The Selsey Podcast

The Chalice Before the Throne: Saint James desired a place beside Christ in His kingdom, but Our Lord taught him that the throne could be reached only through the chalice. The impetuous son of thunder was purified by grace into an apostolic father who drank Christ’s chalice in martyrdom. With Saint Christopher, who bore Christ beneath the weight of an unexpected burden, he teaches us to recognise...

Nuntiatoria CXVI considers what happens when institutions retain their offices, laws and outward forms after losing sight of what they are for. The Church exists for the worship of God and the salvation of souls; bishops are appointed to guard the Faith; priests to teach, sanctify and govern; monasteries to offer the solemn praise of God; civil law to protect justice, life and the natural family....

Before Saint Wilfrid brought the Gospel publicly to the South Saxons, Saint Lewinna had already confessed Christ in hidden fidelity and sealed that confession with her blood. Her feast teaches that the conversion of peoples begins with solitary souls who possess Christ as the pearl of great price and remain faithful even when no harvest can yet be seen. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/07/24/todays-ho...

Saint Jerome Emiliani passed from the chains of captivity to the liberty of grace, and from worldly self-possession to spiritual fatherhood. Through the Mass propers, the homily shows how Christ breaks the chains of sin, receives the abandoned, and calls His adopted children to defend innocence, serve the afflicted, and bring the fatherless into the household of God. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/0...

Saint Vincent de Paul understood that authentic Christian charity must serve the whole person. From Folleville and Châtillon to his missions, works for the poor, and reform of the clergy, he united corporal mercy with the salvation of souls. The homily contrasts supernatural charity with secular humanitarianism and shows that every work of mercy finds its source and fulfilment in Christ present in...

Saint Alexius renounced wealth, status, family recognition, and even his own name in order to belong entirely to God. Living first as a beggar in Edessa and then, according to tradition, beneath the staircase of his father’s house in Rome, he became an image of the hidden Christ. His feast challenges Christians to seek holiness without applause, to examine the attachments concealed within the hear...

Mount Carmel is the mountain upon which Elias compelled Israel to choose between the living God and Baal, and where the little cloud prefigured the Blessed Virgin bearing Christ, the rain of grace, to a spiritually barren world. The brown scapular is therefore not a talisman but a garment of allegiance: a call to live beneath Mary’s mantle by hearing the word of God, keeping it, rejecting the idol...

Saint Swithun is remembered today chiefly for an old weather proverb, yet the Church remembers him as a faithful bishop through whom the grace of Christ flowed to His people. This homily recovers the forgotten meaning behind the rain traditionally associated with his translation: not a sign of displeasure, but a symbol of Heaven's blessing, echoing the Advent cry, Rorate cæli desuper. Drawing upon...

Saint Bonaventure, the Seraphic Doctor, teaches that creation, the human soul, and sacred doctrine must all lead us beyond themselves to Jesus Christ crucified. In an age overwhelmed by distraction and information, his witness calls the Church back to recollection, contemplation, and the recovery of her supernatural centre: Christ, whose wounds are the doorway into the life of God. https://nuntiat...

Continue the conversation in this weekly live question-and-answer session following Monday's Spiritual Conference and Wednesday's Old Romans Unscripted episode. Each Thursday, HE ✠Jerome Lloyd responds directly to questions submitted by viewers, offering theological, historical and canonical insights grounded in Sacred Scripture, the Fathers, the perennial Magisterium and the traditional disciplin...

Saint Anacletus reveals the papacy before worldly power: a sacred office of custody, continuity, sacrifice, and fidelity. The Pope is not the author of doctrine or master of Tradition, but the servant charged with receiving, guarding, and handing on the apostolic Faith intact. His martyrdom and enduring place in the Roman Canon remind every pastor that true authority is measured not by influence o...

Écône and the Catholic Conscience: How Should the Faithful Respond? Join HE ✠Jerome Lloyd for a live online spiritual conference examining the Écône consecrations through the perennial teaching of the Church. Moving beyond slogans and factionalism, the conference will consider papal authority, obedience, necessity, schism, conscience and the duties of the faithful in a time of ecclesiastical confu...

