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A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Triduum discipline. We hear about the Bapistry of St. John Lateran, where the ancient catechumens became new creations. Card. Schuster looks into the tomb while we wait

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Triduum discipline. We hear about Holy Cross in Jerusalem, the Roman Station for the Good Friday, where relics of the Passion are preserved with soil from Calvary. Card. Bacci talks about Christ’s moral suffering, in addition to his physical, and what it means for us in our own lives.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about St. John Lateran, the Roman Station for the Mass of the Last Supper. Card. Schuster gives insights into the Lesson for the Mass and about victims and sacrifices. The wonderful nuns of Gower Abbey, the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, have a  disc and digital download of the Tenebrae Responses, among the most beau...

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about St. Mary Major on the Esquiline Hill, the Roman Station. Fr. Troadec why we read all the accounts of the Passion. Card. Schuster presents the Prayer over the People, used at the end of the hours of the Office in the Triduum.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Santa Prisca on the Aventine Hill, the Roman Station. The identity of St Prisca is uncertain. One tradition claims that she is identical with Priscilla, who is mentioned in the New Testament. Fr. Troadec speaks of Jesus silence during the Passion. Fr. Parsch describes Peter’s Passion after his denial.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Santa Praessede, the Roman Station, and also the former Station, connected to Peter when he fled Rome. Fr. Troadec has a beautiful reflection on the woman with the alabaster jar.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about St. John Lateran, the Roman Station. I rant for a little while.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about St. John at the Latin Gate, the Roman Station. We spend time with Jesus going through His last days before the Passion.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Santo Stefano Rotondo, the Roman Station. We spend time looking at the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, Mother of God and Coredemptrix.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Sant’Apollinare, the Roman Station. Fr. Parsch addresses the theme of the Lesson for the Mass in the Vetus Ordo (Babylon) and the Gospel’s figure (the Penitent Woman).  Connected?

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about San Marcello, the Roman Station. Fr. Parsch addresses the Good Shepherd. Because it is the Feast of the Annunciation we have a musical tribute to Our Lady’s “Fiat” with a lovely polyphonic “Ave Maria” sung by the choir of St. John Cantius in Chicago.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Santa Maria in Via Lata, the Roman Station. A continuation from yesterday with Fr. Parsch who was drilling into Passiontide, ancient and modern views.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about San Crisogono, the Roman Station. Fr. Parsch drill into Passiontide, ancient and modern views.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about St. Peter’s in the Vatican, the Roman Station. The little chapel on the hill where I was ordained a priest. Fr. Troadec takes us into the heart of the Passion.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about San Nicola in Carcere, the Roman Station. A church dear to me, as I ordained here to the diaconate.  Fr Troadec takes us into Passiontide.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Sant’Eusebio, the Roman Station.  Joseph Ratzinger on the 3rd Station of the Way of the Cross of the Lord.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Santi Silvestro e Martino, the Roman Station.  St. Joseph, true king of the Jews.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about St Paul’s outside the walls, the Roman Station.  The man born blind represents the human race. And Benedict XVI on water, light and life.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about San Lorenzo in Damaso, the Roman Station.  Fulton Sheen aligns moments of the Mass with Christ’s Sacrifice on the Cross.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Santi Quatro Coronati, the Roman Station.  Joseph Ratzinger delivers insights about the truth and union with the Church.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, the Roman Station. Fr. Troadec delves into this point in Lent. Card. Bacci says prayer is the key to Heaven. He has sobering words at the end.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Santa Susanna, the Roman Station. Card. Bacci addresses the “spirit of prayer” which can transform our daily life itself into prayer.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Sts. San Lorenzo in Lucina, the Roman Station. Fr. Troadec talks about how to evangelize with our lives.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about Sts. Cosmas and Damian, the Roman Station. Card. Bacci talks about being overly attached to worldly goods, and how to treat them properly.