Fr. Z's PODCAzTs

The Roman Station is the Cathedral of Rome the Archbasilica of the Holy Savior and St. John the Evangelist and St. John the Baptist in the Lateran.

RESOLUTIONS To progress in our prayer life: hold ourselves in the presence of God by carefully keeping silence of eyes and ears, forgetting ourselves; be more faithful to morning and evening prayer; attend Mass during the week or make a spiritual communion; take greater care with our thanksgiving; say the rosary; make a visit to the Blessed Sacrament or spend a few minutes meditating before or after Mass; attend Vespers.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline.

The Roman Station is Sts. John and Paul on the Caelian Hill.  We hear again from Fulton Sheen’s On The Demonic.  I will need several of these podcasts for what I want to hand along from this chapter.   It occurs to in this section to think about how scientific advances have allowed us to see new things in the Shroud of Turin and in the Tilma of Guadalupe.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline.

A reminder about the Roman Station. Receiving ashes is different in different places. Fr. Troadec gets us started. We hear the beginning of the beautiful chant Immutemur habitu in cinere et cilicio on the way out.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline.

The Roman Station is San Giorgio in Velabro, near where St. Sebastian died and where St. John Henry Newman was one the Titular Cardinal.  We hear from Fulton Sheen’s On The Demonic.  I will need several of these podcasts for what I want to hand along from this chapter.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline.

It’s “Shrove Tuesday”. What’s “shrove”, anyway?

Today, three categories for consideration.

An audio “gazette” of Catholic things.

00:13 - Init

It’s 20 February 2025 and we are in the week after Septuagesima Sunday. 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 aloud various stories from newspapers from all over to people who pay a dime (2.50 today) a head to listen. The idea caught my imagination and here I am, a gazetteer.

An audio “gazette” of Catholic things.

00:12 - Init

Today a 10 minutes podcast for your Christmas Octave reflections.

Some bleak exuberance about Exsuperantius. Father Parsh and Troadec remark on the point of the condescension of God.

Today a 10 minutes podcast for your Christmas Octave reflections.

Card. Schuster remarks on the office of bishop. Then Pius Parsch, with the help of St. John Chrysostom, remarks on the office of priest. Card. Bacci comments on what the Infant Jesus wants from us, as we look at Him, and He looks back at us.

Fr. Troadec with a lyrical prayer to the Holy Innocents. Jewish convert and scholar Alfred Edersheim situates the slaughter of the children in the context of salvation history. Card. Bacci slap us around heavily with a reflection on all the hours of our lives and then, finally, that critical final hour on which all depends. Pope Benedict XVI connects the Holy Innocents and Rachel weeping for her children.