Music & the Spoken Word Library

Beginning Anew – Sunday, January 20, 1980

Oh divine Redeemer…turn me not away…grant me pardon and…remember not my sins… oh divine Redeemer. 1

Homesickness – Sunday, January 13, 1980

Of all the sicknesses which afflict man, homesickness is at once the easiest to contract and the most difficult to cure. For we can be...

A Light For This Year – Sunday, January 06, 1980

The turn of a decade, perhaps even more than the turn of a year, is a time for reflection, a summing up of where we've...

Where one door shuts, another opens… – Sunday, January 01, 1960

There is maxim quoted in Don Quixote which this day somehow suggests: "Where one door shuts, another opens. . .."1 We come to an end...

The essence of all that Christmas is – Sunday, December 25, 1960

We have spoken before of the several sides of this season.  But beyond all else, all the festivities, all the gathering of families and friends,...

Home—and Christmas – Sunday, December 18, 1960

What can one say for a season where so much is intermixed?  There is thoughtfulness for others, but a thoughtfulness preoccupied with a bustling of...

What takes our time – Sunday, December 11, 1960

Last week we talked of the waste of worshiping the average, and that the average is neither an absolute nor an ideal and is not...

The average: not the absolute nor ideal – Sunday, December 04, 1960

Last week we closed with this comment: "Man is obviously made to think.  It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole...

…to think as he ought… – Sunday, November 27, 1960

Today we should like somewhat to summarize our subject of some weeks on our responsibility for all the thoughts we think, for our actions and...