Today a 10 minutes podcast for your Christmas Octave reflections. Some bleak exuberance about Exsuperantius. Father Parsh and Troadec remark on the point of the condescension of God.
Today a 10 minutes podcast for your Christmas Octave reflections. Card. Schuster remarks on the office of bishop. Then Pius Parsch, with the help of St. John Chrysostom, remarks on the office of priest. Card. Bacci comments on what the Infant Jesus wants from us, as we look at Him, and He looks back at us.
Fr. Troadec with a lyrical prayer to the Holy Innocents. Jewish convert and scholar Alfred Edersheim situates the slaughter of the children in the context of salvation history. Card. Bacci slap us around heavily with a reflection on all the hours of our lives and then, finally, that critical final hour on which all depends. Pope Benedict XVI connects the Holy Innocents and Rachel weeping for her children.
Today a 10 minutes podcast for your Christmas Octave reflections. Card. Bacci tells us about St. John’s constancy with Christ and his emphasis on charity. Fulton Sheen recounts the difference between the two miraculous catches of fishes and how John and Peter reacted according to their characters. Fr. Troadec, the Lord’s three gifts to John which correspond to the three different states of our Lord while on Earth, life, death and something in between.
Today a 10 minutes podcast for your Christmas Octave reflections. A note from Fulton Sheen, some history of the celebration of the Feast in the ancient Roman Church, what happened to Stephen and why, what it means for us.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today we have a reflection from Fr. Troadec about the place where the Lord was born. Cardinal Bacci on apparent success and true success.
A 10 minute podcast for your Christmas reflection. Fr. Pius Parsh on the “exaltation” of the “King”. Bl. Ildefonso Schuster on the least we should do. Fr. Troadec: “Reestablish the reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ!”
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Fulton Sheen about “I’ll do it myyyy waaaaay!” The Collect. Fr. Troadec talks about what the Collect expressed, coincidently, and with Advent images.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Packed today! Sheen, Bacci, Troadec. Sort of like Tinker to Evers to Chance!
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Card. Bacci hits us directly between the eyes with the snap of a wet towel. Fr. Troadec pours it on.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today we hear about the Visitation and a reflection about mothers.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today Card. Bacci talks about what to aim for in getting ready for Christmas: humility. Fr. Troadec waxes eloquent about the O Antiphons.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today, about the December Ember Days as times for ordination, and how “the highest interests of Christian people are bound up, to a great extent, with the holiness of the clergy”. Also, comments about the <em>Missa Aurea</em>.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today we hear about a dialogue concerning Christian joy between a troubled soul and Holy Mother Church.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today, an important topic: How do we check that our conscience is operating as it should? We are introduced once again to the O Antiphons: How are they constructed?
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today we hear about growing joy and about true consolations, contrasted with what passes.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today we get into the danger of human respect. Sheen on what to do. Card. Bacci describes two kinds of desire.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Card. Bacci on weighing human success and failure, human esteem and opinion. Fulton Sheen and what God can do with a dirty bucket.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation.
Today Pius Parsch walks us through the main point of Advent for our spiritual good.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today Fr. Troadec gives a highly insightful look into three types of souls, those who long for perfect but have no peace, those who have an unhealthy desire for perfection, and those who can’t commit. Also, Card. Bacci addresses the immense gifts God has given for our spiritual lives. Are we grateful?
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today we hear about a particular element in the depiction of Mary as the Immaculate Conception. Also, Fr. Troadec speaks about how the Lord was prophesied so that He would be recognized when He came.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today we hear about how to use our time spent waiting in a spiritually useful sense. Also, Card. Zen talks about repentance.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation Today we hear from Fr. Troadec about how God is the Just Judge, an appropriate point of reflection for Advent. Also, St. Ambrose speaks about Mary as “type” of the Church.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation Today, we hear about St. Nicholas of Bari, the origin story of “Santa Claus”. Also, what it means for our lives to have certain individual gifts and talents.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation Today we hear about how we will be judged not by the Father, but by Christ in his humanity, not in His divinity. Also, Card. Bacci explains what healthy and true self-love is and what it isn’t.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation Today we hear about how Gabriel, in coming to Zechariah, underscores the fulfilment of the prophecy in Daniel 9. We get some medieval beats as well.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today we hear about Matins during Advent and also, with the help of Benedict XVI, about Oxen and Asses in our Christmas scenes.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation Today we hear from Bl. Ildefonso Schuster about how once upon a time verses were sung before the Introit in honor of St. Gregory the Great. Also, Card. Bacci fills us in about life.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Easter celebration. Fr. Troadec recounts the victorious elements of the Resurrection. At the end music from my home parish by Pietro Yon, Victimae paschali laudes. Yes, it’s really the parish’s choir.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Triduum discipline. Today, Benedict XVI reflects on the Shroud of Turin.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Triduum discipline. Fr. Troadec on “It is consummated”.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Triduum discipline. The Roman Station is supposed to be St. John Lateran for the Chrism Mass and the Mass of the Last Supper. The final prayer before the beginning of the Triduum. The Roman Station is supposed to be St. John Lateran for the Chrism Mass and the Mass of the Last Supper.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Fulton Sheen talks about the Good Thief and Jesus. Fr. Troadec considers the reading of the Passion according to Luke at Holy Mass today.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, I present a summary of how, since Septuagesima, we are being prepared - pruned - in our liturgical rites. Fr. Troadec tells us about the silence of Jesus in His Passion.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, even though the Feast of the Annunciation is transferred, we hear from Fr. Troadec about Mary’s “yes”. We are also reminded to be resolute about our resolutions.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, I speak about how to participate in and benefit from the sacred mysteries of Holy Week and the Triduum. Fr. Troadec looks into the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Fulton Sheen talks about death. Different kinds of martyrdom.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Fr. Troadec points out that we are one week out from Good Friday and talks about the Sorrows of Mary on this her Feast day.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, on this Feast of St. Benedict, Pope Benedict XVI gives us a reflection.
