A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Santa Susanna, the Roman Station. Card. Bacci addresses the “spirit of prayer” which can transform our daily life itself into prayer.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Sts. San Lorenzo in Lucina, the Roman Station. Fr. Troadec talks about how to evangelize with our lives.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Sts. Cosmas and Damian, the Roman Station. Card. Bacci talks about being overly attached to worldly goods, and how to treat them properly.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about San Sisto Vecchio, the Roman Station. Fr. Troadec gives us sound advice about dealing with difficulties and being forthright.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Santa Pudenziana the Roman Station. Fr. Troadec explains true community and talks about vocations. The Nuns of Gower sing: O Queen of Priests and Mother.
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.
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.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Saints Marcellinus and Peter, the Roman Station. Card. Bacci talks about St. Thomas Aquinas, whose feast it is. I had to reconstruct yesterday’s.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about San Vitale, the Roman Station. Card. Bacci takes a cue from St. Ambrose and expatiates about different martyrdoms, of bloody death and of the virtuous life.
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.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, the Roman Station. Card. Bacci really gets after us about how will view our use of our fleeting time when out own time comes.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Santa Balbina, the Roman Station. Fr. Troadec has an amazing reflection on two kinds of people.
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”.
Today the Roman Station is Santa Maria in Domnica on the Coelian Hill. Then we hear from Pope Benedict’s Message for Lent of 2013, that sad and fateful year.
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.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today we learn about the Station of all four Ember Fridays. Pius Parsch on the happiness of a clear conscience.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today we hear about St. Lawrence, his churches in Rome and his martyrdom. Why did the Lord at first refuse a miracle to the Canaanite woman?
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today we hear about the Roman Station: St. Mary Major, a review of Ember days, and then about our annual Lenten Retreat’s four preachers.
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.
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.
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.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today our Roman Station is at the Church of St. Augustine. We hear from Fr. Troadec about a sin of the tongue, gossip that harms the reputations of others.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today we get into the Prayer over the people, Oratio super populum - at the end of Mass in the Vetus Ordo.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear from St. John Henry Newman about Lent and then there is a stirring reflection from Fr. Troadec: “If we were to die this night, would we be ready?”
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.”
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.