AUDIO LIBRARY
Catholic Prayers, Devotions, and more
for listening and learning
The prayers, devotions, and other sacred
readings indexed below are the treasury of Holy Mother the Catholic
Church — many are basic prayers ... some that go back to the earliest
Church, and have been prayed for more than 2000 years in unbroken succession
throughout the world and all of time since Mary first uttered her
Magnificat in response to the message of the Angel Gabriel that
she was to be the Mother of the Redeemer of the world. Others came later
still, and together formed a sacred repository of what is most holy
in our response to God's invitation through the Prophets, and finally
through His Only-Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. To these were added still
many more prayers from His most faithful followers, the Saints — prayers
that the Church has ever jealously guarded and zealously fostered. Together
they became the ever-ascending voice of one Church, one Faith, one Hope
— one in all things for the love of Christ, for the salvation
of souls, and for the sanctification of her children. Sadly, for
more than 40 years, in another wilderness and through another desert,
the children have wandered and forgot their beginning, and consequently
their end, which is God. God in and through His Mystical Bride the Church
for whom He suffered. Her children have become wayward, and so many
of Her Shepherds have abandoned the flock, ceasing to teach, to pass
on (tradere ... the "passing on to" that we understand as
Sacred Tradition) this unspeakably beautiful patrimony of Christ and
His Saints in the way of holy prayer to the children ... our children
... and to us — who also were never taught. Come, then, let us gather
what has been strewn, recover what has been lost, pick up what has been
willfully discarded in a desperate pursuit of the world and the things
of the world, to the loss our sense of what is sacred, and in this loss,
losing God Himself. Do not despair. What man has forsaken yet lives
in God forever, and because it lives in God, it lives in the bosom and
heart of His Holy Bride the Church forever, unto the consummation of
all things.
This list
of prayers, devotions, and readings will be added to in coming months,
and are intended to assist you, as a Catholic, to learn the beauty of
the prayers of the Church, the depth of wisdom in the Book of Psalms,
and the holy devotions that have ever assisted Catholics throughout
the centuries in their desire to attain to sanctity, to sainthood, to
which every Catholic is called ...a d to nothing less.
You can
download them as you will, and listen to them as you drive or sit at
home — on your i-Pod or MP3 player, or simply on your computer. You
can copy them to a CD and take them with you wherever you go. We encourage
you to share them with as many people as possible, Catholic and non-Catholic
— always and everywhere,
instuare omnia in Christo:
"to re-establish all things in Christ, that are in Heaven and on
Earth, in Him."
(Ephesians 1.10)
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