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Today is Tuesday in the 5th Week of Lent, Passiontide.  The Roman Station S. Maria in Via Lata. In gratitude especially to benefactors who help me and this blog, during Lent I’m once again offering 5 minute daily podcasts to encourage you in your own use of this holy season. Fulton Sheen in his The Moral Universe addresses the situation of souls in Purgatory If these podcasts are useful to you and yours, perhaps you might consider making a donation.

Here is CHRISTMASCAzT 29, for the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord. These 5 minute offerings began in Advent to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord, are a token of gratitude for my benefactors who donate and send items from my wishlist.  Thank you! Make some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Some great music for Christmas! US HERE – UK HERE Please chime in if you listened.  I read and need the feedback. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though in years past I have had problems with it. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading? Share/Bookmark

Here is ADVENTCAzT 28, for Saturday, Christmas Eve Day. What Christ did in His own human nature in Galilee, He is doing today. These 5 minute offerings, to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord, are a token of gratitude for my benefactors who donate and send items from my wishlist.  Thank you! Make some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Some music from this penultimate seasonal podcast. US HERE – UK HERE Please chime in if you listened.  I read and need the feedback. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though in years past I have had problems with it. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading? Share/Bookmark

Here is ADVENTCAzT 27, for Friday of the 4th Week of Advent. A quote from an unexpected writer! These 5 minute offerings, to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord, are a token of gratitude for my benefactors who donate and send items from my wishlist.  Thank you! Make some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Some music for Advent: US HERE – UK HERE Please chime in if you listened.  I read and need the feedback. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though in years past I have had problems with it. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading? Share/Bookmark

Here is ADVENTCAzT 26, for Thursday of the 4th Week of Advent. Virgins. These 5 minute offerings, to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord, are a token of gratitude for my benefactors who donate and send items from my wishlist.  Thank you! Make some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Some music used today: US HERE – UK HERE Please chime in if you listened.  I read and need the feedback. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though in years past I have had problems with it. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading? Share/Bookmark

Here is ADVENTCAzT 25, for Wednesday of the 4th Week of Advent. Some wisdom from Dietrich von Hildebrand. These 5 minute offerings, to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord, are a token of gratitude for my benefactors who donate and send items from my wishlist.  Thank you! Make some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! The book cited today Liturgy and Personality, which is out in a new edition. I warmly recommend both… Esolen and von Hildebrand. If you have never read anything by Dietrich von Hildebrand… whew… are you in for a treat.  It is a hard treat, mind you. US HERE – UK HERE Please chime in if you listened.  I read and need the feedback. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though in years past I have had problems with it. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading? Share/Bookmark

Here is ADVENTCAzT 24, for Tuesday of the 4th Week of Advent. What might be the benefit of lots of education? Fulton Sheen explains the situation. These 5 minute offerings, to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord, are a token of gratitude for my benefactors who donate and send items from my wishlist.  Thank you! Make some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Some music used today: US HERE – UK HERE Please chime in if you listened.  I read and need the feedback. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though in years past I have had problems with it. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading? Share/Bookmark

Here is ADVENTCAzT 22, for the 4th Sunday of Advent. Those who love God do not protest, whatever He may ask of them. These 5 minute offerings, to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord, are a token of gratitude for my benefactors who donate and send items from my wishlist.  Thank you! Make some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Some music used today: US HERE – UK HERE – Wellll… this is the choir, but isn’t the precise album. Please chime in if you listened.  I read and need the feedback. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though in years past I have had problems with it. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading? Share/Bookmark

Here is ADVENTCAzT 21, for Saturday of the 3rd Week of Advent.  The heavy time of Advent is here and thus we begin the great O Antiphons. I found a wonderful Advent sermon originally in Old English at the site A Clerk of Oxford (which I have bookmarked as daily reading).  You should see the nifty tie in of Christ with “arkenstone”.  But I digress. These 5 minute offerings, to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord, are a token of gratitude for my benefactors who donate and send items from my wishlist.  Thank you! Some music today from US HERE – UK HERE Make wonderful Mystic Monk Coffee – or tea – and have a listen! Please chime in if you listened.  I read and need the feedback. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though in years past I have had problems with it. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading? Share/Bookmark

Here is ADVENTCAzT 20, for Friday of the 3rd Week of Advent. Advice from the military for our leaders in the Church.  When we lower standards and tolerate low standards, the low standard become the new standard.  A hermeneutic for your reading of certain documents…. These 5 minute offerings, to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord, are a token of gratitude for my benefactors who donate and send items from my wishlist.  Thank you! Make some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Some music for Advent: US HERE – UK HERE The book with the passage that I quote: US HERE – UK HERE Please chime in if you listened.  I read and need the feedback. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though in years past I have had problems with it. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading? Share/Bookmark

Here is ADVENTCAzT 19, for Thursday of the 3rd Week of Advent. A “cutting” remark from Fulton Sheen. These 5 minute offerings, to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord, are a token of gratitude for my benefactors who donate and send items from my wishlist.  Thank you! Make some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Some music used today: US HERE – UK HERE Please chime in if you listened.  I read and need the feedback. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though in years past I have had problems with it. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading? Share/Bookmark

Here is ADVENTCAzT 18, for Wednesday of the 3rd Week of Advent. Shedding light on the situation. These 5 minute offerings, to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord, are a token of gratitude for my benefactors who donate and send items from my wishlist.  Thank you! Make some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Some music used today: US HERE – UK HERE Please chime in if you listened.  I read and need the feedback. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though in years past I have had problems with it. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading? Share/Bookmark

Here is ADVENTCAzT 17, for Tuesday of the 3rd Week of Advent. Let’s spend some time looking at dear St. Joseph. These 5 minute offerings, to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord, are a token of gratitude for my benefactors who donate and send items from my wishlist.  Thank you! Make some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Some music used today: US HERE – UK HERE Please chime in if you listened.  I read and need the feedback. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though in years past I have had problems with it. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading? Share/Bookmark

Here is ADVENTCAzT 16, for Monday of the 3rd Week of Advent. Those who love God do not protest, whatever He may ask of them. These 5 minute offerings, to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord, are a token of gratitude for my benefactors who donate and send items from my wishlist.  Thank you! Make some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Some music used today: US HERE – UK HERE Please chime in if you listened.  I read and need the feedback. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though in years past I have had problems with it. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading? Share/Bookmark

Here is ADVENTCAzT 15, for Gaudete Sunday the 3rd of Advent. Today we hear from Pope Benedict, who talks about the Virgin’s “Yes!” These 5 minute offerings, to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with the Lord, are a token of gratitude for my benefactors who donate and send items from my wishlist.  Thank you! Make some Mystic Monk Coffee and have a listen! Some music used today: US HERE – UK HERE Please chime in if you listened.  I read and need the feedback. PS: These podcasts should also be available through my iTunes feed, though in years past I have had problems with it. Let me know how you are listening.  Through the plug in on this post? Through iTunes? Downloading? Share/Bookmark