ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 30 – Sunday in the Octave: Heartbeat
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today 6 minutes instead of 5. Today we hear from Joseph Ratzinger in the 1st Anniversary of his death. We pray.
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ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 29 – Saturday in the Octave: Sleep of Pain
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today we hear from St. Alphonsus about the the way Baby Jesus slept. Benedict XVI delves into the manger.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 27 – St. Thomas of Canterbury: A Sermon
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. It's a 7 minute, rather than 5 minute podcast this time. Today, we hear the Christmas Day Sermon by Archbishop Thomas from T.S. Eliot's Murder In The Cathedral.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 26 – Holy Innocents: The cold winter of unbelief
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, Pius Parsch sets the stage. St. Augustine gets to the point of their rapid life. A prayer.
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It's 27 December 2023 and it is the Wednesday in the Octave of Christmas and the Feast of St John the Evangelist. Some time ago, I saw a movie called News of the World in which years after the Civil War a former confederate officer eeks out a living going about and reading to people who pay a dime a head (about $2.50 today) various newspaper stories from all over. The idea caught my imagination and here I am, a gazetteer. An audio "gazette" of Catholic things. 00:14 - Init 01:17 - Latin Liturgy Newsletter - Why Liturgy Appeals To Men 7:22 - In Coenaculo - Benedictines of Silverstream 14:24 - Dowry - FSSP in England 22:17 - The Guardian - 8 Year-Old Prodigy 24:34 - Regina Coeli Report - SSPX 29:27 - First Things - Priests, Military, Clericalism 37:14 - St. John Eudes - Exit
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 25 – St. John: Christ's three gifts to John
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today we hear about "Hide and Seek". Then, Fr. Troadec explains the three gifts to John which Christ gave in His "three states." (Fascinating.)
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 24 – St. Stephen: His face was like that of an angel
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, Bl. Ildefonso describes the papal doings in the ancient Roman Church. We hear the account of the martyrdom of Stephen. Fr. Troadec prays.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 23 – Christmas: Paradoxical Divinity
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, we are sticking with one of the very best for the whole thing.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 22 – Vigil of Christmas: Joseph
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, Schuster on the humility of Joseph. Fulton Sheen reminds us of the ongoing action of Christ. The Collect.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 21 – Ember Saturday 3rd Week of Advent: History
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today Bl. Ildefonso describes how our ancient Roman forebears observed this day. And we hear the last O Antiphon.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 20 – Ember Friday 3rd Week of Advent: Truth smack
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Bl. Ildefonso Schuster's on our Marian devotion, even in time of penance. Fulton Sheen smacks us in the face with the truth.
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An audio "gazette" of Catholic things. 00:12 - Init - Winter Solstice 02:50 - Latin Liturgy Newsletter - - 03:08 Detroit - Prayer in Protestant Cemeteries - 04:57 FSSP News - 08:20 Floriani - 10:23 Children's Book on Purgatory. New Friends Now and Forever [US HERE -UK HERE] - 12:20 Why Latin? An answer 14:45 - A Christmas Letter from a family 20:23 - The Wanderer - 7 Dec 2023 - Plenary Indulgence for prayer a Nativity Scene 20:17 - The Wanderer 14 Dec - Nigerian priest abducted. - 27:40 - What are the sins that "cry to heaven for vengeance"? 30:20 - Israel 365News - Archeologists find Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah 42:11 - Concealed Carry Magazine - Naked guy in the house 43:50 - Sacred Music Fall 2023 - About Paul VI and "Modern Man" and "New Mass" 50:55 - Exit
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 19 – Thursday 3rd Week of Advent: Veni!
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, Fr. Troadec drills into the constant cry of "Come!" that we have during Advent. Then a great saint and doctor of the Church prays from the heart.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 18 – Wednesday 3rd Week of Advent: The meaning of Christ's tears
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, St. Paul gives us our marching orders. Fulton Sheen reminds us that we have to trust God. Card. Bacci explains Christ's infant tears.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 17 – Tuesday 3rd Week of Advent: Physician of our souls
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, St. Alphonsus Liguori reflect on Christ as our redeemer and healer of our souls and then raises his heart to God in prayer. O Deus, ego amo te, Nec amo te ut salves me, Nec quod qui te non diligunt, Æterno igne pereunt.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 16 – Monday 3rd Week of Advent: Meekness
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, Card. Bacci describes gratitude and Fr. Troadec describes Mary and what we ought to me. Meek, not pushovers... meek in the proper sense.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 15 – Gaudete Sunday 3rd of Advent: We are our rites!
