Please browse our CD offerings. We feature on this page our most recent CD productions.
You are encouraged to follow the links below to find earlier Emmaus Road Initiative CD collections as well as CDs in the Audio Archive where presentations of both Gil Bailie and René Girard may be found.
Note - we will be adding more items to our Audio Archive in the coming months .
Thank you for your patience.
 Emmaus Road Initiative CDs - previous series
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 CD audio materials from the Cornerstone Forum library
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All 13 CDs in the Famished Craving series encased in a vinyl binder.
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14 MP3 files on a data CD of Gil Bailie's reflections on the Gospel of John. These MP3 files were produced from 12 cassette tapes of presentations Gil Bailie made in 1993 and are duplicates of the 14 CD set.
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In this tale of senseless violence told with O'Connor's classic wit and pathos we hear the Misfit say, Jesus.."thrown everything off balance". Using the lens of Rene Girard and the Gospel we see how this could be.
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In the final Montserrat presentations Gil Bailie explores "the person" through reflections on the Church's Christological and Trinitarian debates; and finally ends in the source and summit of Christian existence and experience, the Eucharist.
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Gil Bailie returns to the theme of our 'situatedness' in history. Using the Biblical metaphors of 'a Pharaoh that knew not Joseph' and 'the salt that has lost it savor' Mr. Bailie explores the plight of Jews in Europe as well as the Church in the world.
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Gil examines Holy Saturday with the help of Hans Urs von Balthasar's theology and follows with the reality of the bodily resurrection of Christ as the basis of a hope that encompasses each person individually as well as the entire creation.
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Exploring imitation and mimesis via the biblical understanding of humanity's creation in the "image and likeness of God". Human freedom is seen as God's risk for love even as Christ takes up the depths of human sinfulness and returns with forgiveness.
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From the Montserrat Retreat series given in December 2009 - Gil Bailie reflects on human origins through the images of the 'Angelus' paintings by Millet and Dali. The images of the paintings are included as digital files on the CD as well as a short video
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14 CD set in a vinyl binder of Gil Bailie's reflections on the Gospel of John. These CDs were produced from 12 cassette tapes of presentations Gil Bailie made in 1993.
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The first of a series of talks given by Gil Bailie in December 2009 at the Montserrat Jeusit Retreat Center, Dallas, TX.
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A 2 CD audio recording of the expanded remarks of Gil Bailie given at the University of Notre Dame conference "The Summons of Freedom - Virtue, Sacrifice, and the Common Good" in November 2009
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A CD audio recording of the expanded remarks of Gil Bailie given at a luncheon in honor of the Archbishop of San Francisco George Niederaurer and Rene Girard in Palo Alto, CA August 21, 2009
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A CD audio recording of the complete text of Gil Bailie's paper prepared for the Colloquium on Violence and Religion conference held July 8-12 2009 at St. Mary's University College, London, England.
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Famished Craving: the attention of others, the fascination of the famous and the need for faith. In part 1 of this series Gil Bailie explores the anthropological and religious roots of fame in the origins of kingship and human sacrifice.
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Famished Craving: the attention of others, the fascination of the famous and the need for faith. In part 2 of this series Gil Bailie explores the Heraciltan Logos of violence.
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From GLORY to modern fame via the desacralizing influence of the Gospel. In part 3 of the Famished Craving series Gil Bailie pursues the dynamics of moving from the false transcendence of primitive sacrifice to the true transcendence of self- sacrifice.
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“Lurking behind every chance to be made whole by fame is the ax man of further dismembering.”
In the fourth part of the Famished Craving series Gil Bailie looks at the relationship between the modern world’s infatuation with fame and nihilism.
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In this 5th part of the Famished Craving series Gil Bailie explores nihilism as a religious phenomenon; the religious experience of meaninglessness….the meaninglessness of my life as a numinous fact and I must witness to it.
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In this 6th part of the Famished Craving series Gil Bailie asks the question, “What is Modernity?”. Through examples taken from current articles Mr. Bailie examines modernity’s secularized Christian values of concern for the victim and the human person.
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In this 7th part of the Famished Craving series Gil Bailie follows the cultural effects of the Western world’s increasing secularism as it moves away from its Judeo-Christian roots; learning what it truly means to be cut off from revelation.
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In this 9th part of the Famished Craving series Gil Bailie looks at the role of models in the modern crisis. Using Jesus’ vine and branches discourse from the Gospels, Gil addresses the nature of hierarchy based on power versus that based on grace.
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Continuing with the story of Alexander the Great – the world’s first famous man - Gil Bailie in this 8th part of the Famished Craving series examines the role of Alexander’s ‘hero’ – Achilles – as the Macedonian’s mimetic model.
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In part 10 of the Famished Craving series Gil Bailie explores why the Dali Lama believes westerners have difficultly as disciples and uses Freud’s early work in hysteria as a lens to see the very real human social and psychological effects of idolatry.
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Part 11 of the Famished Craving series looks at the relationship between fame and myth through examples from texts of the ancient Romans (Vergil) and Greeks (Aeschylus) as well as from the modern world’s celebrity myth making media fonts of fame.
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Following on the discussion of Vergil’s understanding of fama as an image of both fame and myth Gil Bailie, takes up the work of Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid – Vergil’s later contemporary) contrasting these two exemplars of Roman letters.
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In part 13 of Famished Craving series, Gil Bailie uses the various meanings of the Latin word “liber” as a point of departure in an exploration of “book, liberation and Dionysus”. Beginning with Dante’s Paolo & Franchesca and ending with St. Augustine.
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