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This is not a single story but a series of diverse explorations that encourage contemplation of life's ultimate questions and the nature of divine judgment. With every episode, listeners are encouraged to discover a new book that deepens their understanding of spiritual truths and the human condition, fostering a connection to the universal experience of seeking meaning in the face of eternity.]]></description><atom:link href="https://www.spreaker.com/show/7114834/episodes/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><language>en</language><category>Books</category><copyright>Copyright Poetry Genre</copyright><image><url>https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg</url><title>Dream of Gerontius (Version 2)</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dream-of-gerontius-version-2--7114834</link></image><lastBuildDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:12:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><itunes:author>John Henry Newman</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Poetry Genre</itunes:name><itunes:email>spreaker74@podcastlibrary.org</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:subtitle>Delve into the profound exploration of the human soul as suggested by the evocative title, "Dream of Gerontius (Version 2)." 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With every episode, listeners are encouraged to discover a new book that deepens their understanding of spiritual truths and the human condition, fostering a connection to the universal experience of seeking meaning in the face of eternity.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:category text="Arts"><itunes:category text="Books"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Religion &amp; Spirituality"/><itunes:category text="Religion &amp; Spirituality"><itunes:category text="Religion"/></itunes:category><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><podcast:guid>da834417-bc10-5609-b83a-2b3c63f0a223</podcast:guid><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><item><title>Four Noncanonical Sherlock Holmes Short Stories-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/four-noncanonical-sherlock-holmes-short-stories-sir-arthur-conan-doyle--74349455</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. 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It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>5951</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Don Caesar de Bazan-Adolphe d'Ennery, Dumanoir</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/don-caesar-de-bazan-adolphe-d-ennery-dumanoir--74326810</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. 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Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. 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It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>21739</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Peer Gynt-Henrik Ibsen</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/peer-gynt-henrik-ibsen--74288236</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. 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It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>19115</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Old Scrooge-Charles Augustus Scott</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/old-scrooge-charles-augustus-scott--74268943</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. 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It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>5919</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Athaliah-Jean Racine</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/athaliah-jean-racine--74253723</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. 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Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. 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It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>7530</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Disagreeable Man-W. S. Gilbert</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/disagreeable-man-w-s-gilbert--74225119</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74225119</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:00:38 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74225119/disagreeable_man_w_s_gilbert.mp3" length="26071472" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>John Henry Newman</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. 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It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3256</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Poems-Adam Lindsay Gordon</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/poems-adam-lindsay-gordon--74204415</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74204415</guid><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:31 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74204415/poems_adam_lindsay_gordon.mp3" length="155040276" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>John Henry Newman</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. 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It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>19361</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>All That Glitters Is Not Gold-John Maddison Morton</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-that-glitters-is-not-gold-john-maddison-morton--74178148</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74178148</guid><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:00:29 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74178148/all_that_glitters_is_not_gold_john_maddison_morton.mp3" length="59455999" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>John Henry Newman</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. 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It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>7425</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Cat and the Canary-John Willard</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/cat-and-the-canary-john-willard--74152238</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74152238</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:00:40 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74152238/cat_and_the_canary_john_willard.mp3" length="79975096" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>John Henry Newman</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. 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It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>9987</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Eugene Onéguine-Alexander Pushkin</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/eugene-oneguine-alexander-pushkin--74125552</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74125552</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:00:34 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74125552/eugene_one_guine_alexander_pushkin.mp3" length="128061394" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>John Henry Newman</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. 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It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>15992</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Beauty Stone-Joseph Comyns Carr, Arthur Wing Pinero</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/beauty-stone-joseph-comyns-carr-arthur-wing-pinero--74077743</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. 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It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>10544</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Castle Spectre-Matthew Lewis</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/castle-spectre-matthew-lewis--74055289</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74055289</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:29 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74055289/castle_spectre_matthew_lewis.mp3" length="97001068" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>John Henry Newman</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. 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It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>12113</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Double Dealer-William Congreve</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/double-dealer-william-congreve--74033036</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74033036</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:01:52 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74033036/double_dealer_william_congreve.mp3" length="93111103" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>John Henry Newman</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. 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It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>11627</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Wouldbegoods (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)-E. Nesbit</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/wouldbegoods-version-2-dramatic-reading-e-nesbit--74014072</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74014072</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:01:46 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74014072/wouldbegoods_version_2_dramatic_reading_e_nesbit.mp3" length="271757877" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>John Henry Newman</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. 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It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>33935</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Hernani-Victor Hugo</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/hernani-victor-hugo--73991629</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73991629</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:01:22 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73991629/hernani_victor_hugo.mp3" length="101602565" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>John Henry Newman</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. 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It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>12687</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>One-Act Play Collection 018-Various</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/one-act-play-collection-018-various--73971570</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73971570</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:01:48 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73971570/one_act_play_collection_018_various.mp3" length="192836067" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>John Henry Newman</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. 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It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>24080</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Translations &amp; Imitations of German Ballads-Sir Walter Scott</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/translations-imitations-of-german-ballads-sir-walter-scott--73950964</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73950964</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:02:05 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73950964/translations_imitations_of_german_ballads_sir_walter_scott.mp3" length="20363668" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>John Henry Newman</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. 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It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2543</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Sleeper-Edgar Allan Poe</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/sleeper-edgar-allan-poe--73929330</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73929330</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:02:03 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73929330/sleeper_edgar_allan_poe.mp3" length="18213940" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>John Henry Newman</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. 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It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2275</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Gondoliers-W. S. Gilbert</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/gondoliers-w-s-gilbert--73905932</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73905932</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:02:29 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73905932/gondoliers_w_s_gilbert.mp3" length="47699735" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>John Henry Newman</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. 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It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>5956</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Tristram and Iseult and other poems-Matthew Arnold</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/tristram-and-iseult-and-other-poems-matthew-arnold--73884309</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. 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It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>9184</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Travels by the Fireside-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/travels-by-the-fireside-henry-wadsworth-longfellow--73863748</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. 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It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. (Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Editor) Cast List Gerontius: Larry Wilson Assistants: Alan Mapstone The Priest: Inkell Angel: ShrimpPhish Demons: ToddHW Choir of Angelicals: Alan Mapstone Angels of the Sacred Stair: Brian Fullen Angel of the Agony: Agnes Robert Behr Souls in Purgatory: Jon Hunter Narration: Alan Mapstone]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2581</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e4f1ea342e0c57eef60c1334afce9e89.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Lady of the Lake-Edmund John Eyre</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/lady-of-the-lake-edmund-john-eyre--73844556</link><description><![CDATA[John Henry Newman was an English theologian, academic, writer and poet. Initially a Fellow of Oxford University, where he helped to found the Evangelical Oxford Movement, he later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal. The Dream of Gerontius follows the journey of a man through death and purgatory to the sight of God. It has been described as a metrical meditation on death. It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. 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It is more than that; it is the realization by means of a loving heart and a poetic imagination of the state of a just soul after death,—Gerontius typifying not the soul of a particular person imagined by Cardinal Newman, but your soul, my soul, any soul which may be fortunate enough to satisfy the judging and merciful God. No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. 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No poet has ever presented the condition of the soul, as made known by the theology of the Catholic Church, so forcibly and appealingly as Cardinal Newman. The Poem owes much of its imagery to Dante's Divine Comedy. It was adapted as a Choral Oratorio by Edward Elgar. 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