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, because we are our rites, we go back in time to hear something of how our forebears celebrated in St. Peter's.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 14 – Saturday 2nd Week of Advent: Frequency
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, we read from the Imitation of Christ, Benedict Baur talks about the future after confession and Fulton Sheen agrees.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 13 – Friday 2nd Week of Advent: Scandal
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, Joseph Ratzinger and Fr. Troadec help us along the Advent road.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 12 – Thursday 2nd Week of Advent: Good intentions
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, Cardinal Bacci talks about resolve and intentions. Herein, also, a prayer for priests. You will hear from the wonderful nuns of Gower Abbey.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 11 – Wednesday 2nd Week of Advent: Repentance
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, Card. Zen talks about repentance with a view of the future.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 10 – Tuesday 2nd Week of Advent: Marian Dogmas. Why?
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, St. Alphonsus talks about how God chose to save us even though He was already in perfect happiness in Himself. Also, the point of Marian dogmas.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 09 – Monday 2nd Week of Advent: Joseph
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, we hear about St Joseph's choice about Mary: Send her away? Fulton Sheen offers sage advice. I share a timely "secret".
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It's 10 December 2023 and it is the 2nd Sunday of Advent. Some time ago, I saw a movie called News of the World in which years after the Civil War a former confederate officer eeks out a living going about and reading various newspaper stories from all over to people who pay a dime a head - in today's money about 2.50. The idea caught my imagination and here I am, a gazetteer. An audio "gazette" of Catholic things. 00:13 - Init 00:56 - Le Amis du Monastère 188 from Le Barroux 09:45 - Newsletter Monastère Saint-Benoît 19, Advent 2023 13:12 - Sodality Newsletter - Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, London 31:38 - SURPRISE! 39:01 - The Wanderer 30 November 2023 - Priest Delivers Twins 43:04 - Sacristan murdered by jihadist in Cadiz-Cueta, Spain 47:40 - Exit
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 08 – 2nd Sunday of Advent: Prophecy
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, Fr. Troadec talks about the foundation of our ability to recognize the Messiah.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 07 – Saturday 1st Week of Advent: Memento
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, Fr Alfred Delp speaks from his Nazi prison in 1944. We have a reflection also on the inevitability of death which can be liberating, not oppressive.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 06 – Friday 1st Week of Advent: Immaculate
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, Fr. Troadec about Mary as Virgin of virgins. Joseph Ratzinger and St. Maximillian Kolbe pipe up too.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 05 – Thursday 1st Week of Advent: Ambrose
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, St Ambrose and one of his hymns.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 04 – Wednesday 1st Week of Advent
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2023. Today we have notes about Santa Claus, a vivid description of a crime scene, and a comforting note about our future. We hear a taste of Nicholai Presuli and a baroque surprise at the end.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 03 – Tuesday 1st Week of Advent: Time
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2023. Today, Joseph Ratzinger speaks about the time and creation full of meaning rather than emptiness. St. Alphonsus Liguori prays about being a sinner and begs for help.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 02 – Monday 1st Week of Advent: Gabriel
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2023. Today Card. Zen talks about time. We hear about Gabriel talking to Daniel and to Zechariah. There's a taste of a Byzantine Chant for Communion: The Lord Hath Sent Deliverance
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It's 3 December 2023 and it is the 1st Sunday of Advent, beginning a new liturgical year. Some time ago, I saw a movie called News of the World in which years after the Civil War a former confederate officer ekes out a living going about and reading to people who pay a dime a head various newspaper stories from all over. The idea caught my imagination and here I am, a gazetteer. An audio "gazette" of Catholic things. 00:12 - Init 00:52 - Prison Journal of Card. Pell Vol. 3. 03:34 - Anthony Esolen Tweet 07:31 - Benedictines of Mary, Newsletter 10:55 - The Wanderer 16 November Fr. Brian Harrison on orthodox priests 15:10 - The Wanderer 23 November - After School Satan Club 18:41 - Latin Mass Society Newsletter - December 2023 21:09 - Angelus July/August 2023 - City Under Siege 29:50 - Exit
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 01 – 1st Sunday of Advent: bedight with Alleluias
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2023. Today, Card. Zen reflects and Fr. Z rambles and Bl. Ildefonso amazes and Fulton Sheen... well... shines.
ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 00 - Final Saturday before Advent: "approach"
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2022. Today, St. John Henry Newman connects the two ends of the year. Fr. Z rambles. Bookend Collects. The Newman reference is Sermon 3 from Sermons Preached on Various Occasions. It is in Festivals of Faith: Sermons for the Liturgical Year by St. John Henry Newman Edited by Melinda Nielsen published by the Cenacle Press of Silverstream Abbey. You also hear from the beautiful nuns of Gower Abbey.
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An audio "gazette" of Catholic things. 00:39 Quick Re-intro 01:21 "Les Amis du Monastère" #187 10:24 QST - December 2023 14:94 Angelus - Nov/Dec 2023 17:42 Bp. Robert Barron on the Synod ("Walking Together") 26:43 Concealed Carry Magazine Nov/Dec 2023 31:33 Matthew 24 33:15 Exit
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An audio "gazette" of Catholic things. 00:00 Introduction 05:50 Livy on the Sacred Geese 09:33 The Wanderer 13:35 Crux 24:00 Catholic News Agency 31:34 Silverstream Priory 34:34 Latin Liturgy Association 40:00 Exit 41:10 Memorare in Latin You will hear sung a version of the Memorare in Latin by Neums and Tunes
PASCHALCAzT 2023 - 54: Low Sunday
Daily 5 minute podcast to aid your Easter joy. Roman Station: St. Pancras TODAY: Low Sunday or Divine Mercy Sunday? Fr. Troadec holds before our eyes the impatience on the road to Emmaus.
PASCHALCAzT 2023 - 53: Easter Saturday - Don't let your guard down
Daily 5 minute podcast to aid your Easter joy. Roman Station: St. Peter's in the Vatican TODAY: Divine Mercy or Dominica "in albis"? Fr. Troadec offers superb advice about living day by day.
PASCHALCAzT 2023 - 52: Easter Friday - Getting the demons out
Daily 5 minute podcast to aid your Easter joy. Roman Station: St. Peter's in the Vatican TODAY: We hear and account of the terrifying exorcism of the ancient pagan Pantheon in Rome when Boniface IV consecrated it as a church in honor of Mary of the Martyrs. Bl. Ildefonso remarks on the need not to coast.
PASCHALCAzT 2023 - 51: Easter Thursday - Two little words
Daily 5 minute podcast to aid your Easter joy. Roman Station: Santi Dodici Apostoli TODAY: Fr. Troadec drills into two little words
PASCHALCAzT 2023 - 50: Easter Wednesday - St Augustine to the newly baptized
Daily 5 minute podcast to aid your Easter joy. Roman Station: St. Peter's in the Vatican TODAY: St. Augustine explains the situation
PASCHALCAzT 2023 - 49: Easter Tuesday - Two complementary aspects of holiness
Daily 5 minute podcast to aid your Easter joy. Roman Station: St. Paul's outside-the-walls TODAY: Fr. Troadec on the two complementary aspects of holiness. We also hear what my home parish sounded like on Easter Sunday and why I am, in many respects, who and what I am today.
PASCHALCAzT 2023 - 48: Easter Monday - Octaves
Daily 5 minute podcast to aid your Easter joy. Roman Station: St. Peter's in the Vatican TODAY: The true source of happiness
PASCHALCAzT 2023 - 47: Of men and angels
Daily 5 minute podcast to aid your Easter joy! Roman Station: Santa Maria Maggiore TODAY: Fulton Sheen and a surprise.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 46: Holy Saturday - Waiting
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: ... TODAY: Fr. Troadec and Bl. Ildefonso team up
LENTCAzT 2023 - 45: Good Friday - Abandonment
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Croce TODAY: Fulton Sheen on the great cry of Christ.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 44: Maundy Thursday - Priests
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: St. John Lateran TODAY: Thoughts on the Eucharist and priesthood
LENTCAzT 2023 – 43: Spy Wednesday – The Crucifixion is the summary of Catholic belief.
