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Excerpt from In Memoriam A. H. H.
Alfred Tennyson
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Anthony Esolen
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6:58
O Jesus, I Have Promised
Our hymn today brings into play two relationships that may seem to us impossible to combine. One is of friend with friend, and the other is of Master…
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FRIEND
“It is like taking the sun out of the world,” says Cicero, “to bereave human life of friendship, than which the gods have given man nothing more…
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5:23
"Let's Fall in Love"
Harold Arlen was recently married when he wrote this song, having himself fallen in love in his twenties when his future wife was a show girl still in…
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Debra Esolen
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Huckleberry Finn (Aloud)
Chapters 19-20
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43:29
Odd Man Out (1947)
Our film is about a terrorist Irish patriot, on the lam after escaping from prison. He's been ordered to rob a mill. But is he up to the task…
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Anthony Esolen
To Autumn
Sometimes a work which is perfect, flawless in its kind. Such a poem is John Keats’ three-stanza ode, “To Autumn.”
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4:35
O Gladsome Light
Here is one of the earliest Christian hymns we still possess, perhaps the very earliest. English poet Robert Bridges happily rendered the Greek as "O…
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September 2024

FALL
Why do we have two words in English to describe the season before winter -- autumn and fall?  Read or listen to find out!
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6:37
"I'll Be Seeing You"
Irving Kahal/Sammy Fain
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Debra Esolen
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Huckleberry Finn (Aloud)
Today’s reading is Chapters 17 and 18 of Huckleberry Finn -- Huck’s time with the Grangerfords, feuding with the Shepherdsons. Listen and laugh along…
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43:25
Rear Window (1954)
Artists, actors, directors, musicians, poets, even sports stars are often underrated because people see what they do very well but miss that they do…
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