I listened to this and I'm rather convinced this is the best explication of the Cosmological Argument I've ever heard (and I've heard a few). It's particularly helpful for discussing the arguments for the existence of God with some of those "smarter than you" atheists who try to throw obscure cosmology (from bouncing universes to bubble universes to string theory - it's all addressed in the lectures) at you and expect you to fold. The examples and illustrations given are easy to remember and explain - this should definitely go on the "must listen" list. It's also quite helpful that he cites his sources. If it's important for you to get the sources, do remember to bring a pencil.

The speaker is Protestant apologist William Lane Craig. I've blogged about him before, so if you need a recap on his bio just click here.

2007/08/13

Cosmological Argument (Pt. 1)

2007/08/20

Cosmological Argument (Pt. 2)

2007/08/27

Cosmological Argument (Pt. 3)

2007/09/03

Cosmological Argument (Pt. 4)

2007/09/10

Cosmological Argument (Pt. 5)

2007/09/17

Question and Answer

More good stuff from those wonderful folks at St. Martha's in Kingwood, TX:

Title mp3 Links Speaker Date Catholic Spirituality of St. John mp3 Msgr. Borski 11/16/05 St. Paul mp3 Jeff Crandall 09/14/05 St. Vincent de Paul mp3 Deacon Alfredo Soto 11/09/05 The Carmelites mp3 Carla Lewton The Charismatic Renewal mp3 Deacon Tom Vicknair 11/02/05 Prayer Conversion mp3 Bishop Vincent Rizzotto 02/05/08 Prayer mp3 Connie Hays 12/01/05 How to Pray Well (Presented to 9th gr.) PowerPoint mp3 Jeff Crandall 03/06/06

If you like these, don't forget to check out the Doctors of the Church series by Fr. Hudgins.

From these folks:

Amici Cantores - Concerto per il XV° di fondazione
Chiesa di S. Pio X - Milano -

Nome	File(s)	Dimensione
Alma Redemptoris mater T.L. de Victoria	Amici Cantores - Alma Redemptoris mater.mp3.001	3000 KB
	Amici Cantores - Alma Redemptoris mater.mp3.002	3000 KB
	Amici Cantores - Alma Redemptoris mater.mp3.003	178 KB
Ave Maria a 8 T.L. de Victoria	Amici Cantores - Ave Maria a 8.mp3.001	3000 KB
	Amici Cantores - Ave Maria a 8.mp3.002	906 KB
Ave maria Josquin des Pres	Amici Cantores - Ave maria Josquin.mp3.001	3000 KB
	Amici Cantores - Ave maria Josquin.mp3.002	2140 KB
Caligaverunt T.L. de Victoria	Amici Cantores - Caligaverunt.mp3	2859 KB
Exsultate Deo G.P. da Palestrina	Amici Cantores - Exsultate Deo.mp3	2350 KB
Exsultate justi in Domino L. Grossi da Viadana	Amici Cantores - Exsultate justi in Domino.mp3	2341 KB
Incipit oratio Jeremiae G. P. da Palestrina	Amici Cantores - Incipit oratio Jeremiae.mp3.001	3000 KB
	Amici Cantores - Incipit oratio Jeremiae.mp3.002	3000 KB
	Amici Cantores - Incipit oratio Jeremiae.mp3.003	1687 KB
Jesu dulcis memoria T.L. de Victoria	Amici Cantores - Jesu dulcis memoria.mp3	2440 KB
O magnum mysterium T.L. de Victoria	Amici Cantores - O magnum mysterium.mp3	2880 KB
Quam pulchri sunt T.L. de Victoria	Amici Cantores - Quam pulchri sunt.mp3.001	3000 KB
	Amici Cantores - Quam pulchri sunt.mp3.002	319 KB
Sicut cervus G.P. da Palestrina	Amici Cantores - Sicut cervus.mp3	2344 KB
Taedet T.L. de Victoria	Amici Cantores - Taedet.mp3.001	3000 KB
	Amici Cantores - Taedet.mp3.002	216 KB
Tu solus qui facis mirabilia Josquin des Pres	Amici Cantores - Tu solus qui facis mirabilia.mp3.001	3000 KB
	Amici Cantores - Tu solus qui facis mirabilia.mp3.002	1191 KB
Vere languores nostros T.L. de Victoria	Amici Cantores - Vere languores nostros.mp3.001	3000 KB
	Amici Cantores - Vere languores nostros.mp3.002	254 KB

