PODCAzT – Voices of the Fathers 01 – The Scillitan Martyrs

NOTA BENE: I’m in a process of rebuilding.  All my podcasts… gone… from 2007 onward.  I have the original recordings, or most of them.  But all the links, embeds are dead.   I’ve had some notes from you readers that you can’t find things that I recorded.  So, I’m asking my Guardian Angel to help me with patience.  This is extremely painful for me.

I’ll start by reposting the few Voices of the Fathers that I’ve already made.  Then I’ll make a new one of those and get on to a News of the Church episode.  Since they are rather ephemeral, I won’t repost those.

I’m sorry.

I need someone who really understands well the various podcasting platforms.

Some old podcasts are preserved on APPLE HERE

Originally posted on: Jan 7, 2026

I was recently going through some old books and found a slim volume entitled The Osterley Selection from the Latin Fathers, edited by Joseph Crehan of Heythrop College, was compiled chiefly for seminarians, especially late vocations, at Campion College, Osterley, a Jesuit formation house in the Archdiocese of Westminster that closed in 2004. The 1949 preface praises the great classical authors—Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Virgil—yet insists that Christian writing shows a different kind of beauty. Pagans, it says, wrote with studied grace; Christians with passionate conviction. The volume includes selections from Ambrose and Augustine, Tertullian, Vincent of Lérins, Jerome, and others.

It occurred to me that I might offer a podcast of the first reading and see how it goes.   Some of you get Patristic readings in the office of readings in the Liturgy of the Hours but do you hear them?  That’s another question.  There are 42 brief readings in the book by authors whom you will more than likely recognize.    I propose to read an English translation, make some comments and read the Latin.