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LENTCAzT 2023 – 09: Thursday 1st Week of Lent – When God is harsh with us.
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: San Lorenzo in Panisperna. The Collect church is Sant’Agata dei Goti. Today we hear a bit about the amazing number of church in Rome dedicated to St. … Read More
LENTCAzT 2023 – 08: Ember Wednesday in the 1st Week of Lent: Deathbed repentance
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Collect Church is San Pietro in Vincoli and the Roman Station is Santa Maria Maggiore. It is Ember Wednesday in Lent, so we hear briefly about Ember Days. Then … Read More
Posted in Four Last Things, LENTCAzT, PODCAzT
Tagged Catholic, death, fasting, Four Last Things, LENT, LENTCAzT, liturgy, penance, Roman Station
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LENTCAzT 2023 – 07: Tuesday 1st Week of Lent – Blindness
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Sant’Anastasia (Collect: San Nicola in Carcere) Fr. Troadec explores blindness and prayer. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf · LENTCAzT 2023 – 07: Tuesday 1st Week of Lent – Blindness
LENTCAzT 2023 – 06: Monday 1st Week of Lent – Certainty
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: St. Peter in Chains (Collect Sts. Cosmas and Damian) We begin some reflections on the one thing that is certain but that we cannot predict. Fr. John … Read More
LENTCAzT 2023 – 05: 1st Sunday of Lent – Forty
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: St. John Lateran. No Collect church today. Today we hear from Fr. Troadec about the importance of 40. Bl. Ildefonso cites St. Gregory the Great on what … Read More
LENTCAzT 2023 – 04: Saturday after Ash Wednesday – Gossip
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Sabina. The Collect: S. Lorenzo in Lucina. Today we hear the Prayer Over the People after visiting the Roman Station. Then Fr. Troadec gives us a … Read More
Posted in LENTCAzT, PODCAzT
Tagged Catholic, detraction, fasting, gossip, LENT, LENTCAzT, liturgy, penance, Roman Station
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LENTCAzT 2023 – 03: Friday after Ash Wednesday – Feast of St. Matthias
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf · LENTCAzT 2023 – 02: Friday after Ash Wednesday – Feast of St. Matthew Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Sts. John and Paul on the Coelian Hill (Collect: S. … Read More
LENTCAzT 2023 – 02: Thursday after Ash Wednesday
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: San Giorgio in Velabro (Collect: San Nicola in Carcere) Fr. John Zuhlsdorf · LENTCAzT 2023 – 02: Thursday after Ash Wednesday Today we hear about the military … Read More
ASK FATHER: Why fast? Why abstain?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Why do we have to fast and abstain? Why the Eucharistic fast? Why Ash Wednesday? Such a simply put question. Not a simple answer. It’s tied, I think, to another question from email. Also from a … Read More
LENTCAzT 2023 – 01: Ash Wedesday – We all fall down.
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, some notes about the beautiful responsory from the Blessing of Ashes, Emendemus in melius. We hear the second prayer of the blessing of ashes and attend to today … Read More
Posted in LENTCAzT, PODCAzT
Tagged Catholic, fasting, LENT, LENTCAzT, liturgy, penance, Roman Station
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LENTCAzT 2023 – 00: Shrove Tuesday – reminders
Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we hear what “Shrove” means as in Shrove Tuesday, another name for “Fat Tuesday” or “Mardi Gras”. What is Lent called and why? We have a few reminders … Read More
Posted in LENTCAzT, PODCAzT
Tagged Catholic, fasting, LENT, LENTCAzT, liturgy, penance, RomanStation
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Concerning fasting during Lent, fasting and abstinence on Ash Wednesday, eating endothermic moonfish, drinking coffee, and YOU
If you are serious as a Catholic, you know at all times what is on the calendrical horizon. If you are a follower of the Vetus Ordo of the Roman Church, you have additional help by means of the “gesima” … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged abstinence, fasting, LENT
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ASK FATHER: Did Vatican II extend the Good Friday fast also to Holy Saturday? What about Sacrosanctum Concilium 110?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: For a scrupulous person (me!), who would like clarity on his obligations: Is the extending of the Good Friday Fast to Holy Saturday obligatory? One translation of SC 110 says, “Let [the Paschal Fast] be celebrated … Read More
Ash Wednesday – Fasting, Abstinence, and You (with notes on alligator, endothermic moonfish, &, of course, muskrat)
According to the 1983 Code of Canon Law for the Latin Church, Latin Church Catholics are bound to observe fasting and abstinence on Ash Wednesday. Here are some details. I am sure you know them already, but they are good … Read More
Good Friday FASTING and ABSTINENCE explained, links to recipes, notes about what breaks the fast, what doesn’t
It’s Good Friday! Here are a couple of recipes for good food for this day of fasting and abstinence. Since I made the lentils, by the way, I now have celery and I won’t have to improvise. Fr. Z’s Kitchen: … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, 1983 CIC can. 915, ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged abstinence, fasting, Good Friday
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Ash Wednesday – Fasting, Abstinence, and You (with notes on alligator, endothermic moonfish, &, of course, muskrat
According to the 1983 Code of Canon Law for the Latin Church, Latin Church Catholics are bound to observe fasting and abstinence on Ash Wednesday. Here are some details. I am sure you know them already, but they are good … Read More
Project to fast and pray for the Church! It’s Ember Friday in September. DO IT!
Chaos is spreading. Synods loom on the horizon. Some aspects of the Church’s governance, teaching and worship are hardly to be recognized any longer as authentically Catholic, in continuity with what our forebears received and handed on. Remember the initiative … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Synod, Urgent Prayer Requests
Tagged fasting, prayer
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Initiative of Prayer and Fasting from now through October 2019 (and the Synod)
A call has been issued by Card. Burke and Bp. Schneider to fast one day a week and, daily, to recite one decade of the Holy Rosary in the lead up to, the prosecution of, and the immediate aftermath of … Read More
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, Synod, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged fasting, prayer, Synod
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Good Friday Reminder: Fasting, Abstaining, and You
Tomorrow is Good Friday. Let’s review our obligations before the day arrives so that we aren’t taken by surprise. Two days of the year we modern Latin Church Catholics are asked both to fast and to abstain from meat. According to the … Read More
Ash Wednesday – Fasting, Abstainence, and You together with notes on alligator, endothermic moonfish, and muskrat
According to the 1983 Code of Canon Law for the Latin Church, Latin Church Catholics are bound to observe fasting and abstinence on Ash Wednesday. Here are some details. I am sure you know them already, but they are good … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes
Tagged abstinence, Ash Wednesday, confession, fasting, LENT, liquids, works of mercy
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