecture 7, Catechetical Lectures by St. Cyril of Jerusalem

The Catechetical Lectures continue. This one is all about God the Father.

Lecture 7: The Father.

20:31.

I’m going for medical tests tomorrow and staying with my parents tonight, so it’ll be a lightly blogged Wednesday for the Fathers. Sorry about that.

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