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Season 2026 episodes (52)

LENTCAzT 2026 – 46: Holy Saturday – The last indignity
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LENTCAzT 2026 – 46: Holy Saturday – The last indignity

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Triduum discipline. We hear about the Bapistry of St. John Lateran, where the ancient catechumens became new creations. Card. Schuster looks into the tomb while we wait

LENTCAzT 2026 – 45: Good Friday - Christ and our moral suffering
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LENTCAzT 2026 – 45: Good Friday - Christ and our moral suffering

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Triduum discipline. We hear about Holy Cross in Jerusalem, the Roman Station for the Good Friday, where relics of the Passion are preserved with soil from Calvary. Card. Bacci talks about Christ’s moral suffering, in addition to his physical, and what it means for us in our own lives.

LENTCAzT 2026 – 44: Holy Thursday - Why we eat the victim
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LENTCAzT 2026 – 44: Holy Thursday - Why we eat the victim

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about St. John Lateran, the Roman Station for the Mass of the Last Supper. Card. Schuster gives insights into the Lesson for the Mass and about victims and sacrifices. The wonderful nuns of Gower Abbey, the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, have a  disc and digital download of the Tenebrae Responses, among the most beautiful chants of the year. See the blog.

LENTCAzT 2026 – 43: Spy Wednesday of Holy Week
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LENTCAzT 2026 – 43: Spy Wednesday of Holy Week

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about St. Mary Major on the Esquiline Hill, the Roman Station. Fr. Troadec why we read all the accounts of the Passion. Card. Schuster presents the Prayer over the People, used at the end of the hours of the Office in the Triduum.

LENTCAzT 2026 – 42: Tuesday of Holy Week - Peter's Passion
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LENTCAzT 2026 – 42: Tuesday of Holy Week - Peter's Passion

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Santa Prisca on the Aventine Hill, the Roman Station. The identity of St Prisca is uncertain. One tradition claims that she is identical with Priscilla, who is mentioned in the New Testament. Fr. Troadec speaks of Jesus silence during the Passion. Fr. Parsch describes Peter’s Passion after his denial.

LENTCAzT 2026 – 41: Monday of Holy Week - All tenderness
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LENTCAzT 2026 – 41: Monday of Holy Week - All tenderness

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Santa Praessede, the Roman Station, and also the former Station, connected to Peter when he fled Rome. Fr. Troadec has a beautiful reflection on the woman with the alabaster jar.

LENTCAzT 2026 – 39: Saturday in Passiontide - POISON
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LENTCAzT 2026 – 39: Saturday in Passiontide - POISON

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about St. John at the Latin Gate, the Roman Station. We spend time with Jesus going through His last days before the Passion.

LENTCAzT 2026 – 37: Thursday in Passiontide - Babylon and Nard
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LENTCAzT 2026 – 37: Thursday in Passiontide - Babylon and Nard

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Sant’Apollinare, the Roman Station. Fr. Parsch addresses the theme of the Lesson for the Mass in the Vetus Ordo (Babylon) and the Gospel’s figure (the Penitent Woman).  Connected?

LENTCAzT 2026 – 36: Wednesday in Passiontide & Annunciation - Good Shepherd in the Mass
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LENTCAzT 2026 – 36: Wednesday in Passiontide & Annunciation - Good Shepherd in the Mass

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about San Marcello, the Roman Station. Fr. Parsch addresses the Good Shepherd. Because it is the Feast of the Annunciation we have a musical tribute to Our Lady’s “Fiat” with a lovely polyphonic “Ave Maria” sung by the choir of St. John Cantius in Chicago.

LENTCAzT 2026 – 31: Friday 4th Week in Lent –
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LENTCAzT 2026 – 31: Friday 4th Week in Lent –

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Sant’Eusebio, the Roman Station.  Joseph Ratzinger on the 3rd Station of the Way of the Cross of the Lord.

LENTCAzT 2026 – 26: Laetare Sunday, 4th in Lent - The goal
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LENTCAzT 2026 – 26: Laetare Sunday, 4th in Lent - The goal

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, the Roman Station. Fr. Troadec delves into this point in Lent. Card. Bacci says prayer is the key to Heaven. He has sobering words at the end.

LENTCAzT 2026 – 19: 3rd Sunday of Lent - Fight the demon of impurity
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LENTCAzT 2026 – 19: 3rd Sunday of Lent - Fight the demon of impurity

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about St/ Lawrence outs0de-the-walls, the Roman Station. Fr. Troadec talks about avoiding the sin that is “the most common cause of man’s damnation”. He talks about means of prevention and means of cure as well as how to make a good confession.

