Audiobooks to Light Your Way
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Books in Production or Now Available
We are proud to produce the following spiritual reading books in audiobook format.
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Scatter My Darkness
Turning Night to Day with the Gospel
by Fr. John Henry Hanson, O. Praem.
with a Foreword by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke
Narration by Elizabeth Moschetto
Do I have dark places in my life?
Why are these dark places present, and will they overcome me?
How can Christ’s love and grace dissipate this darkness?
In his newest spiritual life book, Fr. John Henry Hanson helps us to understand the alienation that comes from sin and the redeeming power of Christ. He shows us how, through the beauty of the Liturgy, the dark corners of our hearts encounter and embrace the light of Christ, perhaps for the first time.
“The light of Christ is cleansing grace for the soul,” says Fr. John Henry. With light comes hope, “and that hope is the light that will guide our walk from darkness to light, from this side of the veil to the place where Christ dwells in glory.”
AUDIOBOOK PRODUCTION STATUS: Expected release September 2024 on all your favorite listening platforms!
Seven Prophets and the Culture War,
Undoing the Philosophies of a World in Crisis
by Alexandre Havard
Narration by Leon Griesbach
Three of the seven “prophets” presented in this book—Descartes,Rousseau, and Nietzsche—provoked or facilitated, through their intellectual activity, great upheavals.
The others—Pascal, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Soloviev— predicted these very upheavals but showed us the way to overcome them.
If we study all seven of these philosophers in depth, we will have an easier time grasping the essence and origin of the universal drama now unfolding before our eyes and we will make wise and courageous choices for a better future.
Alex Havard walks us through the hills and valleys of recent history: the philosophical pitfalls embraced by the world, and the transcendent values and virtues that will help us overcome them.
This book is our way forward, as a collective community—a way to understand where the intellectual confusion began, so that we may find our way out of it.
PRODUCTION STATUS: RELEASED 1/1/2024 on your favorite audiobook platforms, including Audible, Chirp, Scribd, Apple Books, GooglePlay, audiobooks.com, and more!
In the School of the Holy Spirit
by Jacques Philippe
Narration by Michael V. Shannon
In the prayer lives of many Christians, there is one person of the Trinity that often goes overlooked - The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is no less involved in our lives than the Father and the Son, yet many are unaware of this. Jesus said about the Holy Spirit, "If I go, I will send you another Comforter." But are we aware of the Holy Spirit in our lives?
In the School of the Holy Spirit, by retreat master Jacques Philippe, will lead you to be more attentive to the movements of the Holy Spirit in your life as you learn to value the third person of the Trinity as the Sanctifier of your soul. Philippe explains the rewards of being attentive to the Holy Spirit and provides simple and concrete ways to grow in this inner sensitivity.
In his clear and simple style, he illustrates his points with many examples from modern life. The book can be a valuable aid in your spiritual journey.
PRODUCTION STATUS: Released May 2024. Available on Audible, Apple Books, Chirp, audiobooks.com, ScribD and all your favorite audiobook platforms.
A Man Who Knew How to Forgive
Incidents from the Life of St. Josemaría Escrivá
by Francesc Faus
Narration by Michael V. Shannon
Forgiving is no easy task: in fact, it may be the most difficult endeavor one can undertake. St. Josemaría Escrivá, the founder of Opus Dei, said, “I didn’t need to learn how to forgive, because God has taught me how to love.” Still, even this saint struggled with the trying task of forgiving. This collection of anecdotes from his life explores his experiences in offering and accepting forgiveness.
Life as a priest in the midst of the violent Spanish Civil War offered St. Josemaría countless opportunities to practice forgiveness. Owing to an attitude of prayer, mortification, and total confidence in God, he was as immediate and resolute in forgiving in dramatic situations as he was in the ordinary circumstances of everyday life. He knew when a situation necessitated silence, and was always prompt in offering an apology when he found himself in the wrong. Readers will find themselves equally amazed and humbled by the gentle charity that contributed to Josemaría’s sainthood.
