Fr. Z's PODCAzTs

Here is ADVENTCAzT 23, for Monday 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, Pius Parsch talks about the mystery of our failing and of our sins in the light of God's plan for us. Card. Bacci on Christ's swaddling clothes.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 21, for the 4th Sunday of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today, Pius Parsch sums up the 4th Sunday which itself is a summary! Fr. Troadec warns us about a spiritual trap.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 21, for Ember Saturday in the 3rd Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today, Card. Bacci explains what primary resolution we should make as we gaze at the Christ Child in the manger. Pius Parsch tries to put the mosaic pieces together.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 20, for Ember Friday in the 3rd Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today, Edward Sri about the amazing parallels in Scripture which reveal Mary as the new Ark of the Covenant. And we hear the next O Antiphon, O Adonai.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 19, for Thursday in the 3rd Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today, we hear from Fr. Troadec about the O Antiphons and then Pius Parsch explains the logical progression of the themes of the Antiphons. Oh yes... we also hear the first O Antiphon, O Sapientia.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 18, for Ember Wednesday in the 3rd Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today, Pius Parsch fills us in on the antiquity of Ember Days. St. Leo the Great preaches from the 5th century to us about fasting.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 17, for Tuesday in the 3rd Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today, Card. Bacci talks about how to obey God and "be perfect", even though that's impossible. Fr. Gabriel in Divine Intimacy talks about our senses.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 16, for Monday in the 3rd Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today, starting on Paul's admonition to the Philippians, Fr. Troadec teaches us about "meekness", called also "gentleness" and "forbearance". Card. Bacci talks about true success.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 15, for the 3rd Sunday of Advent, "Gaudete!" These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today Pius Parsch presents a dialogue between a discouraged soul and Holy Mother Church.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 14, for Saturday in the 2nd Week of Advent. It is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. During his first visit abroad as Pope, John Paul II prayed before the tilma of Our Lady of Guadalupe. We hear his prayer. And we also hear a brief, intense prayer of Card. Bacci. Voces8 sing to us on their Equinox album. And from the "new world" Domenico Zipoli plays an Offertory piece.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 13, for Friday in the 2nd Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Fr. Troadec talks about the scandal of the Lord and about our own time of trial. Fulton Sheen gives sinners an encouragement. A priest's prayer before his own Communion.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 12, for Thursday in the 2nd Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Robert Card. Sarah reflects on the silence of Mary. Card. Bacci talks about peace of soul. We hear a hymn from the monks of Le Barroux.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 11, for Wednesday in the 2nd Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today, Joseph Ratzinger teaches us about the Marian dogmas. Card. Bacci gives us a gut check about how we are living. We also hear from the CD of music for Advent by the wonderful Benedictines of Gower Abbey.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 10, for Tuesday in the 2nd Week of Advent, Feast of the Immaculate Conception. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today, Joseph Ratzinger teaches us about the mystery of stillness. Fr. Troadec pours out praise for our beautiful Blessed Mother, immaculately conceived.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 08, for the 2nd Sunday of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today Card. Bacci quotes de Maistre about the danger of "science" on its own... COVID-1984 anyone?!? Fr. Troadec talks about three kinds of souls who desire perfection.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 08, for the 2nd Sunday of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today we hear Joseph Ratzinger about what keeps driving us forward.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 07, for Saturday in the 1st Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today we hear Card. Bacci what it Jesus meant when he said that we must "hate our life in this world". Bp. Bossuet gives us a fervent prayer. Fulton Sheen pipes in with a dose of reality.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 06, for Friday in the 1st Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today we hear about what will take place at the General Judgment. Fulton Sheen gives an insight into how God comes to us. Pius Parsch talks about our vocations.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 05, for Thursday in the 1st Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today we hear about dissipated souls from Cardinal Bacci. We also pray for priests.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 04, for Wedesday in the 1st Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today we hear about our twofold renewal at the end of the world. We have also an alarming image about our Advent preparation from Abbot Gueranger.

These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today we hear about the Prophet Nahum. We have a beautiful prayer by St. Thomas Aquinas. We also hear from the CD of music for Advent by the wonderful Benedictines of Gower Abbey.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 02, for Monday in the 1st Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today we hear about St. Andrew's place at the beginning of Advent and at the end of the liturgical year. We have some additional insight from Antonio Card. Bacci. We also hear from the CD of music for Advent by the wonderful Benedictines of Gower Abbey.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 01, for the 1st Sunday of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors. Thank you! Chime in if you listened. Today we hear about the place of Advent in the liturgical year. We have some additional insight from Fr. Patrick Troadec. The opening chant is the Introit from the 1st Sunday of Advent, Ad te levavi. We also hear music for Advent by the wonderful Benedictines of Gower Abbey.

