A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Easter celebration. Fr. Troadec recounts the victorious elements of the Resurrection. At the end music from my home parish by Pietro Yon, Victimae paschali laudes. Yes, it’s really the parish’s … Read More →
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Triduum discipline. Fr. Troadec on “It is consummated”. You can continue your video spiritual pilgrimage to today’s Roman Station, Santa Croce in Gerusalemme HERE.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Triduum discipline. Benedict XVI speaks in a sermon for Holy Thursday about priesthood. The Roman Station is supposed to be St. John Lateran for the Chrism Mass and the Mass … Read More →
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Fulton Sheen talks about the Good Thief and Jesus. Fr. Troadec considers the reading of the Passion according to Luke at Holy Mass today. You can continue your … Read More →
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, I present a summary of how, since Septuagesima, we are being prepared – pruned – in our liturgical rites. Fr. Troadec tells us about the silence of … Read More →
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A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, even though the Feast of the Annunciation is transferred, we hear from Fr. Troadec about Mary’s “yes”. We are also reminded to be resolute about our resolutions. … Read More →
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A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, I speak about how to participate in and benefit from the sacred mysteries of Holy Week and the Triduum. Fr. Troadec looks into the triumphal entry of … Read More →
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Fulton Sheen talks about death. Different kinds of martyrdom. You can continue your video spiritual pilgrimage to today’s Roman Station, St John at the Latin Gate HERE.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Fr. Troadec points out that we are one week out from Good Friday and talks about the Sorrows of Mary on this her Feast day. You can … Read More →
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, on this Feast of St. Benedict, Pope Benedict XVI gives us a reflection. You can continue your video spiritual pilgrimage to today’s Roman Station, Sant’Apollinare HERE.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Thomas a Kempis gives us a meditation on death. Card. Bacci talks about St. Joseph and death. You can continue your video spiritual pilgrimage to today’s Roman … Read More →
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.
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 →
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 →
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 →
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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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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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 →
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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“Until the Lord be pleased to settle, through the instrumentality of the princes of the Church and the lawful ministers of His justice, the trouble aroused by the pride of a few and the ignorance of some others, let us with the help of God endeavor with calm and humble patience to render love for hatred, to avoid disputes with the silly, to keep to the truth and not fight with the weapons of falsehood, and to beg of God at all times that in all our thoughts and desires, in all our words and actions, He may hold the first place who calls Himself the origin of all things.”
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“He [Satan] will set up a counter-Church which will be the ape of the Church because, he the devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the anti-Christ that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. In desperate need for God, whom he nevertheless refuses to adore, modern man in his loneliness and frustration will hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give him enlargement of purpose, but at the cost of losing himself in some vague collectivity.”
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"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.