In addition to anecdotes from St. Josemaría Escrivá's life, this powerful introduction to forgiveness includes a biography of St. Josemaría, an explanation of the message of Opus Dei, and excerpts from remarks by Pope (now Saint) John Paul II at the canonization of St. Josemaría and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) at the beatification of Josemaría Escrivá.
PRODUCTION STATUS: Available on your favorite audiobook platforms, including Audible, Chirp, Scribd, Apple Books, GooglePlay, audiobooks.com, and more!
Coached By Joan of Arc, Lessons in Virtuous Leadership
by Alexandre Havard
Narration by Françoise Nahas and Michael V. Shannon
Coached by Joan of Arc book is a dialogue between the reader and Joan of Arc, the woman Mark Twain called “easily and by far the most extraordinary person the human race has ever produced.”
As we explore her virtue-infused life, this astonishingly modern woman takes us by the hand, coaches us, whispers wise advice and lessons in noble leadership in our ear. Far from being anachronistic, her way of life and virtuous example is eternally new, for she follows precepts that are above human weakness.
Joan is for all of us – men and women of today, living and working in the midst of the world. She is for us all a coach, a mother, and an excellent teacher of the elevated, virtuous, and courageous life.
PRODUCTION STATUS: Available on Audible, Apple Books, Chirp, audiobooks.com, ScribD and all your favorite audiobook platforms.
Overcoming Lukewarmness, Healing Your Soul's Sadness
by Francis Fernández-Carvajal
Narration by Joan Mary Holmer
We are all prone to a sleepiness of the soul. That raging fire of love that was once within dwindles slowly, often extinguishing without notice. Like an unknown cancer, this spreading toxin clouds your reasoning and enfeebles your will. Your spirit feels somehow empty and your joy becomes fleeting if not faded.
What can you do?
Like any relationship of love, the soul's friendship with God must always be reinvented, refreshed, and renewed. When the honeymoon is over, the real work begins.
This brilliant volume—fully revised and remastered by the author—will help you to squelch that silent poison within: lukewarmness. From the creator of the internationally best-selling In Conversation with God series, this indispensable guide on overcoming lukewarmness can truly change your life. Learn how to defeat the “noonday devil”—that sluggish tepidity within—by rekindling the incomparable joy of following Christ.
You will find that an unwavering cheerfulness will begin to pervade every area of your being and that what once was dying will be filled with life: the life of true love.
PRODUCTION STATUS: Available on Audible, Apple Books, Chirp, audiobooks.com, ScribD and all your favorite audiobook platforms.
Visions of Purgatory: A Private Revelation
by Anonymous
Narration by John G. Shank
Visions of Purgatory: A Private Revelation offers a surprisingly sober and clear account of purgatory that offers more consolation than fear before this great mystery of God’s mercy. Translated from French, the text was written in the latter half of the twentieth century by an anonymous author and contains a private revelation of purgatory with annotations from the Magisterium of the Church and the teachings of the saints, above all St. Thomas Aquinas.
It is organized into three parts: the first part explains the role of private revelations and how to gain profit from them; the second part contains doctrinal teachings that form a kind of treatise on purgatory; the third and final part is dedicated to revelations of souls in purgatory. Details concerning the life of the author have been omitted in order to maintain the author’s anonymity.
PRODUCTION STATUS: Available on your favorite audiobook platforms, including Audible, Chirp, Scribd, Apple Books, GooglePlay, audiobooks.com, and more!
Blessed Guadalupe Ortiz de Landázuri
by Mercedes Eguíbar Galarza
Narration by Brenda Royden
A biography about Blessed Guadalupe Ortiz de Landázuri who was beatified on May 18, 2019 in Madrid. Guadalupe was one of the first women in Opus Dei. She obtained a chemistry degree in 1939 after the Spanish Civil War. She later met St. Josemaria and joined Opus Dei.
