Free audio bibles, in about a zillion languages. Download as an MPS, or scroll down to the bottom and listen online. Mighty mighty handy if you are studying a foreign language. Or just wish to amuse yourself.
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Funny story, and I can’t be the only one: So I found that link via Gwenn Mangine, the very down-to-earth evangelical missionary in Haiti. I go take a look at the bible site, click a selection to listen to, and then flip back to Google Reader to see what else she has to say. Click on the next unread post, and read this:
I once read a comment by Lady Abbess Benedict Duss, OSB to the effect that the chant in Latin was the most effective and most complete and transcendent prayer of praise outside of the mass. I don’t doubt it.
And I thought: Really? I had no idea she was such a fan of Latin Chant! What do you know?!
What you know, though, is that it was the Anchoress who said that. I had two different windows with Reader open, and I’d unwittingly clicked on the other one.
–> Happens all the time. I think I’m reading one blog, but I’ve actually clicked on a different one. They all look the same in Reader. And I’m thinking, “Wow, what an interesting thing for that writer to say . . .”
Really tests your ideas, when you don’t have the context of who is saying it, and you have to judge the ideas on their own merit. Google Reader needs a ‘shuffle’ button. Would help the brain, I feel sure.
“Free audio bibles, in about a zillion languages.”
Ooh…I like this. Can’t figure how I’m gonna use it yet; just to admire the effrontery of it all may have to suffice.
It is great fun to just turn one on and let it play.