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. A meditation for the Feast of the Seven Holy Founders of the Order of Servites, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”. The Seven Holy Founders of the Order of Servites...

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 Our Lady of Lourdes, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”. The feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, kept on February 11, commemorates the appari...

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 Thursday of Sexagesima Week, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”. Thursday of Sexagesima Week reflects soberly on God’s justice in history, especiall...

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 Septuagesima: Morning and Night Prayers for Septuagesima, from Volume IV of "The Liturgical Year" by Dom Prosper Gué...

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 Wednesday of Sexagesima Week, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”. On Wednesday of Sexagesima Week, Dom Guéranger places before us the sobering reali...

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 St. Scholastica, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”. Saint Scholastica was a consecrated virgin of the sixth century and the twin siste...

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 Tuesday of Sexagesima Week, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”. Tuesday of Sexagesima Week turns our gaze to the corruption of mankind before the Fl...

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 St. Cyril of Alexandria, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”. Saint Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376–444) was Patriarch of Alexandria and one...

Chapter 3 of the Introduction to the Season of Septuagesima: Practice During Septuagesima, from Volume IV of "The Liturgical Year" by Dom Prosper Guéranger. Chapter 3 of the Introduction to the Season of Septuagesima teaches that Septuagesima is a sober season of preparation in which the Church gradually turns the soul from the joy of Christ’s Nativity toward the penitential path that le...

A meditation for the Feast of St. Apollonia, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”. Saint Apollonia was a virgin martyr of Alexandria who suffered during a violent persecution of Christians in the mid-third century. After being seized by a hostile mob, she endured brutal torture, including the breaking and tearing out of her teeth, in an attempt to force her to renounce Christ. Rather than su...

A meditation for Monday of Sexagesima Week, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”. Monday of Sexagesima Week sets before us the grave lesson of mankind’s corruption before the Flood, showing how even the memory of Paradise lost, the promise of a Redeemer, and the long patience of God failed to restrain human pride and concupiscence. Despite abundant grace and the merits of Christ already pres...

A meditation for the Feast of St. John of Matha, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”. Saint John of Matha (1160–1213) was a French priest and founder of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity, established for the ransom of Christian captives. Moved by a vision of Christ holding two captives—one Christian and one Muslim—John devoted his life to freeing those enslaved during the conflicts between...

A meditation for Sexagesima Sunday, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”. Sexagesima Sunday deepens the Church’s call to conversion by recalling both the deluge in the days of Noah and the parable of the Sower. As humanity once fell into such corruption that only Noah found grace before God, so too the world is ever threatened by the flood of sin; yet God preserves and renews His covenant th...

A meditation for the Feast of St. Romuald, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”. Saint Romuald (c. 951–1027) was an Italian monk, hermit, and reformer who founded the Camaldolese branch of the Benedictine Order, uniting the solitary life of the hermit with the stability of cenobitic monasticism. Born into a noble family in Ravenna, he was moved to conversion after witnessing a duel involving...

A meditation for Saturday of Septuagesima week, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”. Saturday of Septuagesima Week brings the season’s penitential meditation to its deepest point by confronting the most humiliating consequence of the Fall: the transmission of original sin to the whole human race. Though redeemed and restored to grace through Christ, humanity still bears the scars of this in...

A meditation for the Feast of St. Dorothy, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”. Saint Dorothy of Caesarea is venerated as a virgin martyr of the early fourth century who suffered during the persecution under Diocletian. According to tradition, she was condemned to death for refusing to renounce Christ, and as she was being led to execution, she promised a skeptical lawyer named Theophilus t...

A meditation for Friday of Septuagesima week, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”. Friday of Septuagesima Week meditates on the sentence pronounced against Adam after the Fall and the lasting consequences of sin for all humanity. Adam is condemned to a life of labor, exile, and sorrow, earning his bread by the sweat of his brow in a world that now resists him with thorns and barrenness, a f...

A meditation for the Feast of St. Agatha, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”. Saint Agatha was a third-century virgin martyr from Catania in Sicily who suffered during the persecution of Christians under the Roman emperor Decius around AD 251. Renowned for her beauty and noble birth, she consecrated her virginity to Christ, refusing the advances of the Roman governor Quintianus; in retalia...

Chapter 2 of the Introduction to the Season of Septuagesima: the Mystery of Septuagesima, from Volume IV of "The Liturgical Year" by Dom Prosper Guéranger. In Chapter II, The Mystery of Septuagesima, Dom Guéranger explains that the season symbolizes the present condition of fallen humanity as a time of exile, trial, and penitential preparation before the joy of Easter, drawing deeply on...

A meditation for Thursday of Septuagesima week, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”. The meditation for Thursday of Septuagesima week reflects on the consequences of the Fall by considering the divine sentence pronounced upon Eve and, through her, all humanity, emphasizing that while forgiveness is promised, sin still requires just reparation. The reading explains that woman, originally cre...

A meditation for the Feast of St. Andrew Corsini, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”. Saint Andrew Corsini (1302–1374) was a Florentine nobleman who, after a restless and worldly youth, underwent a profound conversion and entered the Carmelite Order, embracing a life of penance, prayer, and study. Ordained a priest and later appointed Bishop of Fiesole, he reluctantly accepted the office o...

Preface and Chapter 1 of the Introduction to the Season of Septuagesima: the History of Septuagesima, from Volume IV of "The Liturgical Year" by Dom Prosper Guéranger. In the first chapter of the his introduction to the season of Septuagesima, Dom Guéranger explains that this season comprises the three weeks before Lent—Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima—and serves as a gradual,...

A meditation for Wednesday of Septuagesima week, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”. Wednesday of Septuagesima Week continues the Church’s meditation on the Fall, focusing on the judgment pronounced after Adam and Eve’s sin and the profound mercy that accompanies divine justice. Unlike fallen humanity, our first parents sinned without concupiscence or ignorance, through sheer ingratitude a...

A meditation for the Feast of Saint Blaise, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”. Saint Blaise was a bishop and martyr of the early fourth century, venerated as a courageous shepherd of souls during the persecutions of the Roman Empire. According to ancient tradition, he suffered imprisonment and death for the Faith, and on his way to martyrdom miraculously healed a child who was choking on...

A meditation for Tuesday of Septuagesima week, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”. Tuesday of Septuagesima Week contemplates the consummation of the Fall and its immediate consequences. Eve, having already sinned interiorly through pride, distrust, and self-love, completes her rebellion by eating the forbidden fruit and, emboldened by her apparent impunity, persuades Adam to share in her t...