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LENTCAzT 2023 – 12: 2nd Sunday of Lent – Sticking to Tradition

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santa Maria in Domnica TODAY: Bl. Ildefonso has a brief, beautiful insight into the importance of adhering to our traditions. We learn that once there was no … Read More

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LENTCAzT 2023 – 11: Ember Saturday in Lent: Transfiguration

Roman Station: St. Peters Collect: Santa Maria in Traspontina TODAY: We hear about the Saturday Ember Day and St. Peter’s Basilica and then Fr. Troadec helps us out about the Transfiguration. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf · LENTCAzT 2023 – 11: Ember … Read More

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LENTCAzT 2023 – 10: Ember Friday 1st Week of Lent – Regret… to late

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Santi Dodici Apostoli – Collect: San Marco TODAY: We hear of the amazing church which is the Station.  Thomas a Kempis sobers us up. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf … Read More

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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ASK FATHER: Francis said priests must NEVER deny absolution. True? Wherein Fr. Z rants.

I’m getting a lot of questions about something that Francis said to seminarians from Barcelona.  Story at the Catholic Herald HERE. As the tale goes, Francis delivered profanity-studded “off the cuff” remarks to seminarians, including “not to be clerical, to forgive everything”, adding … Read More

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ASK FATHER: I failed to do my confession penance. Now what?

From a reader… QUAERITUR: I went to confession the other day to get back into the state of grace with the plan to get my spiritual life back in order after slacking and falling into habitual mortal sin during the … Read More

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ASK FATHER: Penance on Friday, Octave of Christmas

I had a note from a reader about the need to do penance on this coming Friday, which is the Octave of Christmas. The short answer is NO. Why?  Because according to Canon Law, Catholics are bound to do penance … Read More

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Minimalist Catholics or More?

Fr. Jerabek, at his blog, has a good reminder about Lenten penance, and Fridays, and fasting and abstinence. All Fridays of the year are days of penance.  Fridays of Lent are more specific. All Catholics who have completed 14 years … Read More

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Public penance and public reparation

The other day, Archbp. Vigano, bless him, issued a public letter in which he calls for disgraced Theodore McCarrick publicly to repent. I have on various occasions opined that bishops should prostrate themselves in the steps of their cathedrals in … Read More

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25 March – Feast of the Thief who “stole heaven”: St. Dismas

Today is Lady Day, the Feast of the Annunciation, the instant of the Incarnation… and we would be celebrating it if it were not for the vagaries of the Moon.  Palm Sunday and Holy Week have pushed our observance to another … Read More

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What would your Lent have been like in 1873?

For those of you who may think that Lent is a pretty tough time to be a Catholic, giving up chocolate and so forth, this is what our forebears did for Lent in these USA (my emphases and comments): DIOCESE … Read More

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