One of a series of 5 minute daily podcasts during Advent 2021. Today the founder of a priestly fraternity pours out his heart to the Child Jesus. John Paul II talks about Eucharist Adoration.

One of a series of 5 minute daily podcasts during Advent 2021. Today an extended reading, broken up a little, from Dom Prosper Gueranger about the nature of the martyrdom of the Holy Innocents.

One of a series of 5 minute daily podcasts during Advent 2021. Fr. Troadec is quite brilliant about the gifts of St. John and the stages of the life of the Lord. Bl. Idelfonso Schuster helps us to understand our vocations and accomplishments in the light of those of other people.

One of a series of 5 minute daily podcasts during Advent 2021. We hear about the Six Thrones of Jesus. Dom Gueranger meditates on two things that will last in the Church until the end of time.

One of a series of 5 minute daily podcasts during Advent and Christmas 2021. Today Fulton Sheen talks about the humility of the Lord in taking our human nature. Joseph Ratzinger elucidates the ox and the ass in your Nativity scenes. Musical styles vary.

One of a series of 5 minute daily podcasts during Advent 2021. Today Dom Prosper Gueranger presents thoughts of St. Ephrem the Syrian about how Christmas accompanies us for our whole lives. Fr. Troadec explains a humble image.

One of a series of 5 minute daily podcasts during Advent 2021. Today, continuing with Fulton Sheen's Life of Christ, getting down to brass tacks. Antonio Card. Bacci tells is as it is. Christina Rossetti's lovely poem receives a musical treatment.

One of a series of 5 minute daily podcasts during Advent 2021. Today we continue with Fulton Sheen's illumination of the manger of Bethlehem. Fr. Troadec explains the Introit Antiphon we've heard often this week, the famous, Rorate Caeli.

One of a series of 5 minute daily podcasts during Advent 2021. Today we continue with a reading from Fulton Sheen's 'Life of Christ'. Then Pope Benedict XVI talks about what Sheen just described. Finally, Paul, from Holy Mass today for St. Thomas the Apostle talking about "strangers and sojourners".

One of a series of 5 minute daily podcasts during Advent 2021. Today St. Ambrose of Milan presents some theses and antitheses, which he was pretty good at. Fulton Sheen describes a scene that set something amazing in motion foretold centuries before. An entirely charming little Italian carol, sure to make you smile.