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 Cardinal Richelieu gives us a cold slap of reality straight in the face. You hear some Arabic Christian Chant for Lent. You can continue your spiritual pilgrimage … Read More →
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Fr. Troadec talks about the demons that prompt people to impurity. Important. You can continue your spiritual pilgrimage to today’s Roman Station, St. Lawrence outside-the-walls (also the … Read More →
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Card. Richelieu speaks of something dangerous in the spiritual life. Fulton Sheen talks about the efficacy of the synodal (“walking together” process… er um… no, rather… about … Read More →
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Card. Richelieu speaks of excesses and Fulton Sheen address the “three intimacies”. You can continue your spiritual pilgrimage to today’s Roman Station, San Vitale, with a video … Read More →
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Fr. Troadec about external appearances. You can continue your spiritual pilgrimage to today’s Roman Station, Santa Maria in Trastevere, with a video visit HERE.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, you get Fulton Sheen and Card. Richelieu. His counsel about melancholy is helpful. You can continue your spiritual pilgrimage to today’s Roman Station, Santa Cecilia, with a … Read More →
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, Fr. Troadec explains the difference between two kinds of men. You can continue your spiritual pilgrimage to today’s Roman Station, Santa Balbina, with a video visit HERE.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, a brief but wise counsel from Card. Richelieu and an insight from Fulton Sheen. We continue our spiritual pilgrimage to today’s Roman Station, San Clemente, with a … Read More →
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, I have a little ramble about the 1st readings for Mass today in the Vetus Ordo, the Traditional Latin Mass supplemented by a comment from Bl. Ildefonso … Read More →
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we visit San Pietro in Vaticano. We hear about the thematic progression of the Lenten Ember Days and how the whole 1st week of Lent ties together … Read More →
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we visit Santi Dodici Apostoli and hear a useful spiritual counsel. We continue our spiritual pilgrimage to the Roman Station with a video visit HERE.
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we continue our spiritual pilgrimage to the Roman Stations by visiting San Lorenzo in Panisperna. A video visit to San Lorenzo, made by a friend in Rome, … Read More →
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we continue with Card. Richelieu’s counsel about progress. We all have faults. We all have merits. How to view them in myself and in others? A video … Read More →
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we continue with Card. Richelieu’s counsel about progress – or not – on our faults and false progress in the spiritual life. A video visit to the … Read More →
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we continue with Card. Richelieu’s simple and practical advice about taking on penances. A video visit to the Roman Station, St. Peter in Chains, made by a … Read More →
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today, we have a spiritual counsel by Armand Jean du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu about being super pious but, in truth, sinning. Fulton Sheen touches on touch, and … Read More →
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Today Card. Richelieu gives counsel about the fulfillment of one legitimate duties and responsibilities as having primacy over any other works of piety or charity. We hear about … Read More →
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf · News of the Church 02 An audio “gazette” of Catholic things. 00:39 Quick Re-intro 01:21 “Les Amis du Monastère” #187 10:24 QST – December 2023 14:94 Angelus – Nov/Dec 2023 17:42 Bp. Robert Barron on the … Read More →
An audio “gazette” of Catholic things. 00:00 Introduction 05:50 Livy on the Sacred Geese 09:33 The Wanderer 13:35 Crux 24:00 Catholic News Agency 31:34 Silverstream Priory 34:34 Latin Liturgy Association 40:00 Exit 41:10 Memorare in Latin You will hear sung … Read More →
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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.
Almighty and eternal God, who created us in Thine image and bade us to seek after all that is good, true and beautiful, especially in the divine person of Thine Only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, grant, we beseech Thee, that, through the intercession of Saint Isidore, Bishop and Doctor, during our journeys through the internet we will direct our hands and eyes only to that which is pleasing to Thee and treat with charity and patience all those souls whom we encounter. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.