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LENTCAzT 2024 – 35: Tuesday in Passiontide – St. Joseph’s Feast!

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today Fr. Troadec has a beautiful reflection on St. Joseph. You can continue your video spiritual pilgrimage to today’s Roman Station, St. Maria in Via Lata, HERE.

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DAILY ROME SHOT 967 – And a video with a heck of a lot of common sense

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LENTCAzT 2024 – 34: Monday in Passiontide – The penance of Lent draws graces down from God.

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Fr. Troadec talks about the conversion of Nineveh and Jonah. The penance of Lent draws graces down from God. Roman Station is San Crisogono.  Here’s a video … Read More

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An eerie 1968 NBC documentary VIDEO: “The New American Catholic”. Fr. Z comments and reminisces about many things.

I spotted a video on Twitter/X. But first…  let me help you get into the mood. Now that that’s in your head…. The video I spotted is a 1968 documentary from NBC “The New American Catholic”. The Masses you see … Read More

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Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 1st Passion Sunday (5th Lent) 2024 and a POLL about veiled images

Let’s start with a poll, posted yesterday. What did you see in your parish?   Let’s have a poll.  Anyone can vote, but only registered users can comment.  Please use the combox.  You may also send or post photos of … Read More

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DAILY ROME SHOT 966 – With comments on the readings for these few days

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LENTCAzT 2024 – 33: 1st Passion Sunday – Pruning

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we review the process of pruning we have undergone since Pre-Lent and how the pruning is now going to be seriously stepped up in the Traditional Roman … Read More

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1st Passion Sunday – some notes

In the ancient Roman Church, before the establishment of what we now call Lent, we would have begun today, now called 1st Passion Sunday, a more intense fortnight fast leading to Easter morning.  It is important for us to keep … Read More

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LENTCAzT 2024 – 32: Saturday of the 4th Week of Lent – Don’t be deceived by outward piety

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Card. Richelieu gives excellent advice about either not being taken in by outward piety but lack of action or also preferment for the favored of the powerful. … Read More

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DAILY ROME SHOT 965 – Catholic Chess Club on Chess.com?

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15 March – Annual ramble about the #IdesOfMarch

We call today the Ides of March, made especially famous in the English speaking world by Shakespeare in his play Julius Caesar. Caesar: Who is it in the press that calls on me? I hear a tongue shriller than all the … Read More

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LENTCAzT 2024 – 31: Friday of the 4th Week of Lent – Jesus’ words and deeds are not just history, they are real today

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we continue with the connection of yesterday’s and today’s Masses in the Vetus Ordo with a insight of Pius Parsch which we should take with us to … Read More

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DAILY ROME SHOT 964 – Have some pie

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LENTCAzT 2024 – 30: Thursday of the 4th Week of Lent – The dead are raised. Baptism, Confession and You

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Pius Parsch helps us with the two resurrection stories in the readings for Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo, explaining that today’s Mass seems to be aimed … Read More

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DAILY ROME SHOT 963

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From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 24-03-10 – Bp. Fatty convalescing

March 10th, 2024 Dear Diary, Worst Lent ever. Even though I got vaxed a lot I still got the Covid again. Feel better, definitely on the mend, but it was pretty bad. I’d say sick as a dog, but not … Read More

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LENTCAzT 2024 – 29: Wednesday of the 4th Week of Lent – Openings and Exorcisms

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we go back in time to the special rites performed for the ancient catechumens on this day, once the mid-point of Lent. These rites eventually came to … Read More

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The Prayer for the Nine-Month Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe: 12 March – 12 December 2024

Text: Prayer of the Nine-Month Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe 12 March to 12 December 2024 O Virgin Mother of God, we fly to your protection and beg your intercession against the darkness and sin which ever more envelope … Read More

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DAILY ROME SHOT 962 – Bonus pics and video

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LENTCAzT 2024 – 28: Tuesday of the 4th Week of Lent – Christ the new Moses

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we hear from Pius Parsch about how Moses is a “type”, a foreshadowing, of Christ. You can continue your video spiritual pilgrimage to today’s Roman Station, San … Read More

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