Just a reminder, there are a number of songs and chants like the following here:

• Bashana Haba'ah
• Bashana Haba'ah - Ehud Manor, Nurit Hirsch, arr. John Leavitt
• Bashanna Haba'ah
• Be Not Afraid
• Be Not Afraid
• Be still and know that I am God
• Be Still, and Know That I Am God
• Be Thou a Smooth Way - Ralph M. Johnson
• Be Thou My Vision
• Be Thou My Vision - John Rutter
• Be Thou My Vision - John Rutter
• Be thou my vision - verses 1 & 5
• Beata Cujus (Binicum VII) - Orlando di Lasso
• Beata es Virgo Maria - Giovanni Gabrieli
• Beata progenies
• Beati Mortui - Felix Mendelssohn
• Beati mundo corde
• Beati omnes - M. Robledo
• Beati Quorum Via
• Beati quorum via
• Beati quorum via - Charles Stanford
• Beati Quorum Via - Charles V. Stanford
• Beati quorum via - Charles Villiers Stanford
• Beati Quorum Via - Charles Villiers Stanford
• Beati quorum via - Stanford
• Beati Quorum Via - Stanford
• Beati quorum via - Stanford
• Beati Quorum Via - Stanford
• Beati voi poveri
• Beatitudes
• Béatrice et Bénédict: Le vin de Syracuse - Berlioz
• Beatus Primo
• Beatus Vir - Mariano Mora
• Beautiful Savior
• Beautiful Savior
• Beautiful Savior
• Beautiful Savior - Christiansen
• Begala e Vena
• Behold Man
• Bell Carols
• Bell Chorus, from "Symphony No. 3" - Mahler
• Belle Nuit from Les Contes D’Hoffmann - Jacques Offenbach
• Belle qui tiens ma vie - Anonym French XVI
• Belle qui Tiens Ma Vie - Thoinot Arbeau
• Belle qui tient ma vie (Lamentabile BP) - Thoinot Arbeau
• Belle qui tient ma vie, pavane - Thoinot Arbeau
• Belle Rose du Printemps
• Bells On Christmas Eve
• Beneath His Father’s Heaven
• Benedicamus Domino
• Benedicamus Domino
• Benedicamus Domino (organum, XII secolo)
• Benedicamus Domino - Warlock
• Benedicta es (clip 1) - Josquin
• Benedicta es (clip 2) - Josquin
• Benedictus
• Benedictus
• Benedictus - E. Paladilhe
• Benedictus - Gabriel Fauré
• Benedictus - Josef Rheinberger
• Benedictus - Missa Pro Defundus - Giovanni Matteo Asola
• Benedictus - Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Benedictus Es, Domini

Mark Shea writes:

First I get this email from Jeffrey Mark Ostrowski, a Liturgical Composer in Corpus Christi, TX:

What if I told you that clicking a button would show you a Catholic website that contains (among other things) newly composed Catholic Responsorial Psalm scores based on Gregorian chant with Organ/Vocalist scores for the entire Catholic Liturgical year ??

And what if I further told you that these are offered ** COMPLETELY * FREE * OF * CHARGE ** to anyone who wants them, and the PDF scores can be downloaded *instantly *without even a login ??

* If I told you this, would you take five seconds to go check out the website, download PDF scores, and listen to the mp3 samples??*

* Guess what? It is true!!! No joke, and * absolutely * no strings attached.*

Here is the site

. . . and here are free Mass Parts for organ and voice:

*Who in the world would provide such a thing for absolutely no cost?*

Corpus Christi Watershed would !!! We are a 501(c)3 non-profit Catholic Institute dedicated to promoting the Catholic arts. Watershed Liturgical composer Jeff Ostrowski has composed more than 850 scores since August of 2007, and all offered online completely free of charge.

