Sometime in the next two weeks, I’m going to start riding my bike to work again. That gives me two hours a day to listen to music or a book. I would love to listen to The Book by ripping some MP3s and putting them on my old yet servicable HP Jornada. About ten years ago, I got the Gospels of Matthew and Luke on tape, and listened to them over and over again until I knew them from the inside out.
I would love to do that with the Pentateuch, but although our library has three different versions of the Old Testament, I cannot abide any of them. On one version, the reader is good, but the translation is “contemporary” and I just can’t get past the leaden, politically-correct language. The other two have decent texts, but the voices aren’t ones that I want to hear for hours on end. The Zondervan Old Testament has a musical soundtrack (yes!) complete with sound effects (so when in Genesis it refers to birds, you hear them tweeting in the background.) It sounds like an introductory segment for a video game.
Can anyone recommend a non-annoying, non-PC recording of the Old Testament, or at least the first five books? I’d be willing to part with up to $40 to get one. Thanks for the help!
Category: Spirituality
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Happy Feast Day to Me!
Today is the Feast Day of St. Raymond de Penafort. He is the Patron Saint of canon lawyers. Most of younger canonists in the area will be gathering for Mass at the university before visiting this nice Irish pub for a dinner party.
St. Blog Prayer Network
Dave Pawlak has just put together a new blog that gathers people’s prayer requests. I urge you to all check it out. It’s called St. Blog Prayer Network.
Classic Newman
From “A Short Road to Perfection”
September 27, 1856
If you ask me what you are to do in order to be perfect, I say, first-Do not lie in bed beyond the due time of rising; give your first thought to God; make a good visit to the Blessed Sacrament; say the Angelus devoutly; eat and drink to God’s glory; say the Rosary well; be recollected; keep out bad thoughts; make your evening meditation well; examine yourself daily; go to bed in good time, and you are already perfect.