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"Auld Lang Syne"

Pottersville Nation

Remember the Night (1940)

The Journey of the Magi

The Journey of the Magi

"What Star is This"

Epiphany

Epiphany

"Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly"

Must-Watch Christmas Movies

"It's a Wonderul Life" Again?

Christmas

Christmas

Wake, Awake, for Night is Flying

Wake

Wake

Christmas Waltz

A Gift for All our Subscribers: Tony's Reading of "A Christmas Carol"

Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

Christmas at Sea

Christmas at Sea

"The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came"

Angel

Angel

Sleigh Ride

A Christmas Carol

The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)

The House of Christmas

"The House of Christmas"

On Jordan's Bank

Tidings

Tidings

"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"

Shane (1953)

Once in Royal David's City

"Lo, He Comes"

Advent

An Advent Message to Subscribers

Count Your Blessings

The Lord of the Harvest

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Gratefulness

"Gratefulness"

"Let All Things Now Living"

Grace

Grace

"All the Things You Are"

The Gift of Self: Modern Culture's Impact on Love

Love Affair (1939)

When You are Old

When You are Old

Dear Lord and Father of Mankind

Dear

Dear

There's a Long, Long Trail

Revisiting "Liberty"

Marching Together

Battleground (1949)

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields

"O Valiant Hearts"

Hallow

Hallow

"The Sixpence"

"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

How Green Was My Valley (1941)

In the Elegy Season

In the Elegy Season

For All the Saints

Memory

Memory

Instrumental Version of "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair"

"Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair"

"It is broken metrically, to describe a civilization in rubble."

Julius Caesar (1953)

Jordan (I)

Jordan (I)

Songs of Praise the Angels Sang

Verse

Verse

"It's De-Lovely"

This one's on the house!

He Has Lifted Up the Lowly

David Copperfield (1935)

The Naming of Cats

The Naming of Cats

Leaning On the Everlasting Arms

Merry & Mirth

Merry & Mirth

Tenderly

"The Lotos-Eaters"

Tender Mercies (1983)

The Oven-Bird

The Oven-Bird

Be Thou My Vision

Yield

Yield

The Dog Ate My Homework

Autumn Leaves

Reclaiming Childhood through Poetry

The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

To Autumn

To Autumn

Lead, Kindly Light

Harvest

Harvest

Stormy Weather

Shakespeare's Tempest and the Miseducation of American Youth

Key Largo (1948)

Prayer for My Daughter

Prayer for My Daughter

Eternal Father, Strong to Save

Speed

Speed

September Song

Isaac and Archibald

The Yearling (1946)

After Apple-Picking

After Apple-Picking

We Plow the Fields and Scatter

September

Small Fry

The Threat Outside the Door

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

Expostulation and Reply

Expostulation and Reply

School

School

Sixteen Tons

A Manna for All Seasons

Lilies of the Field (1963)

The Village Blacksmith

The Village Blacksmith

Now the Laborer's Task is O'er

Work

Work

Around the World

And the World Knew Him Not

Lost Horizon (1937)

The World is Too Much with Us

"The World is Too Much with Us"

"For God So Loved the World"

World

World

"Summertime"

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Cheaper by the Dozen

Blueberries

Blueberries

For the Beauty of the Earth

Summer

Summer

On the Importance of Good Relationships between the Sexes

Love and Marriage

Penny Serenade (1941)

Sonnet 116: "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds"

Sonnet 116: "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds"

"The Church's One Foundation"

Wedlock

Wedlock

Sentimental Journey

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

Ulysses

Ulysses

Pleasant are Thy Courts Above

Journey

Journey

The Fool on the Hill

Satan tries to pretend that Hell is a fine place

The Browning Version (1951)

My Last Duchess

My Last Duchess

My Spirit Longs for Thee

Irony

Irony

Puff, the Magic Dragon

Defending Boyhood

Good-bye, My Lady

Birches

It Fell Upon a Summer Day

Innocent

Manhattan

The Old Cumberland Beggar

You Can't Take It With You (1938)

As Kingfishers Catch Fire

As Kingfishers Catch Fire

All Things are Thine

Out of the Ashes Podcast

Elite

Elite

I Left My Heart in San Francisco

Hearts Uplifted

People Will Talk (1951)

Batter My Heart

Batter My Heart

Heart

Heart

Love's Old Sweet Song

Calon Lan

Paul Revere's Ride

The Long Gray Line

Concord Hymn

Hymn of the Week: "America"

Liberty

Liberty

Life with Father

Since There's No Help

The Old Hundredth

Welcome to the Word of the Week

Welcome to Word of the Week

Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

Dad

Talking About The Hundredfold

Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

Sex and the Unreal City

How the Church Has Changed The World

Defendng Boyhood

Real Music: A Guide to the Timeless Hymns of the Church

Angels, Barbarians, and Nincompoops

Defending Marriage:

Reclaiming Catholic Social Teaching

The Roman Missal Companion

The Beauty of the Word

Reflections on the Christian Life

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization

Ironies of Faith

The Divine Comedy

Jerusalem Delivered

My Books

On the Nature of Things

Coming Soon

Talking About "The Hundredfold"