In 400, or thereabouts, in St. Augustine's see of Hippo, a 'miles', a soldier, probably a kind of police officer, did something very bad. He probably killed someone. The town went nuts and rioted and they lynched him. The mob is still howling for more vengeance. It is, apparently, ongoing. One of the things that Augustine reaffirms is that mobs do not have authority and that every is going to render an account of their part in the riots. He gives concrete advise about how to shut down the violence, keep it from erupting again.

Bp. Schneider has called for a Crusade of Eucharistic Reparation. He released a text on his site, Gloria Dei, about sins against the Blessed Sacrament, offences against our Lord in the Eucharist, and the need of such a coordinated campaign. Let’s hear what Bp. Schneider has to say in his text. I read the whole text from Bp. Schneider's site, make some comments after with some recommendations for ACTION! and then read also the PRAYER that Bp. Schneider attached for the same Crusade.

I offer some thoughts, and a brief reading from, the prolifically indefatigable Peter Kwasniewski, a copy of which recently arrived: Reclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright: The Genius and Timeliness of the Traditional Latin Mass Also, I answer here a question from a reader... QUAERITUR: How do we know for certain that a Novus Ordo Mass (done well) is not evil?

Today is the Easter Octave Sunday, or Dominica in albis, for the white baptismal garments of those who were recently baptized. It is sometimes called “Thomas Sunday” because of the Gospel reading about the "doubting" Apostle. It is also famously called “Quasimodo Sunday” for the first word of the opening chant, the Introit (cf. 1 Peter 2:2-3). It is called “Low Sunday” probably in contrast to the hoopla of last Sunday. Oh yes… now it is often called “Mercy Sunday” because of the emphasis on the dimension of the mercy of God’s redemptive act celebrated at Easter. The newest, third edition of the Missale Romanum of 2002 specifically labels this Sunday: Dominica II Paschae seu de divina Misericordia. The Roman Station is St. Pancras on the Gianicolo Hill. Today we wrap things up in the final podcast for Lent and Easter cycle, with wisdom from Card. Bacci and from Fulton J. Sheen.

Today is Easter Saturday! The Roman Station is St. John Lateran. We were here one week ago for the Vigil of Easter. I rant a little and then share something related to my rant from Fr. Troadec's books.

Today is Easter Friday! The Roman Station is Santa Maria ad martyres, once the ancient temple to all the pagan gods, the Pantheon. I rant a little, and do not exclude my observations about Pachamama on the altar of St. Peter's Basilica. The wonderful nuns of Gower Abbey take us in and out… toward the Ascension.

Today is Easter Thursday! The Roman Station is Santi Dodici Apostoli, the Twelve Holy Apostles. The relics of the Apostles James the Lesser and Philip are here. Also, find the tomb of Pope Clement XIV, who suppressed the Jesuits. Card. Bacci gives us a sobering thought in the midst of our Easter joy. Fr. Patrick Troadec of the SSPX presents Mary Magdalene and her great love for Christ. Today I'm still thinking of Paris and the yesterday's anniversary of the burning of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. I used a recording of the Cathedral's bells yesterday. Today, we are back in Paris, listening to, among other things, the bells of Saint-Nicholas du Chardonnay.

Today is Easter Wednesday! The Roman Station is St. Lawrence outside the walls. I talk about what it is like to be a convert. Also, we hear about the 7 Pilgrimage Churches in Rome. Fulton Sheen gives us a look at the human heart. Today is the sad anniversary of the burning of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, a horrible sight. We hear music from their great choir, the huge "bourdon" bell ringing, and a recording I made of the bells of the north tower when I was in Paris a couple of years ago.

Today is Easter Monday! The Roman Station is St. Paul's outside the walls. A few years ago, the tomb of the Apostle was rediscovered. I am happy again to read today from the new English translation of Fr. Patrick Troadec’s work Toward Easter. I don’t have to translate from the French original now. He talks about real peace, Christ's peace.

Today is Easter Monday! The Roman Station is St. Peter's Basilica. I am happy to read again today from the new English translation of Fr. Patrick Troadec’s work Toward Easter. I don’t have to translate from the French original now.

Today is Easter Sunday! The Roman Station tonight for the Mass of the Day on Easter Sunday is St. Mary Major. Card. Bacci speaks of the personal impact of "resurrection". Fulton Sheen about what is really important. One of the pieces today, the first part of the Introit for Easter is from my home parish in St. Paul, St. Agnes. I'm in the schola that made this recording way back in the 1980s. I also have some bells from the Duomo of Florence, Italy, for a friend.

