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Patristic MP3s and Podcasts

Last week I was traveling a little with my buddy Joe the Jaw Doctor. He likes to listen to the Church Fathers as he drives to and from surgery. As he rushes from the car to the O.R., he moves from the sublime to the maxillofacial. If you, too, are wired for sound and fond of the Fathers, check out this list of online sources of free and easy listening.

* Maria Lectrix is the hostess with the mostest. She packs Irenaeus, Ephrem, Prudentius, Ignatius, all smoothly delivered by a smart and sympathetic reader.

* You can grab MP3s of Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho right here.

* An outfit called Dead White Guys also runs Justin, and serves up St. Patrick as well.

* This humble blog carries an audio page with three longish talks about the Fathers, supplemented by many radio interviews, all by Yours Truly. I should be adding more material in the next few days. I just taped, for example, a couple of podcasts of The Weekly Roman Observer, but they’re not up on iTunes yet. I’ll let you know as they emerge.

Meantime, listen up! Your Fathers are speaking to you.