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Bishop Williamson Teaches ... the Apocalypse
« on: March 05, 2025, 04:29:05 PM »
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  • 65 Lectures, averaging between 45-50 minutes each, with two "double" sessions, from the academic year 1998-1999 delivered by His Excellency Bishop Williamson at Winona, MN ... arranged in chronological order (originals were not) and passed through some amazing AI tools to automatically remove a lot of the "white" noise.  In fact, the originals had so much noise that they were almost impossible to listen to.

    There are some chronological gaps due to Christmas break, Easter break, and I assume various duties that took His Excellency away for periods of time (e.g. performing Confirmations), and, while I cannot guarantee that every single class made it to recording, I think this represents the bulk of them.

    While, directly, it's about a relatively narrow topic, a Sacred Scripture class on the Apocalypse of St. John, His Excellency digresses a lot and touches upon a significant portion of the wider body of his teaching, so you'll hear a lot of his main themes.  Of course, given the crisis, many of us believe the Apocalypse to be more relevant than ever, and that includes Bishop Williamson, and so there's great deal of nexus with many of the issues confronting us today.

    Here's a link to download the (2.1 GB) .zip file with all the audio in .mp3 format so you can listen wherever on a device of your own choosing and without an active internet connection (e.g. in a car) ... so it would be great for commuters, instead of perhaps wasting time doing nothing (I find that I can't pray very well while driving), and good material for the Lenten season.

    https://app.box.com/shared/static/ts12ra1v06k246mvlsfjfpjaruy10mk0.zip

    Once you unzip or "extract" the files, if you sort them in ascending order by filename, the filename convention I employed will sort them also in chronological order.  There's also a metadata field called "#" that has them numbered 1-65.  Some operating systems will show that field by default, but for others you may have to explicitly indicate in the "Explorer" that the field should be visible.

    I posted these originally (including the ZIP file download) on my Substack page here.

    https://vladsarto.substack.com/p/his-excellency-bishop-richard-williamson


    I have no intention of ever "monetizing" my Substack and will never charge for it.  It's always savored of simony to me to charge for things that benefit souls, nor do I want to see Our Lord at my judgement to be told "You've had your reward."  And, as you know, I'm deeply opposed to grifting off the faith.  In fact, I took a loss here, since to process the noise from these audios, I incurred some expense for these modern "AI" tools that did a fantastic job, and am paying (a little) for hosting the box.com account for the mp3 download (free options were inadequate for different reasons).  I only say that in case some skeptics think I'm trying to make money off this somehow.  I'm not and never will, since I find that entire practice objectionable.  That's to say nothing of the fact that 100% of the effort here came from His Excellency Bishop Williamson.  Nor am I even trying to draw traffic to my Substack, since I provide the .mp3 link first (just to a box.com account) and then to my Substack just for reference, and I will not monetize that either.  I hosted the .mp3 files because I didn't want people to have to go back to my Substack just to listen to these, but to be able to play them on devices of their choosing and without active internet connections (e.g. in the car). 

    Substack makes it easy to "turn on" paid subscriptions (just a few clicks) and then hide some material behind the "paywall" where you'd have to pay in order to get it.  If I tried that with these lectures (or anything else for that matter), I'd be disgusted with myself for exploiting His Excellency's efforts for my gain, to the detriment of souls who perhaps couldn't afford to pay for them or for whom it would be a hardship.  If that were to happen, I'd give Sean Johnson permission to come over my house and administer the beating I deserved.  Croix could join him (and would undoubtedly be happy to), in case Sean needed a bit of extra (<10% body fat) muscle.

    In any case, I am gratified that there have been many downloads of the sermons, and am thrilled that Bishop Williamson can continue to teach souls even from eternity and to have played some very tiny part in allowing that to happen.

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    Re: Bishop Williamson Teaches ... the Apocalypse
    « Reply #1 on: March 05, 2025, 05:08:41 PM »
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  • Thank you, Lad. I have signed-up for your Substack.
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