A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for the Octave of Christmas. Pius Parsch talks about the six throne of Jesus. Dom Prosper Guéranger on the wonder of adoption. At the end, a taste of the heartrending Coventry Carol in honor of the Feast of the Holy Innocents.
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for the Octave of Christmas. About the Beloved Disciple from John received three gifts from the Lord corresponding to the three “states” Christ experienced, life, death and life and death mingled.
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for the Octave of Christmas. Today I explain the three feast days now so closely tied to Christmas, St. Stephen, St. John the Evangelist, and the Holy Innocents. Fr. Troadec has a beautiful reflection on St. Stephen.
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Christmas and the Octave Fr. Troadec on the “marvelous night”. Fulton Sheen, opines.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Fr. Parsch starts to lead us into the point of Christmas with observations about the visible and the invisible.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Fr. Troadec about charity and … whew… time. Card. Bacci hits us smack between the eyes. O Emmanuel.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Pius Parsch describes the progression of Advent and it’s ongoing importance for our spiritual lives. The Collect and “O”.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today, we hear about the intersection of divinity and humanity and how we tend to treat God like we treat each other. Card. Bacci contrasts flashy works of pride and quiet works for God.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Joseph Ratzinger zooms to the heights he can reach about faith and reason and emotion and then he gets quite concrete and practical. Connect that to a note from Fulton Sheen.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Bl. Ildefonso on how we are more blessed than the patriarch and prophets. With reference to the Usus Antiquior Mass for Ember Saturday Pius Parsch looks at those who will accompany the King.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today a reminder from Fulton Sheen. It’s not a fanciful tale, it’s true. If we do not love Jesus, whom else are we capable of loving?
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today is jampacked, liturgically. We enter today, 17 December, into the final stretch before Christmas. Therefore at Vespers we start to sing the O Antiphons. Today is Ember Wednesday in Advent. Today’s Mass is also called the “Golden Mass… Missa Aurea” because of the reflection on the moment of the Incarnation and also because in early missals the initial of the Introit was often decorated with gold, it was highly esteemed.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today we explore what “conscience” means, how its gets things right, and how it goes wrong. We drill into “patience”, which is a key point in the Mass formulary of Gaudete Sunday (hint: modestia)
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today we have a preview of the new week’s liturgical features. Then we hear Fr. Troadec on preparing to receive the graces God wants to give us at Christmas.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today we do a spiritual deep dive into the thematic Introit of Holy Mass which gives this 3rd Sunday of Advent its nickname: Gaudete… Rejoice!
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today we hear from a great book from TAN Books called Advent and Christmas with the Church Fathers: a seven week Retreat on the Mystery and the Meaning of the Incarnation. (Link on the blog.) We hear about New Adam, New Eve, the Baptist and the nuptial theme. It goes on with Augustine from s. 293 about John as the Voice and Christ as the Word.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today Fr. Troadec teaches about why some are scandalized by Jesus. Card. Bacci leans in hard about acceptance of God’s will no matter what.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Joseph Ratzinger riffs on the person of the Baptist and the Christian imperative of metanoia. Card. Bacci forcefully admonishes us about reception of the Word. Fulton Sheen is, as usual, brilliant.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today I found a passage wherein Joseph Ratzinger investigates the world-mired mindset of those who resist the teaching of the Virgin Birth. I wonder it pertains (via modernism) today and the reduction of titles of Mary. Then we hear about how to attain peace of soul in this world.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent 2025 preparation. We hear from Pius Parsch today about the meaning of the Feast in the context of Advent and what it could indicate for our spiritual progress.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent 2025 preparation. Today Fr. Troadec talks great sense about REALITY and spiritual progress. Card. Bacci administers a dose of medicine.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent 2025 preparation. Pius Parsch show how this Sunday, this week, focuses on Jerusalem, which is symbolic. We hear about the second week from Advent and Christmas with the Church Fathers: a seven week Retreat on the Mystery and the Meaning of the Incarnation.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation The striking figure of St. Nicholas Jesus, Son of Mary Linking Advent and illness
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation Today, we hear that the Church is perhaps bigger and smaller than we think. Fr. T explains how we will be judged by Christ in his humanity.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation Today Fr. Parsch explains the structure of Advent. Fr. Troadec explains why the world will be destroyed by fire.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation St. Bibiana is an example for us today How to be “perfect”
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent 2025 preparation. Today Fr. Troadec has thoughts about Advent. Card. Bacci talks about purity of heart. Fulton Sheen turns us inside out.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent 2025 preparation. Fr. Z rants a little. A note about discipline of prayer during Advent. For the book used and music note, see the blog.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent 2025 preparation. Some remarks about Advents for this “zeroeth” podcast. St. John Henry Newman describes being watchful. The Collect for the 24th and Last Sunday after Pentecost.
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