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Once again this year I offer short daily podcasts to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord. Here is CHRISTMASCAzT 25, for St. Stephen’s Day.  Happy Boxing Day! These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you! Today Fr. Troadec (US HERE (English) – UK (French original) HERE) and Pope Benedict  (US HERE – UK HERE) talk about the meaning of St. Stephen, and why we celebrated him after Christmas. We hear tastes of Christmas Goes Baroque (US HERE – UK HERE) and Lapidabant Stephanum from Motecta Festorum Totius Anni of Palestrina (US HERE – UK HERE). Have some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Chime in if you listened. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though maybe not immediately. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading?  

Once again this year I offer short daily podcasts to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord. Here is CHRISTMASCAzT 24, for Christmas Day. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you! Today Fulton Sheen explains how Christ had no room at the in.  The text is from his Life of Christ.  US HERE – UK HERE Have some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Chime in if you listened. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though maybe not immediately. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading?

Once again this year I offer short daily podcasts to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord. Here is ADVENTCAzT 23, for Christmas Eve. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you! Today we hear Joseph Ratzinger explain that Love needed a mother and how we need Love.   We also have a taste of the Chœur des moniales Bénédictines de l’abbaye Notre-Dame d’Argentan, lovely chant of the Introit for Christmas Eve Day, Hodie scietis.  US HERE – UK HERE Have some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Chime in if you listened. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though maybe not immediately. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading?

UPDATE: Glitch fixed.  Wrong file got uploaded.  Sorry.  If the old one is still playing, it’s stuck in your cache.  Try downloading. Once again this year I offer short daily podcasts to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord. Here is ADVENTCAzT 22, for the 4th Sunday of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you! Today we hear about how we can fall into spiritual pride even while we conquer our principle faults.  My text is from From Advent To Epiphany by Fr. Patrick Troadec – US HERE (English) – UK (French original) HERE Have some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Chime in if you listened. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though maybe not immediately. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading?

From a reader… QUAERITUR: The Christmas Proclamation (from the Martyrology).  I know it is sung prior to Midnight Mass in the OF.  Does it fit in the Traditional Mass, or is it relegated to the hour of Prime? We are talking here about the Kalendas, the solemn announcement of the birth of the Savior.  It was sung at Prime.  Since Prime isn’t being sung in many places, and since we need to have these good customs in far greater use, I say go ahead and sing it before Midnight Mass in the Usus Antiquior. In the proclamation, the birth of Christ follows a list of important events, set points in history, which therefore puts the birth of Christ into the context of the history of salvation, beginning with the Creation of the world and culminating in the Nativity. Remember that in the ancient world there was no standard calendar.  So, one way to pinpoint events was to say what else was going on at the time according to other reckonings of time.  The overlap of the dates would then give you the desired result, like a chronological Venn Diagram.  The overlapping of the dates of the events cited in the Proclamation results in an accurate dating of the Nativity, that is 3/2 BC.  There is good scholarship that reinforces 3/2 BC and cleans up a dating error for the year of Herod’s death. I wrote about it at some length last year and made a recording for those who had to practice it.  HERE I found a good Gregorian notation for the 2018 Kalendas (for the 2019 dates) at the site of Cappella Gregoriana Sanctæ Cæciliæ olim Xicatunensis. Here is a fast recording for this year.

Once again this year I offer short daily podcasts to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord. Here is ADVENTCAzT 21, for Saturday in the 3rd Week of Advent. Gaudete! These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you! Today we hear a bit about the Nativity of the Lord from reflections on the Rosary by the late Archbp. Marcel Lefebvre.   Then Augustine and Sheen help us out. Have some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Chime in if you listened. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though maybe not immediately. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading?

Once again this year I offer short daily podcasts to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord. Here is ADVENTCAzT 20, for Friday in the 3rd Week of Advent. Gaudete! These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you! Today we hear a poem about Advent by Christina Georgina Rossetti (+1894). US HERE – UK HERE Have some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Chime in if you listened. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though maybe not immediately. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading?

Once again this year I offer short daily podcasts to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord. Here is ADVENTCAzT 19, for Thursday in the 3rd Week of Advent. Gaudete! These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you!   Today we hear about conscience.  My text is from From Advent To Epiphany by Fr. Patrick Troadec – US HERE (English) – UK (French original) HERE Have some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Chime in if you listened. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though maybe not immediately. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading?

Once again this year I offer short daily podcasts to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord. Here is ADVENTCAzT 18, for Wednesday in the 3rd Week of Advent. Gaudete! These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you! Today we have a taste of Peter Kwasniewski’s Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness: Why the Modern Age Needs the Mass of Ages US HERE – UK HERE Have some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Chime in if you listened. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though maybe not immediately. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading?

Once again this year I offer short daily podcasts to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord. Here is ADVENTCAzT 17, for Tuesday of the 3rd Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you! We are in the time of the O Antiphons.  I have an oooold page about them.  HERE Have some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Chime in if you listened. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though maybe not immediately. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading?

Once again this year I offer short daily podcasts to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord. Here is ADVENTCAzT 16, for Monday of the 3rd Week of Advent. These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you! Today we hear about the O Antiphons.  I have an oooold page about them.  HERE Have some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Chime in if you listened. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though maybe not immediately. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading?

Once again this year I offer short daily podcasts to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord. Here is ADVENTCAzT 15, for the 3rd Sunday of Advent. Gaudete! These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you! Today we hear about joyful longing, longing joy.  My text is from From Advent To Epiphany by Fr. Patrick Troadec – US HERE (English) – UK (French original) HERE Have some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Chime in if you listened. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though maybe not immediately. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading?

Once again this year I offer short daily podcasts to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord. Here is ADVENTCAzT 14, for Saturday of the 2nd Week of Advent These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you! Today we hear from Marcel Lefebvre about the Magnificat (hint: positive).  He has some things to say about liberals and modernists (hint: not positive). Have some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Chime in if you listened. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though maybe not immediately. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading?

Once again this year I offer short daily podcasts to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord. Here is ADVENTCAzT 13, for Friday of the 2nd Week of Advent These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you! Today a saint gives us advice about the family.  It includes … GO TO CONFESSION! Have some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Chime in if you listened. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though maybe not immediately. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading?

Once again this year I offer short daily podcasts to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord. Here is ADVENTCAzT 12, for Thursday of the 2nd Week of Advent These 5 minute offerings are a token of gratitude especially for my benefactors.  Thank you! Today we pry look into what most of us need a lot more of with the help of From Advent To Epiphany by Fr. Patrick Troadec – US HERE (English) – UK (French original) HERE Have some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Chime in if you listened. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though maybe not immediately. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading?