Fr. Z's PODCAzTs

Here is ADVENTCAzT 06, for Friday in the 1st Week of Advent.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

New word for the day: hexachord

I think my production skills have improved a bit since then!

 

OLDIE TEXT Originally: 24 June 2007

Our PODCAzT for this Solemnity of the Nativity of John the Baptist presents a selection from sermon (s. 288) preached by St. Augustine of Hippo (+430) in Carthage in 401. 

This is not the same selection as you find in the Novus Ordo Office of Readings today (from s. 293).

Then we get into the wonderful hymn for Vespers as well as a very hot

blessing for the day from the pre-Conciliar Rituale Romanum.