Catholic Roundup

I mentioned last week that I’m a volunteer reader for Librivox.org, recording public domain audiobooks. For a while I’ve been participating in a project to record Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, a 1904 adaptation of all the stories in the Bible for young children. The text for the story can be found at the Baldwin Project, a site dedicated to “Bringing yesterday’s classics to today’s children”. The first 3 volumes of Librivox recordings of Hurlbut’s story of the bible can be found here:

Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman. “Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible Part One” ·

Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman. “Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible Part Two” ·

Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman. “Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible Part Three” ·

Tonight I recorded 3 sections for volume 4 (Click on the blue arrow to play or right click the link and Save File as to download it to your computer): 

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So grab a cup of tea and curl up on the couch under a fuzzy blanket. It’s story time.

For a couple of years, I have been a volunteer reader for Librivox.org. Librivox is an online project that has an amazing mission statement: “To make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet.” Over a 1500 volunteers all over the world have contributed recordings to over 1000 completed audiobooks. To be recorded for Librivox, books must be in the public domain in the United States, which usually means published earlier than 1923. There are audiobooks of all kinds and genres at librivox. There are a number of volunteers who have recorded a great deal of classic Christian and Catholic works. Here is the results of a search for “religion” on the LibriVox Catalog. You can find recordings of several translations of the bible, some writings of early Church Fathers, and writings of some of the Saints.

Here are a few suggestions to get you started.

Lawrence, Brother. “Practice of the Presence of God, The” ·

Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint. “On Loving God” ·

[Latin] Biblia Sacra Vulgata. “Bible (Biblia Sacra Vulgata) 19: Psalmi XXII” ·

Chesterton, G.K.. “Heretics”

This summer, one of our active volunteers found a century old book of bible stories for children entitled Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible. We are slowly working our way through the Old Testament. I have recorded several chapters for each volume of Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible.

Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman. “Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible Part One” ·

Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman. “Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible Part Two” ·

Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman. “Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible Part Three” ·

Last year, perhaps as his lenten project, Sean McKinley recorded Jewett, Sophie. “God’s Troubadour, The Story of St. Francis of Assisi”. This is a good introduction to the life of St. Francis for families with young children.