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Category Archives: Patristiblogging
PODCAzT 05: Ambrose: De fuga saeculi
Here’s another podcast! This podcast (see below for a popup link) focuses on the Patristic selection for the second reading in the Office of Readings for Saturday of the 2nd Week of Lent. I read some of the Latin, but … Read More
Friday in the 2nd Week of Lent
We continue our Lenten journey through the prayers of Holy Mass with today’s SUPER OBLATA:Miseratio tua, Deus, ad haec peragenda mysteria,famulos tuos, quaesumus, et praeveniat competenter,et devota conversatione perducat.Per… prae… per. Interesting. con-petens… con-vers… Miseratio… devotio. This all should get … Read More
“Smite him on the face”
A while back I mentioned that I was starting to like St. John Chrysostom more and more. Here is an excursion into creative patristiblogging with John of the Golden Mouth. Here is an amusing little bit of a sermon in … Read More
PODCAzT 03: Pope Leo the Great on the transfiguration, the moon, etc.
It’s the 4th of March, the 2nd Sunday of Lent and the Roman Station today is at Santa Maria in Domnica. Welcome back to another Podcast from Fr. Z. See below. You might be interested in a couple of the … Read More
Wymyn priests with “y”s and Domnica without an extra “i”
Surely you have noticed that there is sometimes a scramble in the blogosphere for people to post entries about pretty much the saaame topics. I do it too, I know, but I usually try to do sometimes a bit different. … Read More
PODCAzT 02: St. Cyprian on The Lord’s Prayer
The second reading of today’s Office of Readings is from St. Cyprian’s De dominica oratione. Let’s look at this wonderful piece. In the Church of ancient North Africa, the Our Father was an important tool for the formation of new … Read More
PODCAzT 01: Augustine on Psalm 61
A few days ago I posted a link to an mp3 of a reading of part of a sermon by St. Leo the Great. I got a lot of mail about that. So, I thought I would do it again … Read More
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A taste of Leo for the Cathedra
Some of you lay folks out there probably recite the Liturgy of the Hours. Maybe you also use the Office of Readings. If you don’t read Latin, you might not know how glorious the sermons of St. Leo the Great … Read More
13 February: A Sabine saint’s feast
I miss The Sabine Farm very much, even though it is really cold there. I am told that water pipes recently broke at the Farm, though not in my house. Newer readers might not make the connection, but I call … Read More
31 January: St. Marcella
This is the feast of St. Marcella, one of the friends of St. Jerome (+420). She died in 410 during invasion of Alaric the Visigoth. We know about her mainly from the letters of her friend St. Jerome. Jerome wrote … Read More
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