Fr. Z's PODCAzTs

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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?

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.

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.

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?

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Today we reach back to the year of Our Lord 2019 and my podcast for the Feast of the Holy Innocents.

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Today we reach back to the year of Our Lord 2013 and my podcast for the Feast of St. Stephen. We hear from Joseph Ratzinger, about those who can see and those who can't. St. Fulgentius of Ruspe fills us in on Stephen. I think I had a cold.

A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and now, at last Christmas 2022. Today, Card. Bacci on the best gifts to give Jesus on His Birthday. Bl. Ildefonso ties together a threefold parousia in the Feast of Christmas. Fr. Parsch on the three different births we celebrate at Christmas.

A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2022. Today, Fr. Troadec talks about the night in Bethlehem. We hear form Ven. Pauline Jaricot. Card. Bacci invokes St. Joseph.

A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2022. Today, we hear about "Ero Cras!". Sr. Noble helps the wind into our sails.

A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2022. Today, We hear of how the Mary, filled from within by the overflowing divine presence experienced joy as no other ever could. Card. Bacci and John of the Cross help us towards joy in this vale of tears.

A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2022. Today, we hear about Light and Darkness. Then Canon Croegaert introduces The Sign of the Cross with which we begin Holy Mass.

A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2022. Today, we hear the Scriptural connection between the image of David's Key in today's O Antiphon and the Petrine Ministry that endures in the Church. St. Noble talks about the beauty of St. Joseph's obedience and what it means as a model for us who face death.