Today, Thomas a Kempis gives us a meditation on death. Card. Bacci talks about St. Joseph and death.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today Fr. Troadec has a beautiful reflection on St. Joseph.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Fr. Troadec talks about the conversion of Nineveh and Jonah. The penance of Lent draws graces down from God.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we review the process of pruning we have undergone since Pre-Lent and how the pruning is now going to be seriously stepped up in the Traditional Roman Rite. Also, we hear about Veronica’s veil, which is exposed for veneration today in St Peter’s Basilica.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Card. Richelieu gives excellent advice about either not being taken in by outward piety but lack of action or also preferment for the favored of the powerful.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we continue with the connection of yesterday’s and today’s Masses in the Vetus Ordo with a insight of Pius Parsch which we should take with us to every single Mass, to every reading of Scripture. Then outstanding spiritual advice from Card. Richelieu, to whom we return.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Pius Parsch helps us with the two resurrection stories in the readings for Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo, explaining that today’s Mass seems to be aimed at penitents while tomorrow’s, an older formula, is aimed at catechumens. Of course, he relates these to us, our lives, our deaths and resurrections.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we go back in time to the special rites performed for the ancient catechumens on this day, once the mid-point of Lent. These rites eventually came to be part of a continuous rite of baptism. They included the placing of salt in the mouth, the opening of the ears, and several exorcisms. Today we hear the second of the exorcisms. Last year we heard the first (which I’m sure you remember).
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we hear from Pius Parsch about how Moses is a “type”, a foreshadowing, of Christ.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we hear about Lord foretelling His greatest miracle.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Pius Parsch the symbolism of the rose with the season of Lent and the life of the Lord.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we connect the OT and NT readings. Fulton Sheen explores the last part of the episode of the Woman Taken In Adultery and what Christ really did.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we hear the 16th Counsel from Card. Richelieu, in A Treatise on Perfection Saintly Counsel on Obtaining Salvation: Novelty In The Spiritual Life Should Not Be Sought For Its Own Sake. I’ll leave you to form your own applications of his wise counsel.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Card. Bacci talks about St. Thomas Aquinas, whose Feast it is. Fulton Sheen on the Crucifixion.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Car. Bacci talks about the joy of the saints. Card. Richelieu has practical observations about moral perfection.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Fr. Troadec talks about belonging.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today Cardinal Richelieu gives us a cold slap of reality straight in the face. You hear some Arabic Christian Chant for Lent.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Fr. Troadec talks about the demons that prompt people to impurity. Important.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Card. Richelieu speaks of something dangerous in the spiritual life. Fulton Sheen talks about the efficacy of the synodal (“walking together” process… er um… no, rather… about just talking and not doing.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Card. Richelieu speaks of excesses and Fulton Sheen address the “three intimacies”.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Fr. Troadec about external appearances.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, you get Fulton Sheen and Card. Richelieu. His counsel about melancholy is helpful. You can co
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Fr. Troadec explains the difference between two kinds of men.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, a brief but wise counsel from Card. Richelieu and an insight from Fulton Sheen. A video about today’s Roman Station, San Clemente, is linked at the blog.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, I have a little ramble about the 1st readings for Mass today in the Vetus Ordo, the Traditional Latin Mass supplemented by a comment from Bl. Ildefonso Schuster. Then Card. Richelieu wisely counsels us about it not being good enough simply to avoid harming people. That’s not enough for the Christian life. We continue our spiritual pilgrimage to today’s Roman Station, Santa Maria in Domnica, with a video visit linked on the blog
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we visit San Pietro in Vaticano. We hear about the thematic progression of the Lenten Ember Days and how the whole 1st week of Lent ties together and culminates with the 2nd Sunday. Card. Richelieu continues to advise us about making progress in the spiritual life. Sound advice! On the blog is a link to a video visit to the Station.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we visit Santi Dodici Apostoli and hear a useful spiritual counsel.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we continue our spiritual pilgrimage to the Roman Stations by visiting San Lorenzo in Panisperna. A video visit to San Lorenzo, made by a friend in Rome, is linked on the blog.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we continue with Card. Richelieu’s counsel about progress. We all have faults. We all have merits. How to view them in myself and in others?
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we continue with Card. Richelieu’s counsel about progress - or not - on our faults and false progress in the spiritual life.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we continue with Card. Richelieu’s simple and practical advice about taking on penances. A video visit to the Roman Station, St. Peter in Chains, made by a friend in Rome is linked on the blog.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we have a spiritual counsel by Armand Jean du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu about being super pious but, in truth, sinning. Fulton Sheen touches on touch, and not in a Tucho tush touchy way. At the blog a link to a video trip to the Roman Station, St John Lateran
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today Card. Richelieu gives counsel about the fulfillment of one legitimate duties and responsibilities as having primacy over any other works of piety or charity. We have about the special Lenten Oratio super populum at the end of Mass. In the blog post is a link to the Crux Stationalis video about the Roman Station: Sant’Agostino ad Tryphonem
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Cardinal Richelieu - yes, him - gives us a Spiritual Counsel (#1)
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we hear from John Henry Newman about the circle of the year. Fulton Sheen drops a bomb. The “prayer over the people”. Roman Station San Giorgio in Velabro video by Crux Stationalis
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today we talk about the Roman Stations for every day of Lent. We hear about different customs for imposing ashes. The beautiful Emendemus takes us out. Roman Station: Santa Sabina video by Crux Stationalis
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we hear what “Shrove” means as in Shrove Tuesday. What is Lent? We have reminders about Roman Stations and purpose of Lent.