Fr. Z's PODCAzTs

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.  The Roman Station today is San Lawrence outside the Walls. Today is 3rd Sunday of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! We hear about the Patriarchal (Papal) Basilicas of Rome and the ancients sees with which they are associated.   Card. Bacci giv...

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.  The Roman Station today is Santi Marcellino e Pietro. Today is Saturday in the 2nd Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! It's hard to be brothers.  Fr Troadec opines. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and t...

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.  The Roman Station today is San Vitale. Today is Friday in the 2nd Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! St. Augustine on how to get the Savior to answer prayers. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help me and this b...

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.  The Roman Station today is Santa Maria in Trastevere. Today is Thursday in the 2nd Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Card. Bacci on true riches. Fulton Sheen: this is the most talkative age of the world. I provide these especially in g...

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.  The Roman Station today is Santa Cecilia. Today is Wednesday in the 2nd Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Card. Bacci on our state of life and how we choose to accept it or fight it. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefacto...

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.  The Roman Station today is Santa Balbina. Today is Monday in the 2nd Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Fr. Troadec on the disciples of Jesus and the Pharisees. Fulton Sheen on harvesting our favors. I provide these especially in gratit...

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.  The Roman Station today is the fascinating San Clemente. Today is Monday in the 2nd Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Cad. Bacci talks about living normal life in the normal course of events. I provide these especially in gratitude to...

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.  The Roman Station today is Santa Maria in Domnica. Today is the 2nd Sunday of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Square halos.  Fr. Troadec speaks of how to be "perfect" as our Father in heaven is perfect. I provide these especially in gratitud...

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.  The Roman Station today is St. Peter's Basilica. Today is Ember Saturday in the 1st Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Ratzinger explains the order of the Ember Days.   Card. Bacci drills into fasting and abstaining.   I provide these e...

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.  The Roman Station today is Santi Dodici Apostoli. Today is Ember Friday in the 1st Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! In the description of the station church we hear about the number 38 and about the tomb of Pope Clement XIV.    Fr. Tr...

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.  The Roman Station today is San Lorenzo in Panisperna. Today is Thursday in the 1st Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Card. Bacci hits us in the face with the snap of a cold, wet towel.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.  The Roman Station today is Santa Maria Maggiore.   It's also the Feast of St. Matthew. Today is Ember Wednesday in the 1st Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! A new view of a Psalm.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.  The Roman Station today is Sant'Anastasia al Palatino.  The saint in named in the Roman Canon. Today is Tuesday in the 1st Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Fr. Troadec talks about the need for simplicity of faith, without pride. We he...

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.  The Roman Station today is San Pietro in Vincoli. Today is Monday in the 1st Week of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION!  It's the Feast of the Cathedra of St. Peter. Card. Bacci gives good advice about when bad things happen to us.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.  The Roman Station today is St. John Lateran. Today is 1st Sunday of Lent. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Fr. Troadec talks about great figures who guide us during Lent and what Lent is for.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.  The Roman Station today is San Trifone (Sant'Agostino) in Campo Marzio. Today is Saturday after Ash Wednesday. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Pope Benedict XVI speaks about truth and our path in life and conversion in Lent.

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.  The Roman Station today is Ss. Giovanni e Paolo. Today is Friday after Ash Wednesday. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! The Sacrament of Penance is presented by Fulton Sheen.  Card. Bacci talks about St. Charles Borromeo. I provide these especially ...

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.  The Roman Station today is San Giorgio in Velabro. Today is Thursday after Ash Wednesday. Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! Card. Bacci and St. John Henry Newman talk about self denial. I provide these especially in gratitude to benefactors who help...

For Lent I offer daily 5 minute podcasts.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.  The Roman Station today is Santa Sabina. Today is Ash Wednesday, it is a day of fast and abstinence.   Plan to GO TO CONFESSION! We hear about Roman Stations today.   The beautiful nuns of Gower Abbey sing to us US HERE – UK HERE.  Fr. Troad...

We begin again a series of daily 5 minute podcasts for Lent.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. Today is Shrove Tuesday, a day upon which many would seek to be "shriven" before the beginning of Lent.   In other words GO TO CONFESSION! Today is also called "Fat Tuesday".  When the discipline of Lent was more serious in...

Here is ADVENTCAzT 27, for Christmas. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today, Fr. Troadec on the night of Christmas.  Fulton Sheen speaks to the ongoing work of Christ.

St Pope Leo the Great was Pope in a tough time. Think Vandals, Goths and Attila the Huns. He had been deacon to Pope Sixtus III and was in charge of the mosaic decorations of the beautiful arch in St Mary Major, which presents an anti-Manichean theology reflected in his later sermons as Pope. He point the exclamation point on correct Christology of the Council Chalcedon. St. Leo's Latin was terrif...

Here is ADVENTCAzT 26, for the Vigil of Christmas. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today, Fr. Troadec conditions for receiving grace.  Fulton Sheen gives excellent vocational advice.  Pius Parsch starts with a little liturgical pointer.

ADVENTCAzT 2020 25: “Pollution of the temple" These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today, Fr. Troadec explains dryness of the soul.  Peter Kwasniewski talks about how many have tried to eliminate kneeling, with the inevitable result.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 24, for Tuesday in the 4th Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today, Fr. Troadec has an insight about a form of stinginess, avarice, peculiar to our times.