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Category Archives: PODCAzT
LENTCAzT 2026 – 00: Shrove Tuesday – Shrove refers to being shriven
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Getting ready for the Church’s annual retreat when we will be confronted with reality.
PODCAzT 189 – Voices of the Fathers 04 – The Pilgrimage of Egeria
I recently rediscovered a slim volume entitled The Osterley Selection from the Latin Fathers, published in 1950. The preface praises the great classical authors—Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Virgil—yet insists that Christian also worthy. The collection includes brief selections from Fathers of … Read More
PODCAzT 188 – Voices of the Fathers 03 – Should Christians Go To The Public Games?
I was recently going through some old books and found a slim volume entitled The Osterley Selection from the Latin Fathers, edited by Joseph Crehan of Heythrop College, was compiled chiefly for seminarians, especially late vocations, at Campion College, Osterley, a … Read More
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OLDIE PODCAzT 127: The Eve of St. Agnes and a Bleak Midwinter
A friend reminded me that today is the Eve of St. Agnes, along with being the “birthday” of the Roman martyrs Marcellus, Prisca, Fabian, and Sebastian. Years ago – good grief 2012 – when I was reading poetry in podcasts … Read More
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PODCAzT 187 – Voices of the Fathers 02 – The Martyrdom of St. Cyprian
I was recently going through some old books and found a slim volume entitled The Osterley Selection from the Latin Fathers, edited by Joseph Crehan of Heythrop College, was compiled chiefly for seminarians, especially late vocations, at Campion College, Osterley, a … Read More
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PODCAzT 186 – Voices of the Fathers 01 – The Scillitan Martyrs
I was recently going through some old books and found a slim volume entitled The Osterley Selection from the Latin Fathers, edited by Joseph Crehan of Heythrop College, was compiled chiefly for seminarians, especially late vocations, at Campion College, Osterley, … Read More
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CHRISTMASCAzT 2025 – 33 – Octave of Christmas – Memories
The last of a series of 5 minute daily podcasts for the Octave of Christmas. Card. Bacci took us out of last year. He brings us in now with sound advice. Joseph Ratzinger reflects on the rhythm of life tied … Read More
CHRISTMASCAzT 2025 – 32 – 7th Day in the Octave – Reflective
Penultimate of a series of 5 minute daily podcasts for the Octave of Christmas. Today Card. Bacci keeps us very sober. Fr. Troadec takes us into three degrees of humility. Yesterday’s podcast HERE The wonderful Benedictines of Gower Abbey have … Read More
CHRISTMASCAzT 2025 – 31 – 6th Day in the Octave – Astonishment
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for the Octave of Christmas. Bossuet to Troadec.. he shoots…. he SCORES. Exuperantius! yesterday’s podcast HERE.
CHRISTMASCAzT 2025 – 30 – St. Thomas Becket – Wherein Fr. Z rants
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for the Octave of Christmas. I rant for a while about St. Thomas of Canterbury, and Church and State and … shepherds. Yesterday’s podcast HERE.
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