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PASCHALCAzT 2026 – 47: Easter Sunday – Joy

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Easter celebration. Just listen! Yesterday’s podcast – HERE

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“He descended into Hell” – Notes on “The Harrowing of Hell”

Quiet day, as befitting Holy Saturday.  All is quiet in the Church as Christ’s soon to be reclaimed Body is in the tomb while His human fused divinity harrows Hell. I understand that Mel Gibson’s sequel to the Passion of the … Read More

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LENTCAzT 2026 – 46: Holy Saturday – The last indignity – UPDATED

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Triduum discipline. We hear about the Bapistry of St. John Lateran, where the ancient catechumens became new creations. Card. Schuster looks into the tomb while we wait Yesterday’s podcast – … Read More

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ROME 26/3– Day 11: Good Friday

Sunrise… 06:48 Sunset…19:40 Ave Maria Bell … 20:00 It is Good Friday.  It is a 1st Friday. It is the Feast of St. Richard of Chichester (+1253) which I cannot let go by without remembering a limerick my old pastor Msgr. … Read More

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From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-04-01 – A scare

April 1st, 2026 Dear Diary, I had a nasty little fright today. Finance thing. Worse, donor thing. Worst, Knights of Malta thing. Turns out there were phone calls which Fr. Gilbert intercepted from a couple of the local Malta gents, … Read More

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3 April: Feast of St. Richard of Chichester. A comment about science.

The feast of St. Richard of Chichester cannot go by without my remembering a limerick my old pastor Msgr. Richard Schuler would occasionally quote: There was an old Bishop of Chichester, Who said thrice (the Latin for which is ‘ter’), … Read More

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LENTCAzT 2026 – 45: Good Friday – Christ and our moral suffering

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Triduum discipline. We hear about Holy Cross in Jerusalem, the Roman Station for the Good Friday, where relics of the Passion are preserved with soil from Calvary. Card. Bacci talks … Read More

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ROME 26/3– Day 10: Thursday in Holy Week

On this Holy Thursday the Roman sun arose at 06:49. The tramonta will be at 19:39. Listen for the Ave Maria Bell at 20:00… you won’t hear it… except at The Parish™ where it rings at the more technically accurate time rather than merely … Read More

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ASK FATHER: 9 1st Fridays but how do Good Friday (April 3) and St. Joseph (May 1) impact that?

From a reader… QUAERITUR: If we are keeping the 9 first Fridays, with the Votive Mass of the Sacred Heart, how do Good Friday (April 3) and St. Joseph (May 1) impact them? I get your point: rulz iz rulz, … Read More

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LENTCAzT 2026 – 44: Holy Thursday – Why we eat the victim

A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. We hear about St. John Lateran, the Roman Station for the Mass of the Last Supper. Card. Schuster gives insights into the Lesson for the Mass and about … Read More

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