Her desire to love God was the driving force behind everything she did and overflowed through her love for others and her contagious cheerfulness.
This biography gives a glimpse of the most important aspects and characteristics of this pioneering woman.
STATUS: Released to Edizione Ares (Milan, Italy) for distribution.
Thomas More, A Portrait of Courage
by Gerard B. Wegemer
Narration by Michael V. Shannon
“Thomas More is more important at this moment than at any moment since his death, even perhaps the great moment of his dying; but he is not quite so important as he will be in about a hundred years’ time.” – G. K. Chesterton, 1929
One of history’s most admired figures and one of the great lawyers and statesmen of all time, Thomas More was also an exemplary husband, father, and friend and possessed the detachment and interior peace of a saint. He thus emerged from the first great crisis of modern tyranny—a crisis that would claim his life—as the model of a truly free man, whose conscience and character no despot can subvert. More was canonized in 1935, as Hitler was rising to power and the world needed an example of courage and skill in the face of the greatest of dangers.
This biography reveals how More prepared himself for the challenges of his life, and how he rose to the demands placed upon him in what became one of history’s most revolutionary periods.
PRODUCTION STATUS: Available on your favorite audiobook platforms, including Audible, Chirp, Scribd, Apple Books, GooglePlay, audiobooks.com, and more!
The Bishop of the Abandoned Tabernacle
by Victoria Schneider
Narration by Richard Willing
St. Manuel Gonzalez Garcia felt called to the priesthood at the age of 12. After his ordination in 1901, he was sent to preach at a church which he found to be unclean and abandoned. There, praying before a Tabernacle covered in dust and cobwebs, with torn altar cloths and oil dripping onto the floor from the sanctuary lamp, he decided to dedicate his life to providing for Jesus’ needs in the Tabernacle. This poor, abandoned Tabernacle taught the young priest more about the Love of Jesus than his years of theological study. It marked his entire life from that moment. He dedicated himself until his death to spreading devotion to the Eucharist, proclaiming these words which he would go on to choose for his epitaph: “Jesus is here! He is here! Do not abandon Him!” This saintly bishop will help you to receive Holy Communion more fervently and to love Jesus more deeply in Eucharistic Adoration. This book will awaken you to a new experience of Our Lord — that you may see, hear, love, and console “Love who is not loved.”
STATUS: Available on your favorite audiobook platforms, including Audible, Chirp, Scribd, Apple Books, GooglePlay, audiobooks.com, and more!
Dora del Hoyo, A Lighted Lamp
by Javier Medina
Narration by Edwina Maksym
Dora del Hoyo was Opus Dei’s first Assistant Numerary when she asked to be admitted in 1946. She was a lighted lamp for all those who lived, worked, or come in touch with her. Her influence now continues to spread around the world as we get to know the story of this remarkable woman. In love with Christ, with Opus Dei, and with her work, she died youthful and happy, a day short of her ninetieth birthday. Dora del Hoyo’s Cause of Canonization began in 2012. This biography tells her story and relates a few of the many favors people from around the world have received through her intercession.
STATUS: Available on your favorite audiobook platforms, including Audible, Chirp, Scribd, Apple Books, GooglePlay, audiobooks.com, and more!
Interior Freedom: Experiencing The Freedom Of The Children of God
by Fr. Jacques Philippe
Narration by Michael V. Shannon
In his book “Interior Freedom” Fr. Jacques Phillipe shows us that we possess, each of us, inside of us a space of freedom that no-one can take away. Despite the most unfavorable outward circumstances, we can claim our freedom because God is its source and its guarantee. Without this, we will always be in search for something else to fulfill us, and we will never understand true happiness.
Written in a simple and inviting style, Interior Freedom seeks to liberate the heart and mind to live the true freedom to which God calls each of us.
STATUS: Available on your favorite audiobook platforms, including Audible, Chirp, Scribd, Apple Books, GooglePlay, audiobooks.com, and more!
Guadalupe, The Freedom of Loving
by Cristina Abad Cadenas
Narration by Brenda Royden
It often happens that a call to holiness and devotion to Christ touches the heart amidst immense suffering. A young girl named Guadalupe experienced such a call while living through the trials of her family and country as a result of the Spanish Civil War.
Guadalupe Ortiz, the first woman of Opus Dei to be beatified, had a style of sanctity that attracted others. She was known as determined, joyful, and a source of peaceful strength. As one of the earliest woman members of Opus Dei, she took seriously her calling to bring the love of Christ to her work and her daily life.
Her relatability is what makes her remarkable. As an individual often faced with challenges, a dedicated scientist and teacher, and a devoted friend and daughter, we can all identify with the stories and themes that make up her beautiful life.
STATUS: Available on your favorite audiobook platforms, including Audible, Chirp, Scribd, Apple Books, GooglePlay, audiobooks.com, and more!
Fire & Light Learning to Receive the Gift of God
by Jacques Philippe
Narration by Michael V. Shannon
In a series of essays linked by his examination into key areas of spiritual growth, Fr. Jacques Philippe develops themes relating to prayer, freedom, the Holy Eucharist, and man’s constant struggle for contentment amid the stresses of everyday life. Through spiritual insights of amazing women of the Church—Etty Hillesum, Thérèse of Lisieux, and Teresa of Avila—Fr. Jacque’s essays examine topics such as:
- • Why look for interior peace?
- • Knowing God through Mary
- • Touching God through prayer
- • The theological virtues and the Eucharist
STATUS: Now available on your favorite audiobook platforms, including Audible, Chirp, Scribd, Apple Books, GooglePlay, audiobooks.com, and more!
LOVE is changed not ended, A Dozen stories
by Joe Babendreier
Narration by John G. Shank
When you lose a loved one, what should you expect?
Are they simply gone, never to come back?
A dozen stories will help you get a feel for what's possible.
No Small Goals, The Life of Dr. Ernesto Cofiño
by Thomas A. McDonough
Narration by Stephen P. Libera
This book tells the story of a Guatemalan-born doctor who, after obtaining an excellent medical education in Paris, returned to his native land to serve its people through his medical practice. In spite of obstacles that include political strife, and social and economic challenges, he remained faithful to his land and people through his work as a doctor It is an extraordinary lesson on how one’s ordinary work can be converted into a tool of service and improvement for all of society.
Dr. Ernesto’s cause of holiness is now underway.
STATUS: IN PRODUCTION. We know you're waiting for this beautiful book! Expected release: October 2024.
Deus Caritas Est (God is Love)
Encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI
Narration by Damian von Stauffenberg
“God, infinite light, whose incommensurable mystery had been intuited by the Greek philosopher, this God has a human face and – we can add – a human heart…. God’s eros is not only a primordial cosmic force, it is love that has created man and that bends before him, as the Good Samaritan bent before the wounded man, victim of thieves, who was lying on the side of the road that went from Jerusalem to Jericho. Today the word “love” is so tarnished, so spoiled and so abused, that one is almost afraid to pronounce it with one’s lips…. And yet it is a primordial word, expression of the primordial reality; we cannot simply abandon it, we must take it up again, purify it and give back to it its original splendor so that it might illuminate our life and lead it on the right path. This awareness led me to choose love as the theme of my first encyclical.” (December 25, 2005)
Mulieris Dignitatem (On the Dignity and Vocation of Women)
Apostolic Letter of Pope St. John Paul II
Narration by Kate Todd
Mulieris Dignitatem made history in 1998 as the first letter of its kind entirely dedicated to the subject of women, their essential gifts and the dilemmas women face. These problems exist even today — in the year 2020. Pope John Paul II defends the equality of women, the vocation to love, and the mutual submission of husbands and wives. He highlights Jesus’s modeling of how to treat women, the significance of Jesus’s Mother for Christians today, and the nature of the relationship between Christ and His Church.
STATUS: IN PRODUCTION