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Once named: What Does The Prayer Really Say? – Commentary on Catholic issues and slavishly accurate liturgical translations – by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf o{]:¬)
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OLDIE PODCAzT 127: The Eve of St. Agnes and a Bleak Midwinter
A friend reminded me that today is the Eve of St. Agnes, along with being the “birthday” of the Roman martyrs Marcellus, Prisca, Fabian, and Sebastian...
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PODCAzT 187 – Voices of the Fathers 02 – The Martyrdom of St. Cyprian
I was recently going through some old books and found a slim volume entitled The Osterley Selection from the Latin Fathers, edited by Joseph Crehan of...
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PODCAzT 186 – Voices of the Fathers 01 – The Scillitan Martyrs
I was recently going through some old books and found a slim volume entitled The Osterley Selection from the Latin Fathers, edited by Joseph Crehan of...
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CHRISTMASCAzT 2025 – 33 – Octave of Christmas – Memories
The last of a series of 5 minute daily podcasts for the Octave of Christmas. Card. Bacci took us out of last year. He brings us in now with sound adv...
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CHRISTMASCAzT 2025 – 31 – 7th Day in the Octave – Reflective
Penultimate of a series of 5 minute daily podcasts for the Octave of Christmas. Today Card. Bacci keeps us very sober. Fr. Troadec takes us into three...
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CHRISTMASCAzT 2025 – 30 – 6th Day in the Octave – Astonishment
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for the Octave of Christmas. Bossuet to Troadec.. he shoots…. he SCORES. Exuperantius! yesterday’s podcast HERE.
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CHRISTMASCAzT 2025 – 30 – St. Thomas Becket – Wherein Fr. Z rants
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for the Octave of Christmas. I rant for a while about St. Thomas of Canterbury, and Church and State and … shepher...
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CHRISTMASCAzT 2025 – 29 – Six Thrones
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for the Octave of Christmas. Pius Parsch talks about the six throne of Jesus. Dom Prosper Guéranger on the wonder...
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CHRISTMASCAzT 2025 – 28 – St. John, Apostle and Evangelist
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for the Octave of Christmas. About the Beloved Disciple from Advent and Christmas with the Church Fathers: a seven...
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CHRISTMASCAzT 2025 – 27 – St. Stephen, Protomartyr
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for the Octave of Christmas. Today I explain the three feast days now so closely tied to Christmas, St. Stephen, S...
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CHRISTMASCAzT 2025 – 26 – Christmas Day
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Christmas and the Octave Fr. Troadec on the “marvelous night”. Fulton Sheen, opines. Yesterday’s podcast HERE.
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ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 25 – Vigil of Christmas – Rex Pacificus
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Fr. Parsch starts to lead us into the point of Christmas with observations about the...
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ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 24 – Tuesday 4th Week of Advent – Resolutions
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Fr. Troadec about charity and … whew… time. Card. Bacci hits us smack between the eye...
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ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 23 – Monday 4th Week of Advent – “Thy kingdom come!”
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Pius Parsch describes the progression of Advent and it’s ongoing importance for our s...
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DVENTCAzT 2025 – 22 – 4th Sunday of Advent – How we treat our neighbor says a lot
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today, we hear about the intersection of divinity and humanity and how we tend to tre...
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ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 21 – Ember Saturday 3rd Week of Advent – Smiles?
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Bl. Ildefonso on how we are more blessed than the patriarch and prophets. With refere...
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ADVENTCAzT 2025: 20 – Ember Friday 3rd Week of Advent – “A breath of fresh air”
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Joseph Ratzinger zooms to the heights he can reach about faith and reason and emotion...
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ADVENTCAzT 2025: 19 – Thursday 3rd Week of Advent – True love
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today a reminder from Fulton Sheen. It’s not a fanciful tale, it’s true. If we do not...
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ADVENTCAzT 2025: 18 – Ember Wednesday – 3rd Week of Advent – Embers and O and Golden Mass
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today is jampacked, liturgically. We enter today, 17 December, into the final stretc...
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ADVENTCAzT 2025: 17 – Tuesday 3rd Week of Advent – Patience
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today we explore what “conscience” means, how its gets things right, and how it goes...
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ADVENTCAzT 2025: 16 – Monday 3rd Week of Advent – Upcoming
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today we have a preview of the new week’s liturgical features. Then we hear Fr. Troad...
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ADVENTCAzT 2025: 14 – Saturday 2nd Week of Advent
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today we hear from a great book from TAN Books called Advent and Christmas with the C...
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ADVENTCAzT 2025: 13 – Friday 2nd Week of Advent
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today Fr. Troadec teaches about why some are scandalized by Jesus. Card. Bacci leans...
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ADVENTCAzT 2025: 12 – Thursday 2nd Week of Advent
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Joseph Ratzinger riffs on the person of the Baptist and the Christian imperative of m...
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ADVENTCAzT 2025: 11 – Wednesday 2nd Week of Advent
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today I found a passage wherein Joseph Ratzinger investigates the world-mired mindset...
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ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 10 – Tuesday 2nd Week of Advent
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent 2025 preparation. Today Fr. Troadec talks great sense about REALITY and spiritual progress. Card....
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ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 09 – Immaculate Conception
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent 2025 preparation. We hear from Pius Parsch today about the meaning of the Feast in the context of...
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ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 08 – 2nd Sunday of Advent
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent 2025 preparation. Pius Parsch show how this Sunday, this week, focuses on Jerusalem, which is symb...
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ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 07 – Saturday 1st Week of Advent
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation The striking figure of St. Nicholas Jesus, Son of Mary Linking Advent and illness Yest...
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ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 06 – Friday 1st Week of Advent
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation Today we hear about an approach to putting up the manger scene and the Christmas tree....
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ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 05– Thursday 1st Week of Advent
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation Today, we hear that the Church is perhaps bigger and smaller than we think. Fr. T expl...
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ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 04 – Wednesday 1st Week of Advent
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation Today Fr. Parsch explains the structure of Advent. Fr. Troadec explains why the world...
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ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 03 – Tuesday 1st Week of Advent
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation St. Bibiana is an example for us today How to be “perfect”
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ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 02 – Monday 1st Week of Advent
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent 2025 preparation. Today Fr. Troadec has thoughts about Advent. Card. Bacci talks about purity of h...
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ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 01 – 1st Sunday of Advent
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent 2025 preparation. Fr. Z rants a little. A note about discipline of prayer during Advent. The book...
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ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 00 – Saturday 24th and Last Week after Pentecost
Welcome to the ADVENTCAzTs for the year of our salvation 2025. A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent 2025 preparation. Some remarks abou...
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News of the Church 17 – 27 July 2025
It’s 27 July 2025 and it is the 7th Sunday after Pentecost. A couple years ago, I saw a movie called News of the World with Tom Hanks as a former conf...
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News of the Church 16 – 22 June 2025
Welcome to the 16th edition of News of the Church. It’s 22 June 2025 and it is the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost although in most places people are celeb...
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News of the Church 15 – 15 June 2025
Welcome to the 15th edition of News of the Church. It’s 15 June 2025 and it is Trinity Sunday, most feasts tell us what God does, but this one tells w...
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PODCAzT 60: Pentecost customs; St. Ambrose on the dew of the Holy Spirit
Originally Published on: May 16, 2008 Today is Friday in the Octave of Pentecost, or at least it ought to be in in the Novus Ordo as it is in the olde...
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