Fr. Z's PODCAzTs

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Saint John Lateran. Today is Holy Thursday in the Triduum. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! (While you can.) Fr. Troadec comments on the most important event human history. Fulton Sheen talks about "the remedy". We hear the wonderful Benedictines of Gower Abbey who NEED YOUR HELP. Easter is coming soon! You got your music for Lent in advance. How about music for Easter?

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Saint Mary Major. Today is Wednesday in Holy Week. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! (While you can.) Fulton Sheen speaks the treatment of Christ by the soldiers. Pius Parsch reflects on the two readings from Isaiah in the Traditional Mass. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Santa Prisca. Today is Tuesday in Holy Week. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! (While you can.) Fr. Troadec reflects on the Lord's silence as He suffered. Card. Bacci reminds us that we are never not in God's presence. Think about that when contemplating a sin. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and th blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Sante Prassede. Today is Monday in Holy Week. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! (While you can.) Fr. Troadec looks into the second anointing of the Lord's feet. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is St. John Lateran. Today is Palm Sunday in Holy Week. We've arrived Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! I talk about "sacramental reality" and how to participate if you can't go to church. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is St. John at the Latin Gate. Today is Saturday in the 5th Week of Lent. We are in Passiontide. This is the last day before Holy Week. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! We hear about the martyrdom of John the Evangelist. Card. Bacci then talks about our own martyrdom. Do you know about my Our Lady of Sorrows Project? I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Santo Stefano Rotondo. Today is Friday in the 5th Week of Lent. We are in Passiontide. It is also the Feast of the Our Lady of Sorrows. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! We talk about Our Lady of Sorrows and then Fulton Sheen chimes in. Do you know about my Our Lady of Sorrows Project?

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Sant'Apollinare. Today is Thursday in the 5th Week of Lent. We are in Passiontide. It is also the Feast of the Annunciation, the moment of the Incarnation of the Lord. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Fr. Troadec looks into the Annunciation and Card. Bacci gives us a GREAT tip for spiritual advancement. Soooo easy and yet soooo difficult. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is San Marcello al Corso. Today is Wednesday in the 5th Week of Lent. We are in Passiontide. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Fr. Troadec talks about two camps. You have to belong to the one or the other. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is San Ciricao (S. M. in Via Lata). Today is Tuesday in the 5th Week of Lent. We are in Passiontide. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Card. Bacci gives good advice about getting the rough edges off our Christian character. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is San Crisogono. Today is Monday in the 5th Week of Lent. We are in Passiontide. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Fr. Troadec on conversion and grace, how the penance of Lent draws graces down upon us. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is San Pietro. Today is 1st Passion Sunday 5th Sunday Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Our identity with the Church's calendar and the calendar of our lives. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is San Nicola in Carcere. Today is Saturday in the 4th Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Fr. Troadec refers to the prophecies which pointed to Our Lord as Savior. What more could Christ have given us? I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is St. Eusebius. Today is Friday in the 4th Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! It is the Feast of St. Joseph! Combatting Arianism. Card. Bacci talks about our attitude in work. Another amazing insight from Fulton Sheen. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Ss. Silvestro e Martino ai Monti. Today is Thursday in the 4th Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Combatting Arianism. Card. Bacci talks about our attitude in work. Another amazing insight from Fulton Sheen. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is St. Paul's outside the walls. Today is Wednesday in the 4th Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Did you know there was a mile long covered walkway from Rome to the Basilica? A brief explanation of the preparation of catechumens in the ancient Church and how the customs were absorbed into the Traditional rite of Baptism. Fulton Sheen makes a point never to be forgotten. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is San Lorenzo in Damaso. Today is Tuesday in the 4th Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! A reference to "cheese heads". Three great tribunals of the Church. The meaning and the power of tears is explained by St. Ambrose of Milan. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Santi Quatro Coronati. Today is Monday in the 4th Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Card. Bacci on obedience. The Benedictines of Gower sing. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. Today is 4th Sunday of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! We talk about the Roman Basilica which houses relics of the Passion and why we use Rose colored vestments today. Fr. Troadec muses about joy even in the midst of penance. Laetare! I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Santa Susanna. Today is Saturday of the 3rd Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Card. Bacci talks about love of prayer and Russians sing about prayer arising. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is San Lorenzo in Lucina. Today is Friday of the 3rd Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Fulton Sheen really works us over today.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Sts Cosmas and Damian. Today is Thursday of the 3rd Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Twins are featured today, and we have a powerful reminder from Fr. Troadec about a critical aspect of getting to heaven. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is San Sisto. Today is Wednesday of the 3rd Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! We hear a new voice today, from a new book published by Sophia Institute Press, The Pain of Christ and the Sorrow of God by Gerald Vann. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Santa Pudenziana. Today is Tuesday of the 3rd Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! We hear about the Roman Station, where Peter may have said his first Mass in Rome. We hear also about "cancelling". I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is San Marco. Today is Monday of the 3rd Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Pius Parsch talks about humility and tests of life. Card. Bacci makes pointed observations about the limits, and dangers, of science and knowledge. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is San Lawrence outside the Walls. Today is 3rd Sunday of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! We hear about the Patriarchal (Papal) Basilicas of Rome and the ancients sees with which they are associated. Card. Bacci gives an insight into St. Thomas Aquinas. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Santi Marcellino e Pietro. Today is Saturday in the 2nd Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! It's hard to be brothers. Fr Troadec opines. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is San Vitale. Today is Friday in the 2nd Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! St. Augustine on how to get the Savior to answer prayers. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Santa Maria in Trastevere. Today is Thursday in the 2nd Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Card. Bacci on true riches. Fulton Sheen: this is the most talkative age of the world. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Santa Cecilia. Today is Wednesday in the 2nd Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Card. Bacci on our state of life and how we choose to accept it or fight it. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Santa Balbina. Today is Monday in the 2nd Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Fr. Troadec on the disciples of Jesus and the Pharisees. Fulton Sheen on harvesting our favors. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is the fascinating San Clemente. Today is Monday in the 2nd Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Cad. Bacci talks about living normal life in the normal course of events. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Santa Maria in Domnica. Today is the 2nd Sunday of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Square halos. Fr. Troadec speaks of how to be "perfect" as our Father in heaven is perfect. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is St. Peter's Basilica. Today is Ember Saturday in the 1st Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Ratzinger explains the order of the Ember Days. Card. Bacci drills into fasting and abstaining. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Santi Dodici Apostoli. Today is Ember Friday in the 1st Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! In the description of the station church we hear about the number 38 and about the tomb of Pope Clement XIV. Fr. Troadec talks about the hope of the man who was sick for 38 years.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is San Lorenzo in Panisperna. Today is Thursday in the 1st Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Card. Bacci hits us in the face with the snap of a cold, wet towel.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Santa Maria Maggiore. It's also the Feast of St. Matthew. Today is Ember Wednesday in the 1st Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! A new view of a Psalm.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Sant'Anastasia al Palatino. The saint in named in the Roman Canon. Today is Tuesday in the 1st Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Fr. Troadec talks about the need for simplicity of faith, without pride. We heard about the Oratio super populum, a feature of the Masses on weekdays of Lent.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is San Pietro in Vincoli. Today is Monday in the 1st Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! It's the Feast of the Cathedra of St. Peter. Card. Bacci gives good advice about when bad things happen to us.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is St. John Lateran. Today is 1st Sunday of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Fr. Troadec talks about great figures who guide us during Lent and what Lent is for.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is San Trifone (Sant'Agostino) in Campo Marzio. Today is Saturday after Ash Wednesday. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Pope Benedict XVI speaks about truth and our path in life and conversion in Lent.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Ss. Giovanni e Paolo. Today is Friday after Ash Wednesday. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! The Sacrament of Penance is presented by Fulton Sheen. Card. Bacci talks about St. Charles Borromeo. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is San Giorgio in Velabro. Today is Thursday after Ash Wednesday. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Card. Bacci and St. John Henry Newman talk about self denial. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this blog.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. The Roman Station today is Santa Sabina. Today is Ash Wednesday, it is a day of fast and abstinence. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! We hear about Roman Stations today. The beautiful nuns of Gower Abbey sing to us US HERE – UK HERE. Fr. Troadec reflects on our dusty condition [US HERE].

We begin again a series of daily 5 minute podcasts for Lent. They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. Today is Shrove Tuesday, a day upon which many would seek to be "shriven" before the beginning of Lent. In other words GO TO CONFESSION! Today is also called "Fat Tuesday". When the discipline of Lent was more serious in the Latin Church, this was the last day you could eat animal fats, etc. To be good Catholic Christians our lives must take on the qualities of the mysteries we profess. We are our rites. Let our lives reflect what the Church offers liturgically all through Lent.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 27, for Christmas. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today, Fr. Troadec on the night of Christmas. Fulton Sheen speaks to the ongoing work of Christ.

St Pope Leo the Great was Pope in a tough time. Think Vandals, Goths and Attila the Huns. He had been deacon to Pope Sixtus III and was in charge of the mosaic decorations of the beautiful arch in St Mary Major, which presents an anti-Manichean theology reflected in his later sermons as Pope. He point the exclamation point on correct Christology of the Council Chalcedon. St. Leo's Latin was terrific. It has the concision of the ancient Roman genius and it sparkles with polished tropes and clausulae, rhythmic endings of sentences. His Latin comes alive again when read aloud. The sermons are well structured with an introduction, examples, and exhortation. Benedict XIV Lambertini (you can have your own Benedict XIV coffee mug (www.cafepress.com/frzsstore/14535091) named him Doctor of the Church in 1754. Leo died in 461 and his tomb is in the Vatican Basilica. The great marble relief of him facing down Attila was recently cleaned and restored. We have Leo's Christmas sermons from 440-44 and 50-54. This sermon, the most famous because it is quoted in the nocturns of Matins for Christmas, was preached in the old basilica of St Peter on Christmas Day of 440. 1580 years ago today. Let's hear the English first, and then the Latin. I hope its message of hope and joy and encouragement rings in your ears for this whole Christmas season.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 26, for the Vigil of Christmas. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today, Fr. Troadec conditions for receiving grace. Fulton Sheen gives excellent vocational advice. Pius Parsch starts with a little liturgical pointer.

ADVENTCAzT 2020 25: “Pollution of the temple" These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today, Fr. Troadec explains dryness of the soul. Peter Kwasniewski talks about how many have tried to eliminate kneeling, with the inevitable result.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 24, for Tuesday in the 4th Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today, Fr. Troadec has an insight about a form of stinginess, avarice, peculiar to our times.