The project has been praised and recommended by several famous clerics, including two Bishops and Fr. George Rutler.

Here are two articles which explain the project in greater detail:

Finally, to show the compositional techniques employed to create this truly Sacred Music (which Pope Benedict wrote about when he was still Cardinal Ratzinger), please see this article:

If you want to learn more about me, please view this.

May Christ bless you 100,000 times for your kindness.

Meanwhile, somebody else sends me links recommending these:





Now you know!

There's a new search engine which looks like it will be trying to compete against the googlemonster. So far, it looks pretty kewl. The interface is certainly different than the standard Google / Yahoo model - it's more like iTunes and it's entirely flash based. Know your audience, right?

In any case, you might check out the site: Searchme Visual Search - Beta. Note the narrowability at the top...by blog, Christianity, music, etc., depending on the search you do...

In any case, just thought you folks might be interested.

*HT to Danielle Bean

UPDATE: Odd. I'm the very first hit for "free catholic mp3", but I can't find my site with the search for "catholic mp3". Wait...nope...there I am...I'm about 100 deep. I'm about #6 on google. I wonder how their algorithm is constructed. Oh well, I'm sure it's a trade secret...

Here's some new material from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Having attended a few ISI lectures, I can say firsthand that this is a great program and that their lecturers are of the highest caliber. Do give them a listen

	The Spirit of Capitalism: Why Weber Was Wrong About The Commercial Society — NEW Samuel Gregg The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 3/12/2008	Flash MP3
	Ben Franklin and the Traditions of American Diplomacy — NEW Harvey Sicherman Wilmington, DE 3/6/2008	Flash MP3
	Transforming Business: Enterprise, Ethics, and the Elimination of Poverty — NEW Peter Heslam Flint McGlaughlin The Hardvard Club, New York, NY 3/4/2008	Flash MP3
	Does Globalization Trump Culture?: The Future of Music In a Flat World — NEW Tyler Cowen Georgetown University, Washington, DC 2/26/2008	Flash MP3
	Are Unions Destroying American Education? — NEW Peter Brimelow Richard Kahlenberg Ohio State University, OH 2/12/2008 From ISI's Cicero's Podium: A Great Issues Debate Series.	Flash MP3
	Coincidentally: Unserious Reflections on Trivial Connections — NEW Fr. George Rutler, Pastor, Church of Our Saviour, New York City, NY Wilmington, DE 1/31/2008	Flash MP3
	It Takes a Family to Raise a Village: The Social Significance of the Family for the Free Society — NEW Jennifer Morse, Senior Research Fellow, Acton Institute UCLA School of Law, LosAngeles, CA 1/30/2008	Flash MP3 PDF
	America: Republic or Empire? — NEW Michael P. Federici James R. Stoner, Jr., Professor of Political Science, Louisiana State University Georgetown University, Marriot Georgetown Conference Center, Washington, DC 1/29/2008	MP3
	How to Put Your Soul on Ice: Freedom and Autonomy in Dante's Divine Comedy — NEW Anthony Esolen ISI's F.M. Kirby Campus 12/6/2007	Flash MP3
	Wendell Berry's Unlikely Case for Conservative Christianity — NEW Darryl Hart, Director of Academic Programs, ISI Seelbach Hotel, Louisville, KY 11/20/2007	MP3

From A Catholic iPod:

Raymond Arroyo of EWTN’s The World Over exclusive interview with President George Bush. This is the only interview that he granted in advance of the Papal visit.
Click to Listen, Right Click to download MP3.

I've been looking for MP3 versions of his talks last week. Here's the first I've found:



The Pope's Speech to the U.N.

I'm really looking forward to this. If you like what you hear, be sure to check out her blog, The Dawn Patrol.



Sex can bring pleasure -- but does it bring joy? Why would a 31-year old unmarried rock journalist in New York City embrace chastity? Dawn was a columnist for Salon, Billboard, and Mojo, and she is now the deputy news editor at the New York Daily News. After a dramatic conversion to Christian faith in 1999, Dawn traded the incessant pursuit of gratification for the thrill of chastity. For Dawn, chastity is not simply a ?no? to sex, but a ?yes? to living out all the graces one has been given by God as a human being made in God?s image. Dawn is the author of The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On (2007). She will speak, followed by a question and answer period.

