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Author Archives: Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
ADVENTCAzT 2025: 18 – Ember Wednesday – 3rd Week of Advent – Embers and O and Golden Mass
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today is jampacked, liturgically. We enter today, 17 December, into the final stretch before Christmas. Therefore at Vespers we start to sing the O Antiphons. Today is Ember … Continue reading
Daily Rome Shot 1506 – Bagpipes
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ADVENTCAzT 2025: 17 – Tuesday 3rd Week of Advent – Patience
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today we explore what “conscience” means, how its gets things right, and how it goes wrong. We drill into “patience”, which is a key point in the Mass … Continue reading
Daily Rome Shot 1505 – an appeal
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ADVENTCAzT 2025: 16 – Monday 3rd Week of Advent – Upcoming
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today we have a preview of the new week’s liturgical features. Then we hear Fr. Troadec on preparing to receive the graces God wants to give us at … Continue reading
Augustine v. Jerome, Gimli v. Legolas, and The Roman Thing. Wherein Fr. Z rants and digresses.
On Sunday I posted about the difference between Latin gaudete and laetare. In that post I commented on the mens of Roman liturgical use: to preserve. I wrote that “The Roman Thing… the Romanitas … that is the breath and heartbeat of … Continue reading
ASK FATHER: Why do the TLM Gospels switch between “Ierusalem” and “Ierosolyma”? Wherein Fr. Z drills and then rants. – UPDATED
UPDATE 15 Dec: Follow up question below. From a priest reader… QUAERITUR: Why do the TLM Gospels switch between “Ierusalem” and “Ierosolyma” as in today’s “Ierosolymis” when referring to Jerusalem? Father has been observant! Good question. Indeed, this week the … Continue reading
ASK FATHER: What’s the difference between the “rejoice” of “Laetare” Sunday of Lent and “Gaudete” Sunday of Advent?
From a reader… QUAERITUR What is the difference between gaudete and laetare? Gaudete seems to be 2nd person plural imperative, while laetare looks like an infinitive. Both mean “rejoice” but is there a subtle theological difference in meaning? Laetare Sunday … Continue reading
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday of Advent “Gaudete” – 2025
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for this Gaudete Sunday, the 3rd … Continue reading
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ADVENTCAzT 2025: 15 – 3rd Sunday of Advent “Gaudete”
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today we do a spiritual deep dive into the thematic Introit of Holy Mass which gives this 3rd Sunday of Advent its nickname: Gaudete… Rejoice! Yesterday’s podcast HERE.
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