Fr. Z's PODCAzTs

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

Today,  Fr. Troadec points out that we are one week out from Good Friday and talks about the Sorrows of Mary on this her Feast day.

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

Today, on this Feast of St. Benedict, Pope Benedict XVI gives us a reflection.

Today, Thomas a Kempis gives us a meditation on death.  Card. Bacci talks about St. Joseph and death.

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

Today Fr. Troadec has a beautiful reflection on St. Joseph.

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

Today, Fr. Troadec talks about the conversion of Nineveh and Jonah. The penance of Lent draws graces down from God.

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

Today, we review the process of pruning we have undergone since Pre-Lent and how the pruning is now going to be seriously stepped up in the Traditional Roman Rite. Also, we hear about Veronica’s veil, which is exposed for veneration today in St Peter’s Basilica.

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

Today, Card. Richelieu gives excellent advice about either not being taken in by outward piety but lack of action or also preferment for the favored of the powerful.

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

Today, we continue with the connection of yesterday’s and today’s Masses in the Vetus Ordo with a insight of Pius Parsch which we should take with us to every single Mass, to every reading of Scripture. Then outstanding spiritual advice from Card. Richelieu, to whom we return.

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

Today, Pius Parsch helps us with the two resurrection stories in the readings for Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo, explaining that today’s Mass seems to be aimed at penitents while tomorrow’s, an older formula, is aimed at catechumens. Of course, he relates these to us, our lives, our deaths and resurrections.

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

Today, we go back in time to the special rites performed for the ancient catechumens on this day, once the mid-point of Lent. These rites eventually came to be part of a continuous rite of baptism. They included the placing of salt in the mouth, the opening of the ears, and several exorcisms. Today we hear the second of the exorcisms. Last year we heard the first (which I’m sure you remember).