Fr. Z's PODCAzTs

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Cecilia in Trastevere - Collect: San Giorgio TODAY: We go across the river to this storied Station and then hear more from Thomas a Kempis about our unavoidable death and the possible dire consequences of not taking this fact seriously.

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Balbina. No Collect. Today: Insights into Christians who have contrary dispositions. Are you one of them? Remarks about the Angelic Doctor on his traditional Feast.

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: San Clemente Collect: Santi Cosma e Damiano TODAY: Benedict XVI talks about transfiguration(s)

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Maria in Domnica TODAY: Bl. Ildefonso has a brief, beautiful insight into the importance of adhering to our traditions. We learn that once there was no Roman Station church today because - get this - there was no SUNDAY MASS in Rome on this day. Why?

Roman Station: St. Peters Collect: Santa Maria in Traspontina TODAY: We hear about the Saturday Ember Day and St. Peter's Basilica and then Fr. Troadec helps us out about the Transfiguration.

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santi Dodici Apostoli - Collect: San Marco TODAY: We hear of the amazing church which is the Station.  Thomas a Kempis sobers us up.

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: San Lorenzo in Panisperna.  The Collect church is Sant'Agata dei Goti. Today we hear a bit about the amazing number of church in Rome dedicated to St. Lawrence.  Also, we have a gloss on why it seems that God can be harsh with us sometimes.  Christ was harsh with the Canaanite woman.  What's up with that?

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Collect Church is San Pietro in Vincoli and the Roman Station is Santa Maria Maggiore. It is Ember Wednesday in Lent, so we hear briefly about Ember Days. Then we continue with some sobering thoughts from Thomas a Kempis about death. "Death bed conversions" or "repentance". Possible? Maybe... but are you going to risk your soul on it? T...

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Sant'Anastasia (Collect: San Nicola in Carcere) Fr. Troadec explores blindness and prayer.

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: St. Peter in Chains (Collect Sts. Cosmas and Damian) We begin some reflections on the one thing that is certain but that we cannot predict.

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: St. John Lateran. No Collect church today. Today we hear from Fr. Troadec about the importance of 40. Bl. Ildefonso cites St. Gregory the Great on what it means for us that Christ was tempted by Satan in the desert.

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Sabina.  The Collect: S. Lorenzo in Lucina. Today we hear the Prayer Over the People after visiting the Roman Station.  Then Fr. Troadec gives us a stout dose of medicine about how harmful sins of the tongue can be.

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Sts. John and Paul on the Coelian Hill (Collect: S. Lucia in Septizonio) We hear from the Gospel of Matthew and I pull apart the Collect that commemorates the ferial Friday.

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: San Giorgio in Velabro (Collect: San Nicola in Carcere) Today we hear about the military character of the Gospel, connected to the Station. Also we introduce the "Prayer over the people", characteristic of Masses in Lent. Finally, there is a connection between the Oratio, preparation for death and the prayer the priest sh...

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, some notes about the beautiful responsory from the Blessing of Ashes, Emendemus in melius. We hear the second prayer of the blessing of ashes and attend to today Roman Station, which is Santa Sabina on the Aventine Hill.

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we hear what "Shrove" means as in Shrove Tuesday, another name for "Fat Tuesday" or "Mardi Gras". What is Lent called and why? We have a few reminders about Roman Stations and purpose of Lent.

Today we reach back to the year of Our Lord 2019 and my podcast for the Feast of the Holy Innocents.

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Today we reach back to the year of Our Lord 2013 and my podcast for the Feast of St. Stephen. We hear from Joseph Ratzinger, about those who can see and those who can't. St. Fulgentius of Ruspe fills us in on Stephen. I think I had a cold.

A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and now, at last Christmas 2022. Today, Card. Bacci on the best gifts to give Jesus on His Birthday. Bl. Ildefonso ties together a threefold parousia in the Feast of Christmas. Fr. Parsch on the three different births we celebrate at Christmas.

A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2022. Today, Fr. Troadec talks about the night in Bethlehem.  We hear form Ven. Pauline Jaricot.  Card. Bacci invokes St. Joseph.

A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2022. Today, we hear about "Ero Cras!". Sr. Noble helps the wind into our sails.

A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2022. Today, We hear of how the Mary, filled from within by the overflowing divine presence experienced joy as no other ever could. Card. Bacci and John of the Cross help us towards joy in this vale of tears.

A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2022. Today, we hear about Light and Darkness. Then Canon Croegaert introduces The Sign of the Cross with which we begin Holy Mass.

A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2022. Today, we hear the Scriptural connection between the image of David's Key in today's O Antiphon and the Petrine Ministry that endures in the Church. St. Noble talks about the beauty of St. Joseph's obedience and what it means as a model for us who face death.