Fr. Z's PODCAzTs

Here is ADVENTCAzT 23, for Monday 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, Pius Parsch talks about the mystery of our failing and of our sins in the light of God's plan for us. Card. Bacci on Christ's swaddling clothes.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 21, for the 4th Sunday of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today, Pius Parsch sums up the 4th Sunday which itself is a summary!  Fr. Troadec warns us about a spiritual trap.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 21, for Ember Saturday in the 3rd Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today, Card. Bacci explains what primary resolution we should make as we gaze at the Christ Child in the manger.  Pius Parsch tries to put the mosaic pieces together.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 20, for Ember Friday in the 3rd Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today, Edward Sri about the amazing parallels in Scripture which reveal Mary as the new Ark of the Covenant.  And we hear the next O Antiphon, O Adonai.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 19, for Thursday in the 3rd Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today, we hear from Fr. Troadec about the O Antiphons and then Pius Parsch explains the logical progression of the themes of  the Antiphons. Oh yes... we also hear the first O Antiphon, O Sapientia.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 18, for Ember Wednesday in the 3rd Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today, Pius Parsch fills us in on the antiquity of Ember Days. St. Leo the Great preaches from the 5th century to us about fasting.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 17, for Tuesday in the 3rd Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today, Card. Bacci talks about how to obey God and "be perfect", even though that's impossible.  Fr. Gabriel in Divine Intimacy talks about our senses.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 16, for Monday in the 3rd Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today, starting on Paul's admonition to the Philippians, Fr. Troadec teaches us about "meekness", called also "gentleness" and "forbearance".  Card. Bacci talks about true success.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 15, for the 3rd Sunday of Advent, "Gaudete!" These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today Pius Parsch presents a dialogue between a discouraged soul and Holy Mother Church.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 14, for Saturday in the 2nd Week of Advent.  It is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. During his first visit abroad as Pope, John Paul II prayed before the tilma of Our Lady of Guadalupe.  We hear his prayer.  And we also hear a brief, intense prayer of Card....

Here is ADVENTCAzT 13, for Friday in the 2nd Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Fr. Troadec talks about the scandal of the Lord and about our own time of trial.  Fulton Sheen gives sinners an encouragement.  A priest's prayer before his own Communion.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 12, for Thursday in the 2nd Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Robert Card. Sarah reflects on the silence of Mary.  Card. Bacci talks about peace of soul. We hear a hymn from the monks of Le Barroux.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 11, for Wednesday in the 2nd Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today, Joseph Ratzinger teaches us about the Marian dogmas.  Card. Bacci gives us a gut check about how we are living. We also hear from the CD of music for Advent by the wonderful Benedictines of Gower Abbey.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 10, for Tuesday in the 2nd Week of Advent, Feast of the Immaculate Conception. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today, Joseph Ratzinger teaches us about the mystery of stillness.  Fr. Troadec pours out praise for our beautiful Blessed Mother, immaculately conceived.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 08, for the 2nd Sunday of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today Card. Bacci quotes de Maistre about the danger of "science" on its own... COVID-1984 anyone?!? Fr. Troadec talks about three kinds of souls who desire perfection.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 08, for the 2nd Sunday of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today we hear Joseph Ratzinger about what keeps driving us forward.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 07, for Saturday in the 1st Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today we hear Card. Bacci what it Jesus meant when he said that we must "hate our life in this world".  Bp. Bossuet gives us a fervent prayer.   Fulton Sheen pipes in with a dose of reality.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 06, for Friday in the 1st Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today we hear about what will take place at the General Judgment.  Fulton Sheen gives an insight into how God comes to us. Pius Parsch talks about our vocations.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 05, for Thursday in the 1st Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today we hear about dissipated souls from Cardinal Bacci.  We also pray for priests.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 04, for Wedesday in the 1st Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today we hear about our twofold renewal at the end of the world.  We have also an alarming image about our Advent preparation from Abbot Gueranger.

These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today we hear about the Prophet Nahum.  We have a beautiful prayer by St. Thomas Aquinas. We also hear from the CD of music for Advent by the wonderful Benedictines of Gower Abbey.

Here is ADVENTCAzT 02, for Monday in the 1st Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today we hear about St. Andrew's place at the beginning of Advent and at the end of the liturgical year.  We have some additional insight from Antonio Card. Bacci. We also hear from the CD of music for Advent by the won...

Here is ADVENTCAzT 01, for the 1st Sunday of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!  Chime in if you listened. Today we hear about the place of Advent in the liturgical year.  We have some additional insight from Fr. Patrick Troadec. The opening chant is the Introit from the 1st Sunday of Advent, Ad te levavi. We also hear music for Adv...

In 400, or thereabouts, in St. Augustine's see of Hippo, a 'miles', a soldier, probably a kind of police officer, did something very bad.  He probably killed someone.  The town went nuts and rioted and they lynched him.  The mob is still howling for more vengeance.   It is, apparently, ongoing. One of the things that Augustine reaffirms is that mobs do not have authority and that every is going to...

Bp. Schneider has called for a Crusade of Eucharistic Reparation. He released a text on his site, Gloria Dei, about sins against the Blessed Sacrament, offences against our Lord in the Eucharist, and the need of such a coordinated campaign. Let’s hear what Bp. Schneider has to say in his text. I read the whole text from Bp. Schneider's site, make some comments after with some recommendations for A...