Saint John Gualbert’s life reveals the harmony of mercy and truth. He forgave his brother’s murderer for the sake of Christ, yet later resisted corruption within the Church with fearless firmness. His example teaches us to love our enemies without excusing error, to expose false prophets without hatred, and to defend Tradition without allowing zeal to become bitterness. True reform begins when the...

Saint Oliver Plunkett counted the full cost of discipleship: exile, poverty, calumny, judicial injustice, and martyrdom. Yet he remained faithful to his flock, defended the Catholic Faith without compromise, and forgave his persecutors at Tyburn. His witness, together with Pope Saint Pius I and Blessed Adrian Fortescue, calls Catholics today to resist fear, heresy, and unlawful demands while carry...

On the feast of the Seven Holy Brothers and Saints Rufina and Secunda, the Church presents the Christian family as a school of martyrdom: Felicitas teaches parents to form children for heaven, her sons reveal true brotherhood in fidelity unto death, and Rufina and Secunda show that no earthly love or security may be purchased at the price of apostasy. Their witness calls Christians today to resist...

This homily presents Saints John Fisher and Thomas More as witnesses against every attempt by political power, public fashion, or ecclesiastical weakness to command the conscience against God. Applying their martyrdom to post-Christian Britain, it contrasts ceremonial Christianity with true fidelity, calling Catholics to honour lawful authority while remaining “God’s first” by the profession of th...

The Translation of St Thomas Becket’s relics in 1220 proclaimed the triumph of divine judgment over earthly power. Through the Mass propers, the homily presents Thomas as the true shepherd whose episcopal fidelity transformed courtier into confessor and priest into victim, calling the Church—especially her bishops—to defend the Faith, preserve the altar, and fear God more than men. https://nuntiat...

The readings proclaim Christ as both Priest and Victim, entering the heavenly sanctuary through His own Blood to obtain eternal redemption. From His pierced side flow Blood and water, signs of the Eucharist and Baptism. The commemorated Sunday Gospel completes the image: the Redeemer who purchases His people by His Blood also feeds them in the wilderness, prefiguring the Eucharistic Bread of Life....

Saints Peter and Paul reveal the complementary form of the apostolic Church: Peter safeguards unity and authority; Paul carries the unchanging Faith to the nations. Their missions differ, but their doctrine is one. In every age, the Church remains faithful only when authority serves Tradition, mission proceeds from truth, and the apostolic deposit is handed on intact. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/...

Excerpt from Écône Episcopal Consecrations LIVE Q&A with HE ✠Jerome Lloyd of the Old Roman Apostolate

Saint Leo II teaches that authority in the Church is stewardship of the Faith, not mastery over it. His defence of Roman primacy, condemnation of doctrinal negligence, and care for sacred worship illuminate the present SSPX crisis: there is no Faith without Tradition, no Church without the Faith, and no legitimate authority apart from fidelity to what Christ entrusted to the Apostles. https://nunt...

St Paul’s apostolate fulfilled the Gospel appointed for his feast: sent among wolves, delivered before councils, governors and kings, yet sustained by the Holy Ghost to persevere unto martyrdom. Every prison became a sanctuary, every tribunal a pulpit, and every suffering a means of carrying Christ to the nations. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/06/30/todays-homily-commemoration-of-st-paul/

On the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, the Church contemplates two men transformed by grace and united in one faith, one apostolic mission, and one Roman martyrdom. Peter, strengthened after weakness, and Paul, converted from error, teach us that Christ’s truth endures, His Church cannot be overcome, and fidelity reaches its fulfilment in sacrifice. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/06/29/todays-homily...

Saint Irenaeus stands within living reach of the Apostles: a disciple of Saint Polycarp, successor of the martyred Saint Pothinus, defender of Apostolic Tradition, and witness to the Holy Eucharist. His life shows that true peace is never purchased by compromising truth, but established by receiving, confessing, and living the Faith handed down from Christ through His Church. https://nuntiatoria.o...

The icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour reveals the mystery of Calvary: the Divine Child beholds the instruments of His Passion, while Mary looks with compassion upon those for whom He will suffer. Saint John the Baptist points us to the Lamb of God; Christ crucified gives us His Mother, whose perpetual help leads sinners through repentance, sacrifice, and the Holy Eucharist to eternal salvation...