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: St. Mary Major Collect: St. Peter in Chains TODAY: Bl. Ildefonso gives us an astonishing view of the Crucifixion
LENTCAzT 2023 - 42: Holy Tuesday - The Passion of St. Peter
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Prisca Collect: Santa Maria in Portico TODAY: We hear of the parallel "passion" endured by Peter while Christ was suffering His own.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 41: Holy Monday - The second time
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Prasede Collect: Santa Balbina TODAY: We hear about the anointing of the Lord's feet with the precious nard.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 40: Palm Sunday - Hosanna... now.
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: St. John Lateran TODAY: Bl. Ildefonso and Pius Parsch bring us into the drama and significance of this royal day.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 39: Saturday Passiontide - The hour is coming.
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: St John at the Latin Gate TODAY: The Martyrdom of John and the separation of the sheep and the goats.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 38: Friday Passiontide - Our Lady of Sorrows
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santo Stefano Rotondo Collect: Sts. John and Paul TODAY: One week out from Good Friday, Pius Parsch delves into the complementarity of the ferial Mass formulary and that of the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 37: Thursday Passiontide - The counterpart to the Prodigal Son
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Sant'Apollinare Collect: Santa Maria in Via Lata TODAY: A moving account of the repentance and conversion of St. Mary Magdalen
LENTCAzT 2023 - 36: Wednesday Passiontide - There are only two camps
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: San Marcello in Via Lata Collect: San Marco TODAY: Fr. Troadec describes two camps into which the world is divided.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 35: Tuesday Passiontide - When the hour comes
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Sabina TODAY: Sticking to Fr. Troadec brings us to a meditation on endurance and waiting upon divine Providence.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 34: Monday Passiontide - Repent and live!
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: San Crisogono Collect: San Giorgio in Velabro TODAY: We hear about the conversion of the Ninevites at the preaching of Jonah while those to whom Jesus preached rejected His message.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 33: 1st Passion Sunday - Passiontide begins
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Sabina TODAY: Bl. Ildefonso Schuster talks of his times... no, our times. Yes, our times. Fr. Troadec reaffirms for us our determination for Passiontide.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 32: Saturday 4th Week - Annunciation
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: San Nicola in carcere Collect: Sant'Angelo in piscibus TODAY: We hear about the pivotal moment in all of time and a prayer we say at Holy Mass.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 31: Friday 4th Week - Dead but rising
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Sant'Eusebio Collect: San Vito TODAY: Bl. Ildefonso gives insights into the raising of Lazarus and the Sacrament of Penance.
LENTCAzT 2023 – 30: Thursday 4th Week - Eternal death and YOU - CORRECTED
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti Collect: Santi Quirico e Giulitta TODAY: We hear about the widow of Naim is a figure of the Church and her dead son is like those who are in mortal sin
LENTCAzT 2023 - 29: The Ancient Mid-Point
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: St. Paul's outside-the-walls Collect: St. Mennas TODAY: In ancient times, before Lent was lengthened this was the mid-point. Today the catechumens underwent rites that are retained in our traditional form of Baptism today, the placing of salt in their mouths and the "ear-opener", the teaching of the Creed and Our Father, three exorcisms. We hear the first of these exorcisms, which had different introductions for men and for women. Yes, they thought that there were two sexes and that men and women weren't the same.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 28: Tuesday 4th Week - "What abundance! What generosity!"
