InPrincipio Podcast

Please Note: In light of increasingly frequent inquiries, I want to assure all listeners that the voice in these recordings is *NOT AI generated*; it is my (InPrincipio Podcast’s) own human voice, unworthy as it is. Thank you. Music: “The First Noel” (Latin)Performed by Corpus Christi WatershedUsed with permissionVisit ccwatershed.org for more beautiful chants, hymnals, scores, and liturgical reso...

Please Note: In light of increasingly frequent inquiries, I want to assure all listeners that the voice in these recordings is *NOT AI generated*; it is my (InPrincipio Podcast’s) own human voice, unworthy as it is. Thank you. Chapter 4, of the Introduction to the Season of Christmas: Morning and Night Prayers for Christmas, from Volume II of "The Liturgical Year" by Dom Prosper Guérange...

Please Note: In light of increasingly frequent inquiries, I want to assure all listeners that the voice in these recordings is *NOT AI generated*; it is my (InPrincipio Podcast’s) own human voice, unworthy as it is. Thank you. A meditation for the Feast of the Holy Innocents, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”.Music: “The First Noel” (Latin)Performed by Corpus Christi WatershedUsed with pe...

Music: “The First Noel” (Latin)Performed by Corpus Christi WatershedUsed with permissionVisit ccwatershed.org for more beautiful chants, hymnals, scores, and liturgical resources. Please pray for their good work! A meditation for the Feast of Saint John, the 'Beloved Disciple', from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”.Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist, the 'Beloved Disciple',...

Music: “The First Noel” (Latin).  Performed by Corpus Christi Watershed.  Used with permission.  Visit ccwatershed.org for more beautiful chants,hymnals, scores, and liturgical resources. Please pray for their good work! A meditation for the Feast of Saint Stephen the First Martyr, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”.Saint Stephen, honored as the first martyr of the Church, was one of the s...

Chapter 3, of the Introduction to the Season of Christmas: Practice During Christmas, from Volume II of "The Liturgical Year" by Dom Prosper Guéranger. In Chapter 3 of the Introduction to the Season of Christmas, Dom Guéranger explains that Christmastide is the time for the faithful soul to reap the fruit of Advent by welcoming the Incarnate Word not only in history but mystically within...

Chapter 2, of the Introduction to the Season of Christmas: The Mystery of Christmas, from Volume II of "The Liturgical Year" by Dom Prosper Guéranger. Chapter 2, The Mystery of Christmas, presents Christmas as the profound mystery of the Incarnation, in which the eternal Word of God enters time, uniting divine and human nature in the Person of Christ. The chapter explains how the Church...

Chapter 1, of the Introduction to the Season of Christmas: The History of Christmas, from Volume II of "The Liturgical Year" by Dom Prosper Guéranger. Christmas, in the Church’s liturgical life, is not a single day but a joyful season of forty days stretching from the Nativity on December 25 to the Purification of the Blessed Virgin on February 2, during which one continuous mystery is c...

Music: “The First Noel” (Latin).  Performed by Corpus Christi Watershed.  Used with permission.  Visit ccwatershed.org for more beautiful chants,hymnals, scores, and liturgical resources. Please pray for their good work! A meditation for the liturgy of the Third Mass of the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”.In the Third Mass of Christmas, th...

Music: “The First Noel” (Latin).  Performed by Corpus Christi Watershed.  Used with permission.  Visit ccwatershed.org for more beautiful chants,hymnals, scores, and liturgical resources. Please pray for their good work! A meditation for the liturgy of the ‘Aurora Mass’, the second Mass of the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”.In the meditat...

Music: “The First Noel” (Latin).  Performed by Corpus Christi Watershed.  Used with permission.  Visit ccwatershed.org for more beautiful chants,hymnals, scores, and liturgical resources. Please pray for their good work! A meditation for the liturgy of Midnight Mass, the first Mass of the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”.The meditation for...

A meditation for the liturgy of the afternoon of Christmas Eve, including First Vespers and Matins, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”.The liturgy of the afternoon of Christmas Eve draws the Church into a joyful threshold between Advent’s longing and the imminent birth of Emmanuel. As Advent offices conclude and the fast is eased, the faithful are invited to interior gladness and reverent...

