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- Gregg the Obscure on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday of Advent “Gaudete” – 2025: “many good points. Gaudete! this is not the same as being entertained and comfortable in the world. the desert fathers…”
- on ASK FATHER: Why do the TLM Gospels switch between “Ierusalem” and “Ierosolyma”? Wherein Fr. Z drills and then rants.: “Thank you for that learned exposition, Father Z — very instructive. Although I cannot find any indication that Jerome and…”
- on ASK FATHER: What’s the difference between the “rejoice” of “Laetare” Sunday of Lent and “Gaudete” Sunday of Advent?: “Thank you, Father. This is a lovely exposition. Buona continuatione…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1503: “The story is that the switch to Calibri was based on the idea that it (and perhaps other sans serif…”
- on 12 December – The pivotal Feast of St. Lucy, the year’s “darkest day”: “More on the Julian calendar that is very interesting. The creation the image of Our Lady on the tilma of…”
- on 12 December – The pivotal Feast of St. Lucy, the year’s “darkest day”: “Father I try in my incomplete way to pray the office especially during advent and lent. It is the office…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1504 – Tilma and bonus: “Paul Augustin Card. Mayer, OSB. One of the holiest souls I’ve ever encountered. Amazing man.”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1504 – Tilma and bonus: “1. R-b6 Black has few choices If . . . . . . a7-a6 2. R×a6# If . . .…”
- on I INSTANTLY added this book to my list! (Fr. Z POLLS): “Have read LOTR and The Hobbit so many times that last year my children gave me the hardbound set because…”
- on 9 December – Feast of St. Juan Diego. The AMAZING miracle for his canonization!: “So, a couple of Dominican nuns were ignorant of something well known to many others and this makes it fishy?…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1503: “@gsk: You can count me among those who are barely aware of the associations which are intimated by typefaces. I…”
- on I INSTANTLY added this book to my list! (Fr. Z POLLS): “Macarius, I still have not attempted Mark Walker’s translation, Hobbitvs Ille (2012) – might a New Year’s Resolution help, I…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1503: “@Not (above): I was open to the fake Sister Lucy thesis for a good while, but this put that theory…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1504 – Tilma and bonus: “White should play 1. Rb6, which puts Black into Zugzwang: If Black takes the Rook with his pawn, 2. Qa2+…”
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Category Archives: ADVENTCAzT
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 Church Fathers: a seven week Retreat on the Mystery and the Meaning of … Read More
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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 in hard about acceptance of God’s will no matter what. Yesterday’s podcast HERE.
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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 metanoia. Card. Bacci forcefully admonishes us about reception of the Word. Fulton Sheen is, as … Read More
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 of those who resist the teaching of the Virgin Birth. I wonder it pertains (via modernism) … Read More
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. Bacci administers a dose of medicine. Yesterday’s podcast HERE.
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 Advent and what it could indicate for our spiritual progress. LINK … Read More
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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 symbolic. We hear about the second week from Advent and Christmas with the Church … Read More
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 Yesterday’s HERE
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. Card. Bacci warns against activism. Fulton Sheen on God-life. You hear a … Read More
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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 explains how we will be judged by Christ in his humanity. Published … Read More
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Gregg the Obscure on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday of Advent “Gaudete” – 2025: “many good points. Gaudete! this is not the same as being entertained and comfortable in the world. the desert fathers…”
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