The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death - a podcast by Fr. John Arnold

Dante's Divine Comedy is celebrating it 700th anniversary. Dante' unforgettable take on Gehena, sin and redemption has formed Catholic imaginations about Hell for centuries. Learn more about Our Lord's teaching of Gehenna, child sacrifice and Dante's imagination of Oro Valley Catholic.

The image is from a tomb at the site of the Tophet in the Gei Ben Hinnom Valley in Jerusalem. Read Edwin Black’s perspective on the Gei Ben Hinnom Valley - https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/08/29/hell-on-earth/a2777d75-cfa6-4325-814a-0a26c83086c5/

Here are the readings for the 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092621.cfm

To read Dante's Commedia, I recommend Mark Musa's translation at Amazon.com.

The music tract, "Unhallowed chant" is used pursuant to license from Free Music Archives.

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