Fr. Z's PODCAzTs

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

St. Jerome used to say Mass at the Roman Station today. We hear something Christ told St. Catherine of Siena in the Dialogues. Then, a blunt prayer to illuminate the wicked in the Church, to expose the horrors they are working. Fr. Troadec describes praying in faith filled simplicity. Lastly, on his feast day, we hear the Collect for St. Matthias.

Whew.

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

Today we visit St. John Lateran, the Roman Station and also talk about the Feast of the Cathedra of St. Peter, which is today, 22 February. The Bl. Ildefonso Schuster takes over with a fascinating digression about the angels who ministered to the Lord in his human body and also in his mystical body.

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

We hear today about chains, bonds, uniting and separating. Pius Parsch chimes in on what the Church wants us to learn today.

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

Today our Roman Station is at the Church of St. Augustine. We hear from Fr. Troadec about a sin of the tongue, gossip that harms the reputations of others.

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

Today we get into the Prayer over the people, Oratio super populum - at the end of Mass in the Vetus Ordo.

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

We hear from St. John Henry Newman about Lent and then there is a stirring reflection from Fr. Troadec: “If we were to die this night, would we be ready?”  

I recently rediscovered a slim volume entitled The Osterley Selection from the Latin Fathers, published in 1950. The preface praises the great classical authors yet insists that Christian also worthy. The collection includes brief selections from Fathers of the Church. I am going through the book with podcasts of English translation, comments and the Latin original.

Today we hear an excerpt from St. Jerome’s Letter 14 to his friend Heliodorus. Jerome tries to persuade him - in beautiful Latin - to take up the ascetic life again.

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

Remarks about the Roman Stations, the manner of imposition of ashes, and thoughts of Fr. Troadec, which I don’t believe I’ve read on an Ash Wednesday. He’s terrific. And brief. Terrific partly because he’s brief!

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

Getting ready for the Church’s annual retreat when we will be confronted with reality.

I recently rediscovered a slim volume entitled The Osterley Selection from the Latin Fathers, published in 1950. The preface praises the great classical authors—Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Virgil—yet insists that Christian also worthy. The collection includes brief selections from Fathers of the Church. It occurred to me that I might offer a podcast of the readings with an English translation, comments and the Latin original.

Today we hear from a 4th century nun name Egeria, or sometime Etheria and her pilgrimage, Itinerario or Peregrinatio, an extended journey through Egypt, Sinai, Palestine, Syria, and Mesopotamia.  

In this excerpt she describes Holy Thursday night liturgy in Jerusalem.