A meditation for Christmas Eve, Vigil of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”.The meditation for Christmas Eve draws the faithful into the solemn stillness of the final hours before the Nativity, when the long expectation of centuries is at last about to be fulfilled. Dom Guéranger presents this day as the sacred transition from Advent’s penitential lon...

A meditation for Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Advent, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”.Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Advent presents Christ as the divine Restorer who comes to transform barrenness into life and desolation into joy. Drawing on the prophecy of Isaias, Dom Guéranger contemplates the nearness of the Savior whose coming renews Zion, restores what sin has laid waste, and...

A meditation for the Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Advent, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”.Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Advent presents Christ as the gentle Servant foretold by Isaias, whose coming is marked not by force or clamor but by meekness, mercy, and quiet power. Dom Guéranger dwells on the sweetness of the Savior’s entrance into the world, as the eternal Son approaches humanit...

A meditation for the Seventh Great Antiphon of Advent, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”.The meditation for the Seventh Great Antiphon, O Emmanuel, contemplates the final fulfillment of all prophecy as Christ, hidden yet truly present, enters Jerusalem on His way to Bethlehem. Dom Guéranger dwells on the profound mystery that the Lord visits His temple unnoticed, carried within Mary, who...

A meditation for Monday of the Fourth Week of Advent, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”.Monday of the Fourth Week of Advent proclaims the nearness of the Lord and offers strong consolation to a people conscious of their weakness yet sustained by divine promise. Drawing from the prophecy of Isaias, the liturgy presents Israel, chosen and upheld by God, as an image of fallen humanity reassu...

A meditation for the Sixth Great Antiphon of Advent, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”.The meditation for the Sixth Great Antiphon, O Rex gentium, contemplates Christ as the long-desired King drawing very near to Bethlehem, bearing within Himself the salvation and unity of mankind. Dom Guéranger lingers on the intimate mystery of the journey, as the Blessed Virgin advances toward the hour...

A meditation for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”.The Fourth Sunday of Advent places the Church in the final, urgent watch before the Nativity, when she seems to count the very hours until the Messiah’s birth and intensifies her longing through the Great O Antiphons. Leading her children once more into the desert, she sets before them St. John the Baptist, wh...

A meditation for the feast of Saint Thoms, Apostle, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”.Saint Thomas the Apostle, also called Didymus, is best known in the Gospels for his initial doubt at the news of Christ’s Resurrection, a hesitation that gave way to one of the clearest professions of faith when he beheld the risen Lord and exclaimed, “My Lord and my God.” Chosen by Christ as one of the...

A meditation for the Fifth Great Antiphon of Advent, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”.The meditation for the Fifth Great Antiphon, O Oriens, contemplates Christ as the divine Sun rising to deliver mankind from the darkness of sin and death, yet still hidden as He approaches His Nativity. Dom Guéranger dwells on the humility of the Incarnation: the Sun of Justice passes unnoticed through...

A meditation for Ember Saturday in the season of Advent, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”.Traditionally linked to the ancient practice of night-long ordinations at St. Peter’s, the liturgy of Ember Saturday in Advent unites prayer for holy ministers with preparation for Christ’s birth, recalling that the Gospel proclaimed on this day once belonged to the very Mass that carried the Church...

A meditation for the Fourth Great Antiphon of Advent, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”.The Fourth Great Antiphon, O Clavis David, hails Christ as the true Son of David who holds the sovereign key that alone can open and shut the gates of salvation, fulfilling the ancient promise of royal authority given to the house of Israel. As Dom Guéranger meditates, this antiphon contemplates the my...

A meditation for Ember Friday in the season of Advent, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”.The liturgy for Ember Friday of Advent turns our gaze to the mystery of the Visitation, contemplating the humble charity of the Blessed Virgin as she bears Christ to others even before His birth, while St. Ambrose’s reflections deepen this Marian focus. Stationed at the church of the Holy Apostles, th...

A meditation for the Third Great Antiphon of the season of Advent, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”.The liturgy of the Third Great Antiphon of Advent, "O Radix Jesse", contemplates Christ as the promised shoot from the root of David, who comes as a universal standard raised before all peoples, silencing earthly power and drawing the nations to prayer and hope. The Church mystic...