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: San Lorenzo in Damaso Collect: Santa Maria Domnae Rosae TODAY: Fr. Troadec talks about the figurative sense of the Gospel passage from last Sunday.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 26: Monday 4th Week - St. Joseph - Help of the dying
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santi Quatro Coronati Collect: Santo Stefano Rotondo TODAY: We hear from Fr. Troadec and from Fr. Calloway.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 26: 4th Sunday of Lent - Joy
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Croce in Gerusaleme Fr. Troadec talks about joy at this point in Lent, even as we look towards the Passion.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 25: Saturday 3rd Week - Getting it right after doing it wrong
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Susanna (but really at Santa Maria della Vittoria Collect: San Vitale TODAY: Connections between the Station and the Readings from Daniel and about the "adulteress" brought to Jesus.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 24: Friday 3rd Week of Lent - Burn, baby, BURN!
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: San Lorenzo in Lucina Collect: Santa Maria ad martyres TODAY: Fr. Troadec. He just gets better and better. Today we hear about the fire that ought to be burning in us.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 23: Thursday 3rd Week - Jesus applies the remedies
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Ss. Cosma e Damiano Collect: San Marco TODAY: I'm sticking with Fr. Troadec again, who just gets better and better. He talks today about the remedies that the Lord applies (from Himself) to us in our misery (and sinfulness). Sometimes remedies are hard to swallow. One in particular.
LENTCAzT 2023 – 22: Wednesday 3rd Week – Whom Christ loves and what He despises
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: San Sisto Collect: Santa Balbina TODAY: I stick to my guns with Fr. Troadec. He hits it out of the park today.
LENTCAzT 2023 – 21: Tuesday 3rd Week – Help and hospitality
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Pudenziana Collect: Santi Sergio e Bacco TODAY: Bl. Ildefonso Schuster gives us two salutary points stemming from the Mass text. Firstly, are we alone? And then, about hospitality.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 20: Monday 3rd Week - Washing Naaman
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: San Marco Collect: Sant'Adriano in the Roman Forum TODAY: From hearing about Naaman the Syrian we move to a daily activity we should never omit.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 19: 3rd Sunday of Lent - Fighting the demon of impurity
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: San Lorenzo fuori-le-mura TODAY: Gregory The Great says that the demon of the Gospel is a devil of impurity, the one the most responsible for the damnation of many. How to combat this demon.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 18: Saturday 2nd Week - Confession notes
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Ss. Marcelino e Pietro Collect: San Clemente TODAY: Some notes helpful for confession
LENTCAzT 2023 - 17: Friday 2nd Week of Lent
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: San Vitale Collect: Sant Agata dei Gotti TODAY: We hear about envy.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 16: Thursday 2nd Week of Lent - Hell on Earth or Heaven on Earth?
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Maria in Trastevere Collect: San Crisogono TODAY: Pius Parsch helps us see the linked between the figures of penitents in the first part of Lent and also talks about what Hell is, in anticipation of it, and what Heaven is.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 15: Wednesday 2nd Week of Lent - More about your death
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Cecilia in Trastevere - Collect: San Giorgio TODAY: We go across the river to this storied Station and then hear more from Thomas a Kempis about our unavoidable death and the possible dire consequences of not taking this fact seriously.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 14: Tuesday 2nd Week of Lent: Melancholy and fear or compassion and joy?
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Balbina. No Collect. Today: Insights into Christians who have contrary dispositions. Are you one of them? Remarks about the Angelic Doctor on his traditional Feast.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 13: Monday 2nd Week of Lent: Up the Mountain
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: San Clemente Collect: Santi Cosma e Damiano TODAY: Benedict XVI talks about transfiguration(s)
LENTCAzT 2023 - 12: 2nd Sunday of Lent - Sticking to Tradition
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Maria in Domnica TODAY: Bl. Ildefonso has a brief, beautiful insight into the importance of adhering to our traditions. We learn that once there was no Roman Station church today because - get this - there was no SUNDAY MASS in Rome on this day. Why?
LENTCAzT 2023 - 11: Ember Saturday in Lent: Transfiguration
Roman Station: St. Peters Collect: Santa Maria in Traspontina TODAY: We hear about the Saturday Ember Day and St. Peter's Basilica and then Fr. Troadec helps us out about the Transfiguration.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 10: Ember Friday 1st Week of Lent - Regret... to late
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santi Dodici Apostoli - Collect: San Marco TODAY: We hear of the amazing church which is the Station. Thomas a Kempis sobers us up.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 09: Thursday 1st Week of Lent - When God is harsh with us.
