Audiobooks narrated by Kennedy Hall

The Only Solution to the Self-Help Problem

Many books have been written on the contemporary crisis of fatherhood, but most of them treat symptoms without identifying the underlying cause of the disease. In The Only Solution to the Self-Help Problem Roy Metter exposes the root of the crisis as a failure to acknowledge the truth about God and creation which results in man’s failure to live in a right relationship with God and his fellow man. May this book help a multitude of readers to know the truth that sets men free from sin and selfishness to achieve the purpose for which they were created. - Hugh Owen, Director, Kolbe Center for the Study of the Creation In The Only Solution to the Self-Help Problem Roy Metter lays bare the emptiness of the contemporary self-help literature that has led many men to build their lives on a false foundation. With logic and clarity, the author demonstrates that man can only find true happiness by fulfilling the purpose for which he was created, by cooperating with the grace of God in the Catholic Church and following her traditional liturgies and morals. What happens in the sanctuary determines what happens in the world. - Lawrence Carney, Author of The Secret of the Holy Face: The Devotion Destined to Save Society Modern Man has lost his roots; he has lost his traditions and culture; and as a result, he has lost his mind. ‘Self-help’ gurus have stepped into fill the void, but their supposed wisdom only goes so far and is lacking in a complete telos. In the book, Roy Metters offers us the solution to the modern self-help fad which has enwrapped the masses, even many Catholics. The true “self-help” plan is a plan of holiness rooted in the Faith of All Time. Roy’s book serves as a great antidote to this distinctly modern problem, and should be required reading. - Kennedy Hall, Host of Mere Tradition and Best Selling Author

Roy Metter (Author), Kennedy Hall (Narrator)

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The Practice of Humility: 60 Lessons on the Virtue of Virtues

This golden treatise on The Practice of Humility, edited by TAN, from the pen of the Sovereign Pontiff Pope Leo XIII, comes as a revelation and lifts the veil which hitherto has concealed from view the long years of his comparative seclusion spent in Perugia. It shows us the work divine grace was achieving in his heart during that time of his “hidden life” of unconscious preparation for the tiara, and it teaches us the school in which his grand character and lofty genius were formed and mellowed. While delineating the humility which those aspiring to perfection should aim at, it in reality presents us with a beautiful portrait of the Holy Father himself and brings us in touch with his very spirit. The Practice of Humility teaches you to lay the foundations of Christian perfection.

Pope Leo Xiii (Author), Kennedy Hall (Narrator)

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Slaying Dragons II - The Rise of the Occult: What Exorcists & Former Occultists Want You to Know

For even the casual observer, it is evident that the world, nearly as a whole, is unmoored from obedience to Almighty God. The number of sins, many of which “cry to Heaven for vengeance,” which saturate the culture and the personal lives of the common man are legion, both in their breadth and in their diabolical quality. This spiritual depravity has invited, into the light of day, the Enemy who has always been working in darkness. The Rise of the Occult presents to the reader an analysis of this emergence of the Enemy, in which Satan has found it to be the time to stir men back to idolatry, superstition, and ritualized hedonism. Witchcraft, Wicca, magic, Satanism, the New Age, astrology, Yoga, manifesting, and all of its countless variations are captivating the minds of modern men for whom the One True God has either been hidden or has been dismissed in favor of the annihilation of morality. It is this moral autonomy, in which man is “free” to “do as thou wilt,” which is the calling card of all forms of occult practice. In The Rise of the Occult, by the author of the best-selling spiritual warfare book, Slaying Dragons: What Exorcists See & What We Should Know, the reader will learn: - Where is the occult present in the culture today? - How is the occult luring people, especially the youth, to embrace it? - What are the real dangers of even minor dabbling in occult practices? - Are demons truly active in all forms of occult practice, even witchcraft? - How does a person escape the prison which the demons create for occultists? These questions, and more, will be answered as the reader hears from former occultists, priests (exorcists and pastors) who have helped them, families who have lost children or parents to the occult, and those who have seen the evil spread of the occult amidst their daily activities.

Charles D. Fraune (Author), Kennedy Hall (Narrator)

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Confessions of St. Augustine of Hippo

Of all the autobiographies ever written by mere mortals, Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo is the greatest. In this masterpiece, you will find a doctor of the Church longing for the true Doctor of the soul, Christ. Taking us from Augustine’s roots in Africa to his encounters with his spiritual father Saint Ambrose in Milan, from his battle against his concupiscence to his famed conversion, Confessions is itself a veritable pilgrimage to the threshold of the new Jerusalem. Indeed, its end is not biography but a breathtaking meditation on time and memory, on the human soul and the material world, and on the creative and redemptive power of God himself. In Dr. Anthony Esolen’s new translation, the esteemed translator and author seeks to retain and reveal the figurative by hewing as closely as possible to the literal, both in the significance of individual words and in the manner of the author’s expression. Confessions is a work of literary art, “one of the most stupendous ever wrought,” he says, immensely rich in insights, and intricate in its returning, again and again, to the questions of a soul in search of truth and of answers ready to be found, if we will only seek, and ask, and knock. Confessions is like no other book you will ever read. According to Dr. Esolen, “The Confessions is one continued and coherent prayer, a profound profession of faith, and a plea for more, ever more wisdom, ever more love. It is artistic in its whole conception, in its parts and their arrangement down to the merest sentence. It is closer to the Gothic cathedrals that would grace Europe eight hundred years later than to anything that you or I might write about ourselves and our lives.”

Saint Augustine Of Hippo (Author), Kennedy Hall (Narrator)

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Good Music, Sacred Music, and Silence: Three Gifts of God for Liturgy and for Life

More is at stake in the music we listen to or perform than most people are aware. In this vivacious and challenging work, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski—a philosopher, theologian, composer, conductor, and singer—explains why the great classical music of Western civilization is morally and intellectually good for us, as well as why certain other forms of music can actually be harmful. Kwasniewski then offers a defense of the magnificent treasury of sacred music in the Latin-rite Catholic Church and shows how well-suited it is to divine worship, especially the incomparable art form known as Gregorian chant. Questioned and abandoned in recent tumultuous decades, this outstanding heritage of beauty deserves to be restored for profound theological and spiritual reasons, a restoration our times are at last beginning to see as old prejudices fade away. Kwasniewski issues a poignant crie de cœur in favor of restoring the glorious sacred music of our tradition to every Roman Catholic church on the earth. No genuine liturgical renewal or deep Eucharistic revival can occur until this happens: music is that important. Finally, Kwasniewski shows how silence is as valuable as—indeed, at times, more valuable than—even the greatest music, precisely because music at its best opens the way to encountering a reality that transcends all we can say or sing. Written to be accessible to the non-specialist, Good Music, Sacred Music, and Silence: Three Gifts of God for Liturgy and for Life will benefit all Catholics, other Christians, and even aesthetically curious nonbelievers who wish to explore the art of music in general, its role in human life, its effects on morality, and its inspired and inspiring function in religion. Kwasniewski's wide-ranging erudition and sound argumentation provide essential musical guidance for clergy, musicians, teachers, and parents.

Peter A. Kwasniewski (Author), Andrew Hansen, Kennedy Hall (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Kennedy Hall