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Please use the sharing buttons?  Thanks! Today is Tuesday of the 1st Week of Lent. Lent is fully underway.  Examine your consciences and… GO TO CONFESSION! With this audio offering, I continue a series of daily podcasts for Lent.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. I do this, first and foremost, in thanks to my donors.  http://www.wdtprs.com/lentcazt14/0107Lent2014.mp3 PS: Once again, my audio plugin is screwed up.  I hope these are working for you.  And my stats function won’t work either, so I have no idea how many people are listening.  Chime in! Share/Bookmark

Please use the sharing buttons?  Thanks! Today is Monday of the 1st Week of Lent. Lent is fully underway.  Examine your consciences and… GO TO CONFESSION! With this audio offering, I continue a series of daily podcasts for Lent.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. I do this, first and foremost, in thanks to my donors.  http://www.wdtprs.com/lentcazt14/0106Lent2014.mp3 PS: Once again, my audio plugin is screwed up.  I hope these are working for you.  And my stats function won’t work either, so I have no idea how many people are listening.  Chime in! Share/Bookmark

Please use the sharing buttons?  Thanks! Today is the 1st Sunday of Lent. We have passed through Lent’s narthex and we are in its body now. GO TO CONFESSION! With this audio offering, I continue a series of daily podcasts for Lent.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. I do this, first and foremost, in thanks to my donors.  http://www.wdtprs.com/lentcazt14/0105Lent2014.mp3 PS: Once again, my audio plugin is screwed up.  I hope these are working for you.  And my stats function won’t work either, so I have no idea how many people are listening.  Chime in! Share/Bookmark

Please use the sharing buttons?  Thanks! Today is Saturday after Ash Wednesday.  We are for one more day in the “narthex” of Lent. GO TO CONFESSION! With this audio offering, I continue a series of daily podcasts for Lent.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. I do this, first and foremost, in thanks to my donors.  http://www.wdtprs.com/lentcazt14/0004Lent2014.mp3 PS: Once again, my audio plugin is screwed up.  I hope these are working for you.  And my stats function won’t work either, so I have no idea how many people are listening.  Chime in! Share/Bookmark

Please use the sharing buttons?  Thanks! Today is Friday after Ash Wednesday.  We are in the “narthex” of Lent. GO TO CONFESSION! With this audio offering, I continue a series of daily podcasts for Lent.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. I do this, first and foremost, in thanks to my donors.  http://www.wdtprs.com/lentcazt14/0003Lent2014.mp3 PS: Once again, my audio plugin is screwed up.  I hope these are working for you.  And my stats function won’t work either, so I have no idea how many people are listening.  Chime in! Share/Bookmark

Please use the sharing buttons?  Thanks! Today is Thursday after Ash Wednesday.  We are in the “narthex” of Lent. GO TO CONFESSION! With this audio offering, I continue a series of daily podcasts for Lent.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. I do this, first and foremost, in thanks to my donors.  http://www.wdtprs.com/lentcazt14/0002Lent2014.mp3 PS: Once again, my audio plugin is screwed up.  I hope these are working for you.  And my stats function won’t work either, so I have no idea how many people are listening.  Chime in! Share/Bookmark

Please use the sharing buttons?  Thanks! Today is Ash Wednesday.  Spiritual war begins.  ”Discipline” begins. GO TO CONFESSION! Today is a day of fast and of abstinence for most of us. With this audio offering, I continue a series of daily podcasts for Lent.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. I do this, first and foremost, in thanks to my donors. Some of the music (at the end) was taken from the new Lent CD from the Benedictine nuns in Missouri, the disc Lent at Ephesus.  Buy.  Help nuns.  Simple. Share/Bookmark

Today is Shrove Tuesday, a day upon which many would seek to be “shriven” before the beginning of Lent.   In other words GO TO CONFESSION! It is “Fat Tuesday”.  When the discipline of Lent was more serious in the Latin Church, this was the last day you could eat animal fats, etc. With this audio offering, I am beginning a series of daily podcasts for Lent.  They are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. I am doing this again this year, first and foremost, in thanks to my donors. Share/Bookmark

Yesterday I neglected to repost, on the very Eve of St. Agnes, a PODCAzT I made a while back.  HERE I, fan of poetry that I am, read out Keat’s poem, 42 Spencerian stanzas.  It is very romantic and torrid and lush, with marvelous moments and imagery. It is imbued with the revival of romantic, courtly love which was coming back into vogue in the early 19th century.  The poem takes inspiration in part from a superstition, which I explain in an introduction. The Eve of St Agnes would inspire the Pre-Raphaelites, as a matter of fact.  One of their circle, was Christina Rossetti, a poet in her own right. Christina Rossetti wrote a poem which later was made into a Christmas carol: In the Bleak Midwinter.  We are still within the Christmas cycle until Candlemas, after all. When I first posted this, a few prudish knuckleheads had a spittle-flecked nutty in my combox, but we pretty much ignored or deleted them. Share/Bookmark

I hereby conclude my 5 minute daily podcasts with the Octave of Christmas. This year they are my token of gratitude for my benefactors who have donated and sent items from my wish list.  Thank you for pitching in so that others could benefit from your kindness. Here is CHRISTMASCAzT 32.  Have some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Please chime in if you listened and let me know how you are listened:Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading? Share/Bookmark

I stretched my 5 minute daily podcasts to the Octave of Christmas. This year they are my token of gratitude for my benefactors who have donated and sent items from my wish list.  Thank you for pitching in so that others could benefit from your kindness. Here is CHRISTMASCAzT 31.  Have some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Please chime in if you listened and let me know how you are listened:Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading? Share/Bookmark

My 5 minute daily podcasts continue for the Christmas Octave. This year they are my token of gratitude for my benefactors who have donated and sent items from my wish list.  Thank you for pitching in so that others may benefit from your kindness. Here is CHRISTMASCAzT 30.  Have some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! PS: My stat counter for this plugin has been screwed up.  Chime in if you listened. PPS: These podcasts are also available through my iTunes feed. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading? Share/Bookmark

Advent is concluded and so are the 5 minute daily ADVENTCAzTs.  This year as a token of gratitude for my benefactors who donate and send items from my wish list, I will make a few more to carry us into the Christmas Octave. Today’s is, I think, especially appropriate in light of attacks on God and religious faith in the public square. And so, here is CHRISTMASCAzT 29.  Have some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! PS: My stat counter for this plugin has been screwed up.  Chime in if you listened. PPS: These podcasts are also available through my iTunes feed. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading? Share/Bookmark

Advent is concluded and so are the 5 minute daily ADVENTCAzTs.  This year as a token of gratitude for my benefactors who donate and send items from my wish list, I will make a few more to carry us into the Christmas Octave. And so, here is CHRISTMASCAzT 28.  Have some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! PS: My stat counter for this plugin has been screwed up.  Chime in if you listened. PPS: These podcasts are also available through my iTunes feed. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading? Share/Bookmark

Advent is concluded and so are the 5 minute daily ADVENTCAzTs.  This year as a token of gratitude for my benefactors who donate and send items from my wish list, I will make a few more to carry us into the Christmas Octave. And so, here is CHRISTMASCAzT 27.  Have some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! PS: My stat counter for this plugin has been screwed up.  Chime in if you listened. PPS: These podcasts are also available through my iTunes feed. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading? Share/Bookmark