From Choir Chant - go there for the MP3 downloads:

Chrysostomos - choir of the Bratislava Byzantine Catholic Parish

The prophets above: (Svyše prorocy:) - theotokion at the bishops vesting at the beginning of the hierarchical divine liturgy. M. Balakirev (1836-1910).
(3:16; 44,1 kHz joint stereo average 128 kbit/s; 3062 kb) in Church Slavonic

Save Your people, o Lord: - troparion of Exaltation of the Holy Cross (the feast of the church), Tone 1, Carpathian chant (arrangement for mixed choir by Martin Skoviera).
(0:48; 44,1 kHz joint stereo average 128 kbit/s; 762 kb) in Slovak

Trisagion (Svjatyj Bože:) - thrice-holy hymn. J. Bokšaj (1874-1940), from the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, 1911.
(4:02; 44,1 kHz joint stereo average 128 kbit/s; 3778 kb) in Church Slavonic

Prokimenon of the feast of Exaltation of the Holy Cross and for Friday, Tone 7, Carpathian chant (arrangement for mixed choir by Martin Skoviera).
(1:39; 44,1 kHz joint stereo average 128 kbit/s; 1556 kb) in Slovak

Alleluia - with verses before the reading of the Gospel on the divine liturgy. S. Mokranjac (1865-1914).
(1:20; 44,1 kHz joint stereo average 128 kbit/s; 1252 kb) in Church Slavonic

Cherubic hymn (Iže cheruvimy:) - sung at the Divine Liturgy during the Great Entrance. N. Rimskij-Korsakov (1844-1908), Cherubic hymn No. 4 G-major, op. posth.
(4:13; 44,1 kHz joint stereo average 128 kbit/s; 3956 kb) in Church Slavonic

O Lord, let the light: - communion hymn of Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Tone 1, Carpathian chant (arrangement for mixed choir by Martin Skoviera).
(3:44; 44,1 kHz joint stereo average 128 kbit/s; 3502 kb) in Slovak

Let our mouths be filled: (Da ispolňatsja:) - thanksgiving hymn after the communion. Carpathian chant (arrangement for mixed choir by Martin Skoviera).
(1:25; 44,1 kHz joint stereo average 128 kbit/s; 1330 kb) in Church Slavonic

O Lord, You willed: (Razbojnika blahorazumnaho:) - exapostilarion of Great Friday. It is sung at the matins of Great Friday - Holy Passions. M. Starickij (1840-1904).
(1:48; 44,1 kHz joint stereo average 128 kbit/s; 1702 kb) in Slovak

Your resurrection: - introductory chant at the Paschal Matins and sticheira of the Tone 6 at the Vesper on Saturday evening. Carpathian chant (arrangement for mixed choir by Martin Skoviera).
(1:51; 44,1 kHz joint stereo average 128 kbit/s; 1746 kb) in Slovak

Polychronion - Many years: (Mnohaja ľita:) - final chant wishing many years (God's blessing) that is sung after various services. Carpathian chant (arrangement for mixed choir by Christopher Stanichar).
(1:27; 44,1 kHz joint stereo average 128 kbit/s; 1374 kb) in Church Slavonic

This pieces are borrowed from the CD ”Slava vo vyšnich Bohu - Sláva na výsostiach Bohu”, recorded 2004, by the kind permision of the choir. The CD contains 32 pieces.

From Spirit Catholic Radio in Nebraska comes a series of programs from perhaps the foremost patristics scholar in America today. Mike Aquilina's work has been rather exhaustive and he's exceedingly good at making the early Fathers accessible. If you've ever been confronted by someone who claims that the Early Church wasn't Catholic or that the Catholic Church was invented by Constantine (ala Dan Brown), be sure to be prepared by having listened to at least a few of these programs.

Mike is author or editor of more than a dozen books on Catholic history, doctrine, and devotion. He is vice president of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology based in Steubenville, Ohio.