Fr. Z's PODCAzTs

A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, Fr Alfred Delp speaks from his Nazi prison in 1944. We have a reflection also on the inevitability of death which can be liberating, not oppressive.

A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, Fr. Troadec about Mary as Virgin of virgins. Joseph Ratzinger and St. Maximillian Kolbe pipe up too.

A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent and Christmas 2023. Today, St Ambrose and one of his hymns.

A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2023. Today we have notes about Santa Claus, a vivid description of a crime scene, and a comforting note about our future. We hear a taste of Nicholai Presuli and a baroque surprise at the end.

A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2023. Today, Joseph Ratzinger speaks about the time and creation full of meaning rather than emptiness. St. Alphonsus Liguori prays about being a sinner and begs for help.

A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2023. Today Card. Zen talks about time. We hear about Gabriel talking to Daniel and to Zechariah. There's a taste of a Byzantine Chant for Communion: The Lord Hath Sent Deliverance

It's 3 December 2023 and it is the 1st Sunday of Advent, beginning a new liturgical year. Some time ago, I saw a movie called News of the World in which years after the Civil War a former confederate officer ekes out a living going about and reading to people who pay a dime a head various newspaper stories from all over. The idea caught my imagination and here I am, a gazetteer. An audio "gazette"...

A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2023. Today, Card. Zen reflects and Fr. Z rambles and Bl. Ildefonso amazes and Fulton Sheen... well... shines.

A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2022. Today, St. John Henry Newman connects the two ends of the year.  Fr. Z rambles.  Bookend Collects. The Newman reference is Sermon 3 from Sermons Preached on Various Occasions.  It is in Festivals of Faith: Sermons for the Liturgical Year by St. John Henry Newman Edited by Melinda Nielsen published by the Cenacle Press of Silverstream Abbey. You...

An audio "gazette" of Catholic things. 00:39 Quick Re-intro 01:21 "Les Amis du Monastère" #187 10:24 QST - December 2023 14:94 Angelus - Nov/Dec 2023 17:42 Bp. Robert Barron on the Synod ("Walking Together") 26:43 Concealed Carry Magazine Nov/Dec 2023 31:33 Matthew 24 33:15 Exit

An audio "gazette" of Catholic things. 00:00 Introduction 05:50 Livy on the Sacred Geese 09:33 The Wanderer 13:35 Crux 24:00 Catholic News Agency 31:34 Silverstream Priory 34:34 Latin Liturgy Association 40:00 Exit 41:10 Memorare in Latin You will hear sung a version of the Memorare in Latin by Neums and Tunes

Daily 5 minute podcast to aid your Easter joy. Roman Station: St. Pancras TODAY: Low Sunday or Divine Mercy Sunday? Fr. Troadec holds before our eyes the impatience on the road to Emmaus.

Daily 5 minute podcast to aid your Easter joy. Roman Station: St. Peter's in the Vatican TODAY: Divine Mercy or Dominica "in albis"? Fr. Troadec offers superb advice about living day by day.

Daily 5 minute podcast to aid your Easter joy. Roman Station: St. Peter's in the Vatican TODAY: We hear and account of the terrifying exorcism of the ancient pagan Pantheon in Rome when Boniface IV consecrated it as a church in honor of Mary of the Martyrs. Bl. Ildefonso remarks on the need not to coast.

Daily 5 minute podcast to aid your Easter joy. Roman Station: Santi Dodici Apostoli TODAY: Fr. Troadec drills into two little words

Daily 5 minute podcast to aid your Easter joy. Roman Station: St. Peter's in the Vatican TODAY: St. Augustine explains the situation

Daily 5 minute podcast to aid your Easter joy. Roman Station: St. Paul's outside-the-walls TODAY: Fr. Troadec on the two complementary aspects of holiness. We also hear what my home parish sounded like on Easter Sunday and why I am, in many respects, who and what I am today.

Daily 5 minute podcast to aid your Easter joy. Roman Station: St. Peter's in the Vatican TODAY: The true source of happiness

Daily 5 minute podcast to aid your Easter joy! Roman Station: Santa Maria Maggiore TODAY: Fulton Sheen and a surprise.

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: ... TODAY: Fr. Troadec and Bl. Ildefonso team up

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Croce TODAY: Fulton Sheen on the great cry of Christ.

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: St. John Lateran TODAY: Thoughts on the Eucharist and priesthood

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: St. Mary Major Collect: St. Peter in Chains TODAY: Bl. Ildefonso gives us an astonishing view of the Crucifixion

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Prisca Collect: Santa Maria in Portico TODAY: We hear of the parallel "passion" endured by Peter while Christ was suffering His own.

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Prasede Collect: Santa Balbina TODAY: We hear about the anointing of the Lord's feet with the precious nard.