Benny and Chesterton Morning Show Podcast - Easter Parade With Jack - What I Saw in America - Evil City - Truth About Education

Two fun Jack Benny Easter Parade Shows from 1949 and 1953 plus Chesterton's What I Saw in America

Jack Benny Easter Show Podcast - Easter at the Circus - Ah Wilderness

Two great Family Easter shows with Jack and the gang from 1936 and 1938

Quiet Please - Shadow of the Wings - Easter Show

 A very ill and bedridden child is watched over by a presence just out of her sight, that casts a shadow and never speaks, but she knows he's there, and no one believes her 

Easter Family Comedy Podcast - Great Gildersleeve - Ozzie and Harriet - Phil Harris - Alice Fay Show

Great Gildersleeve -  1952 Easter Sunrise Service

Phil Harris - Alice Fay Show - The Easter Bunny - 1950

Ozzie and Harriet - 1949 Easter Show

On The Resurrection - Fragments of the Lost Work of Saint Justin Martyr

From The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus - Philip Schaff

Originally printed in 1885, the ten-volume set, Ante-Nicene Fathers, brings together the work of early Christian thinkers. In particular, it brings together the writings of the early Church fathers prior to the fourth century Nicene Creed. These volumes are noteworthy for their inclusion of entire texts, and not simply fragments or excerpts from these great writings. The translations are fairly literal, providing both readers and scholars with a good approximation of the originals. This particular volume contains works by St. Clement, Mathetes, St. Polycarp, St. Ignatius, Barnabas, St. Papias, St. Justin Martyr, and St. Irenaeus. These writings were heavily influential on the early Church, and for good reason, as they are inspirational and encouraging. These volumes also come with many useful notes, providing the reader with new levels of understanding. Overall, Ante-Nicene Fathers, or any part of it, is a welcome addition to one's reading list. 

The Death and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ - Commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew - St. John Chrysostom

 Homilies 65 though 67 of St John Chrysostom's commentary on the Holy Gospel according to St Matthew, which include the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ 

65: Mt 20: 17-28

66: Mt 20: 29-21:11

67: Mt 21:12-32

 An examination of, and meditation upon, the seven sayings spoken by Jesus on the cross -- aka "the seven last words" -- as well as the associated total solar eclipse. Every saying is examined from different perspectives, each intended to make the reader think more deeply about Jesus' life and death and feel the sayings' applications to his own life. The writer also provides various suggestions for enriching one's faith life and doing good.

St. Robert Bellarmine was a famous and controversial figure, deeply involved in the Counter-Reformation, apologetics, theological disputes, and the development of legal theory. His work eventually provided the natural law underpinnings for the American Revolution. After his retirement, he wrote several devotional books for normal people which became international bestsellers, including this 

Prologue

First Word: Father, Forgive Them, For They Know Not What They Do: Literal Meaning

first Fruit to be Drawn from Consideration of the First Word

Second Fruit of the First Word

Second Word: Amen I say to thee, this day thou shalt be with Me in Paradise

First Fruit of the Second Word

Second Fruit of the Second Word

Third Fruit of the Second WOrd

Third Word: Behold they son - Behold they Mother

Classical Gilbert Podcast - Holy Thursday - Gregorian Chant 

i. Introit: Nos Autem

ii. Gradual: Christus

iii. Offertory: Dextera Domini

iv. Communion: Dominus Jesus

v: Antiphon: Ubi Caritas

Benedictine Monks of Solesmes

 Antonio Vivaldi wrote a set of six sonatas for cello and continuo, written between 1720 and 1730, and published in Paris in 1740 by Leclerc and Boivin. These sonatas were published without an opus number; sometimes they are improperly called op. 14. In addition to this publication, Vivaldi wrote at least four other cello sonatas. The manuscripts of two of these are kept in the library of the conservatories of Naples, and another is kept in the castle of Wiesentheid. One sonata in D minor (RV 38) has been lost. 

 The Markets of Paris is a remarkable work, and is the one which Zola calls his very best novel, and of which he is far more proud than of any others in his Rougon-Marquart series – prouder than of L’Assommoir. It must have been in his early manhood, when poor and friendless, he lived among the people, that much of the information which makes these pages so startlingly vivid, was acquired. How many mornings, long before dawn, must he have visited these markets – how many hours and days must he have spent there, to have mastered the habits, manners and ways of these people, who are a class by themselves, and of whom we do not lose sight, from the beginning to the end of the book. He introduces us to the Parisian charcutier – the cook shop – and in La Belle Lina, the mistress of the establishment, we find the sister of Gervaise, the woman who stirred the depths of our hearts with pity, in L’Assommoir. In truth The Markets of Paris stands as utterly alone in modern French literature, as it is distinct and apart, from any other work even by Zola himself. It is a book for all to read. - Summary by Carolin