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: San Lorenzo in Panisperna. The Collect church is Sant'Agata dei Goti. Today we hear a bit about the amazing number of church in Rome dedicated to St. Lawrence. Also, we have a gloss on why it seems that God can be harsh with us sometimes. Christ was harsh with the Canaanite woman. What's up with that?
LENTCAzT 2023 - 08: Ember Wednesday in the 1st Week of Lent: Deathbed repentance
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Collect Church is San Pietro in Vincoli and the Roman Station is Santa Maria Maggiore. It is Ember Wednesday in Lent, so we hear briefly about Ember Days. Then we continue with some sobering thoughts from Thomas a Kempis about death. "Death bed conversions" or "repentance". Possible? Maybe... but are you going to risk your soul on it? TODAY:
LENTCAzT 2023 – 07: Tuesday 1st Week of Lent – Blindness
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Sant'Anastasia (Collect: San Nicola in Carcere) Fr. Troadec explores blindness and prayer.
LentcazLENTCAzT 2023 – 06: Monday 1st Week of Lent – Certainty
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: St. Peter in Chains (Collect Sts. Cosmas and Damian) We begin some reflections on the one thing that is certain but that we cannot predict.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 05: 1st Sunday of Lent - Forty
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: St. John Lateran. No Collect church today. Today we hear from Fr. Troadec about the importance of 40. Bl. Ildefonso cites St. Gregory the Great on what it means for us that Christ was tempted by Satan in the desert.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 04: Saturday after Ash Wednesday - Gossip
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Sabina. The Collect: S. Lorenzo in Lucina. Today we hear the Prayer Over the People after visiting the Roman Station. Then Fr. Troadec gives us a stout dose of medicine about how harmful sins of the tongue can be.
LENTCAzT 2023 – 03: Friday after Ash Wednesday - Feast of St. Matthew
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Sts. John and Paul on the Coelian Hill (Collect: S. Lucia in Septizonio) We hear from the Gospel of Matthew and I pull apart the Collect that commemorates the ferial Friday.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 02: Thursday after Ash Wednesday
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: San Giorgio in Velabro (Collect: San Nicola in Carcere) Today we hear about the military character of the Gospel, connected to the Station. Also we introduce the "Prayer over the people", characteristic of Masses in Lent. Finally, there is a connection between the Oratio, preparation for death and the prayer the priest should recite before Mass about his intention. EGO VOLO celebrare Missam, et conficere Corpus et Sanguinem Domini nostri Iesu Christi, iuxta ritum sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae, ad laudem omnipotentis Dei totiusque Curiae triumphantis, ad utilitatem meam totiusque Curiae militantis, pro omnibus, qui se commendaverunt orationibus meis in genere et in specie, et pro felici statu sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae. GAUDIUM cum pace, emendationem vitae, spatium verae paenitentiae, gratiam et consolationem Sancti Spiritus, perseverantiam in bonis operibus, tribuat nobis omnipotens et misericors Dominus. Amen MY PURPOSE is to celebrate Mass and to make present the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ according to the rite of the holy Roman Church to the praise of our all-powerful God and all His assembly in the glory of heaven, for my good and the good of all His pilgrim Church on earth, and for all who have asked me to pray for them in general and in particular, and for the good of the holy Roman Church. MAY the almighty and merciful Lord grant us joy and peace, amendment of life, room for true repentance, the grace and comfort of the Holy Spirit and perseverance in good works. Amen.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 01: Ash Wedesday - We all fall down.
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, some notes about the beautiful responsory from the Blessing of Ashes, Emendemus in melius. We hear the second prayer of the blessing of ashes and attend to today Roman Station, which is Santa Sabina on the Aventine Hill.
LENTCAzT 2023 - 00: Shrove Tuesday - reminders
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we hear what "Shrove" means as in Shrove Tuesday, another name for "Fat Tuesday" or "Mardi Gras". What is Lent called and why? We have a few reminders about Roman Stations and purpose of Lent.