27 August 2026 – What I’m trying to do is described HERE (hint: rebuilding)
Originally Published on: Feb 9, 2026
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 Heythrop College, was compiled chiefly for seminarians, especially late vocations, at Campion College, Osterley, a Jesuit formation house in the Archdiocese of Westminster that closed in 2004. The 1949 preface praises the great classical authors—Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Virgil—yet insists that Christian writing shows a different kind of beauty. Pagans, it says, wrote with studied grace; Christians with passionate conviction. The volume includes selections from Ambrose and Augustine, Tertullian, Vincent of Lérins, Jerome, and others.
Some of you get Patristic readings in the office of readings in the Liturgy of the Hours but do you hear them? That’s another question. There are 42 brief readings in the book by authors whom you will more than likely recognize. I propose to read an English translation, make some comments and read the Latin.
Today we hear from a 4th century nun name Egeria, or sometime Etheria and her pilgrimage, Itinerario or Peregrinatio, an extended journey through Egypt, Sinai, Palestine, Syria, and Mesopotamia.
In this excerpt she describes Holy Thursday night liturgy in Jerusalem.
The last Voices of the Fathers from Tertullian about Christians attending Super Bowl Half Time shows is HERE
These podcast have been wonderful. Thank you Fr. Z . I am praying for your mother and you of course.
Thank you. We have a rather odd little pilgrimage area in the Chicago suburbs — perhaps there are many more I don’t know — but the one I am thinking of is a replica of the Portiuncula chapel, circa 1926, on a wealthy family’s estate in Oak Brook. I think it’s more a wedding venue than a place of liturgy.