LENTCAzT 2026 – 20: Monday 3rd Week in Lent - The healing bath
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LENTCAzT 2026 – 20: Monday 3rd Week in Lent - The healing bath

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about San Marco the Roman Station and the Collect church Sant’Adriano once the ancient Senate of Rome. Fr. Troadec the need to make a good examination of conscience.

LENTCAzT 2026 – 16: Thursday in the 2nd Week in Lent - Dives et Lazarus
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LENTCAzT 2026 – 16: Thursday in the 2nd Week in Lent - Dives et Lazarus

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about the beautiful and ancient Santa Maria in Trastevere, the Roman Station. Fr. Troadec pries open the Gospel reading for today about the Rich Man and the Beggar who have quite different endings.

LENTCAzT 2026 – 13: Monday in the 2nd Week in Lent - "Everything became clear to me."
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LENTCAzT 2026 – 13: Monday in the 2nd Week in Lent - "Everything became clear to me."

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about San Clemente, the Roman Station. If you ever get to Rome, this is a must visit church. It will be one of the most interesting places you see. Fr. Troadec schools us in how intimate the Lord is with us, how close. I’m reminded of “noverim te, noverim me”.

LENTCAzT 2026 – 11: Ember Saturday 1st Week in Lent – "Know Thyself!"
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LENTCAzT 2026 – 11: Ember Saturday 1st Week in Lent – "Know Thyself!"

Today brief comments on the Roman Station, St. Peter’s on the Vatican Hill, and about the ancient Ember Days, and their “arc” according to Joseph Ratzinger. Then Card. Bacci gives us a good old fashioned talking to about the need to make a good examination of conscience.

LENTCAzT 2026 – 07: Tuesday 1st Week in Lent - Against the wicked
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LENTCAzT 2026 – 07: Tuesday 1st Week in Lent - Against the wicked

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. St. Jerome used to say Mass at the Roman Station today. We hear something Christ told St. Catherine of Siena in the Dialogues. Then, a blunt prayer to illuminate the wicked in the Church, to expose the horrors they are working. Fr. Troadec describes praying in faith filled simplicity. Lastly, on his feast day, we hear the Collect for St. Matthias. Whew.

LENTCAzT 2026 – 05: 1st Sunday of Lent - ANGELS!
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LENTCAzT 2026 – 05: 1st Sunday of Lent - ANGELS!

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today we visit St. John Lateran, the Roman Station and also talk about the Feast of the Cathedra of St. Peter, which is today, 22 February. The Bl. Ildefonso Schuster takes over with a fascinating digression about the angels who ministered to the Lord in his human body and also in his mystical body.

LENTCAzT 2026 – 06: Monday 1st Week in Lent - Bonds
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LENTCAzT 2026 – 06: Monday 1st Week in Lent - Bonds

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear today about chains, bonds, uniting and separating. Pius Parsch chimes in on what the Church wants us to learn today.

PODCAzT 190 – Voices of the Fathers 05 – St. Jerome's wide open spaces
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PODCAzT 190 – Voices of the Fathers 05 – St. Jerome's wide open spaces

I recently rediscovered a slim volume entitled The Osterley Selection from the Latin Fathers, published in 1950. The preface praises the great classical authors yet insists that Christian also worthy. The collection includes brief selections from Fathers of the Church. I am going through the book with podcasts of English translation, comments and the Latin original. Today we hear an excerpt from St. Jerome’s Letter 14 to his friend Heliodorus. Jerome tries to persuade him - in beautiful Latin - to take up the ascetic life again.

LENTCAzT 2026 – 01: Ash Wednesday – Man your stations!
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LENTCAzT 2026 – 01: Ash Wednesday – Man your stations!

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Remarks about the Roman Stations, the manner of imposition of ashes, and thoughts of Fr. Troadec, which I don’t believe I’ve read on an Ash Wednesday. He’s terrific. And brief. Terrific partly because he’s brief!

PODCAzT 189 – Voices of the Fathers 04 – The Pilgrimage of Egeria
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PODCAzT 189 – Voices of the Fathers 04 – The Pilgrimage of Egeria

I recently rediscovered a slim volume entitled The Osterley Selection from the Latin Fathers, published in 1950. The preface praises the great classical authors—Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Virgil—yet insists that Christian also worthy. The collection includes brief selections from Fathers of the Church. It occurred to me that I might offer a podcast of the readings with an English translation, comments and the Latin original. Today we hear from a 4th century nun name Egeria, or sometime Etheria and her pilgrimage, Itinerario or Peregrinatio, an extended journey through Egypt, Sinai, Palestine, Syria, and Mesopotamia.   In this excerpt she describes Holy Thursday night liturgy in Jerusalem.

PODCAzT 188 – Voices of the Fathers 03 – Should Christians Go To The Public Games?
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PODCAzT 188 – Voices of the Fathers 03 – Should Christians Go To The Public Games?

I was recently going through some old books and found a slim volume entitled The Osterley Selection from the Latin Fathers, edited by Joseph Crehan of Heythrop College, was compiled chiefly for seminarians, especially late vocations, at Campion College, Osterley, a Jesuit formation house in the Archdiocese of Westminster that closed in 2004. The 1949 preface praises the great classical authors—Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Virgil—yet insists that Christian writing shows a different kind of beauty. Pagans, it says, wrote with studied grace; Christians with passionate conviction. The volume includes selections from Ambrose and Augustine, Tertullian, Vincent of Lérins, Jerome, and others. Some of you get Patristic readings in the office of readings in the Liturgy of the Hours but do you hear them?  That’s another question.  There are 42 brief readings in the book by authors whom you will more than likely recognize.    I propose to read an English translation, make some comments and read the Latin. 

PODCAzT 187 – Voices of the Fathers 02 – The Martyrdom of St. Cyprian
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PODCAzT 187 – Voices of the Fathers 02 – The Martyrdom of St. Cyprian

I was recently going through some old books and found a slim volume entitled The Osterley Selection from the Latin Fathers, edited by Joseph Crehan of Heythrop College, was compiled chiefly for seminarians, especially late vocations, at Campion College, Osterley, a Jesuit formation house in the Archdiocese of Westminster that closed in 2004. The 1949 preface praises the great classical authors—Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Virgil—yet insists that Christian writing shows a different kind of beauty. Pagans, it says, wrote with studied grace; Christians with passionate conviction. The volume includes selections from Ambrose and Augustine, Tertullian, Vincent of Lérins, Jerome, and others. It occurred to me that I might offer a podcast of the first reading and see how it goes.   Some of you get Patristic readings in the office of readings in the Liturgy of the Hours but do you hear them?  That’s another question.  There are 42 brief readings in the book by authors whom you will more than likely recognize.    I propose to read an English translation, make some comments and read the Latin. Today we hear from the Acts of the Martyrdom of St. Cyprian of Carthage  St. Cyprian was bishop of Carthage from 248 to 258. He had survived the persecution of Decius by going on the run until the death of that emperor in 251. When after some years’ respite a new persecution broke out in 257, under Valerian, he was arrested and sent into exile. The year following, he was brought back to Carthage and tried on September 14th, 258. The scene of his martyrdom was, as we are told by the deacon Pontius in his We of Cyprian, a valley surrounded by wooded hills on the estate of Sextus. Some of the spectators climbed trees when they found that the size of the crowd or the distance kept them from a good view. St. Cyprian of Carthage stands as one of the most lucid episcopal witnesses of the third century, a man whose theology was forged in persecution and whose blood sealed his teaching.  In Cyprian, doctrine, discipline, and martyrdom converge in a single, luminous testimony.  J. N. D. Kelly, on Cyprian’s authority and legacy: “No Latin Father before Augustine exercised so decisive an influence on Western ecclesiology as Cyprian.”

PODCAzT 186 – Voices of the Fathers 01 - The Scillitan Martyrs
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PODCAzT 186 – Voices of the Fathers 01 - The Scillitan Martyrs

I was recently going through some old books and found a slim volume entitled The Osterley Selection from the Latin Fathers, edited by Joseph Crehan of Heythrop College, was compiled chiefly for seminarians, especially late vocations, at Campion College, Osterley, a Jesuit formation house in the Archdiocese of Westminster that closed in 2004. The 1949 preface praises the great classical authors—Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Virgil—yet insists that Christian writing shows a different kind of beauty. Pagans, it says, wrote with studied grace; Christians with passionate conviction. The volume includes selections from Ambrose and Augustine, Tertullian, Vincent of Lérins, Jerome, and others. It occurred to me that I might offer a podcast of the first reading and see how it goes.   Some of you get Patristic readings in the office of readings in the Liturgy of the Hours but do you hear them?  That’s another question.  There are 42 brief readings in the book by authors whom you will more than likely recognize.    I propose to read an English translation, make some comments and read the Latin.