Today is Holy Saturday in the Triduum. The Roman Station tonight for the Vigil Mass is St. John Lateran. Card. Bacci gives us a note about what we ought to live for. Fulton Sheen about Mary... simply wonderful. The wonderful nuns of Gower Abbey take us out… toward Easter Sunday.

Today is Good Friday in the Triduum. The Roman Station is Santa Croce in Gerusaleme. We were here on the 4th Sunday of Lent. This is where St Helena placed the relics of the Passion which she had brought back from the Holy Land. Card. Bacci offers pointed thoughts about the thorns and our thoughts.

Today is Holy Thursday in the Triduum. The Roman Station is St. John Lateran. Today we hear a reflection on priesthood by Pope Benedict XVI in his sermon for the 2006 Chrism Mass.

Today is Spy Wednesday of Holy Week. It's the last full day of Lent. The Roman Station is Santa Maria Maggiore. We were here five weeks ago. Ven. Fulton J. Sheen talks about how Christ borrowed things from time to time and what that can mean for us. The Benedictines of Gower Abbey sing to us.

Today is Monday in Holy Week. Closer day by day. The Roman Station is Santa Prassede all'Esquilino, one of the original parish churches of Rome. Here is kept part of the pillar at which Christ was scourged, brought back to Rome by St. Helena. Today Cardinal Bacci gives us another beautiful meditation, this time on Christ's Cross and, consequently, your cross.

Today is Tuesday in Holy Week. Closer day by day. The Roman Station is Santa Prisca. We aren't sure who she was, but there is a really cool tradition about her. Fr. Troadec reflects on the Passion according to Mark, which we hear today in Holy Mass in the Traditional Roman Rite. Fulton Sheen gives us an image of unhappy souls. In these podcasts I sometimes use snips from this lovely disc of music: Motecta Trium Vocum. Today's choice is about someone longing for the Eucharist: Desidero mi Iesu.

Today is Palm Sunday. Holy Week begins. The Roman Station is San Giovanni in Laterano, the Cathedral of Rome. We are today one week from Easter. Almost there. Today I rant a little with practical tips about how you might beneficially participate from afar in the sacred rites of this most Holy Week.

Today is Saturday in the 5th Week of Lent - Passiontide. It's the last day before Holy Week. The Roman Station is San Giovanni a Porta Latina, where the pagans tried to murder St. John the Apostle and Evangelist. We are today one week from the Easter Vigil. Almost there.

Today is Friday in the 5th Week of Lent - Passiontide. The Roman Station is Santo Stefano Rotondo in Monte Celio, the round basilica. We are today one week from Good Friday. As such it is the feast of our lady of Sorrows.

Today is Thursday in the 5th Week of Lent - Passiontide. The Roman Station is Sant'Apollinare alle Terme Neroniane-Alessandrine near the Piazza Navona. I am happy to read again today from the new English translation of Fr. Patrick Troadec's work Toward Easter. I don’t have to translate from the French original now. Today we hear about Mary Magdalene.

Today is Wednesday in the 5th Week of Lent - Passiontide. The Roman Station is Santa Marcello. Today St. Bernard helps us to an understanding of Christ's most agonizing physical wound during His Passion. The Benedictines of Gower Abbey sing to us.

Today is Tuesday in the 5th Week of Lent - Passiontide. The Roman Station is Santa Maria in Via Lata. I am excited to read today from the new English translation of Fr. Patrick Troadec, SSPX, work Toward Easter. I don't have to translate from the French original now. Father talks about how we should be ready to suffer for Christ but also about being prudent.

Today is Monday in the 5th Week of Lent - Passiontide. The Roman Station is San Crisogono in Tratevere. What we must do when we realized we have sinned.

Today is 1st Passion Sunday, the 5th Sunday of Lent. The Roman Station is St. Peter’s Basilica on the Vatican Hill. This podcast intends to help you get ready to die... liturgically

It's Saturday in the 4th Week of Lent. The Roman Station is San Nicola in carcere. I have a personal connection to this church from my time in seminary onward. Alban Goodier helps us to see what a seemingly small gesture of kindness made to the centurion at the foot of Christ's Cross.

It's Friday in the 4th Week of Lent. The Roman Station is Sant'Eusebio. Joseph Ratzinger gives us a reality check in one of his meditations for the Stations of the Cross.