A Catholic Life

 In today’s episode, on the 3rd Sunday after Easter, I address the following: 

1.      The Propers for the 3rd Sunday after Easter

2.      Catholic Anthropology: Understanding Body and Soul plus Memory, Intellect, and Will

This episode is sponsored by PrayLatin.com.PrayLatin.com offers Latin prayer cards to learn and share prayers in the sacred language. Learn your basic prayers in Latin conveniently on the go. Practice your pronunciation with easy-to-follow English phonetic renderings of Latin words. PrayLatin.com offers prayer cards in various formats, including Latin-English rosary pamphlets with the traditional 15 mysteries. Shop for additional Latin resources like missal booklets, server response cards, and more. Visit PrayLatin.com today. 

In today’s episode, on Good Shepherd Sunday, I address the following:

 Good Shepherd Sunday Reflection & Call to ActionThe Other Sheep Not of This Fold and It’s Not the MormonsHow Fasting on Vigils Was Reduced Over Time

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In today’s episode, on Low Sunday, I address the following: 

1.      Who was the First Person Christ Appeared to After His Resurrection?

2.      Traditional Blessing of Homes and Food for Easter

3.      Pope St. Leo the Great

4.      The Litany of Loretto Explained

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In today’s episode, on Easter Sunday, the most glorious all feastdays, I address the following:

Customs for Easter Friday & Easter SaturdayThe 153 Fish in the Gospel of John on Easter WednesdayThe Forgotten Pascal Commemoration of the Cross at Lauds & Vespers

And be sure to check out Episode 8 from last year, which covered:

Customs for Easter Week: Food, Activities, Greetings, and MoreThe Agnus Dei SacramentalThe Easter Duty: What it is and when it may be fulfilledThere is no incompatibility between abstinence and Pascaltide. Observe Friday Abstinence and even Saturday abstinence in Eastertide.

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In today’s episode, on this solemn Palm Sunday, I address the following: 

1.      10 Suggestions for Holy Week

2.      How Palm Sunday Changed Already by the 1962 Missal

3.      Keeping Spiritual Priorities First in the Family

This episode is sponsored by PrayLatin.com.PrayLatin.com offers Latin prayer cards to learn and share prayers in the sacred language. Learn your basic prayers in Latin conveniently on the go. Practice your pronunciation with easy-to-follow English phonetic renderings of Latin words. PrayLatin.com offers prayer cards in various formats, including Latin-English rosary pamphlets with the traditional 15 mysteries. Shop for additional Latin resources like missal booklets, server response cards, and more. Visit PrayLatin.com today.

In today’s episode, on Passion Sunday, I address the following: 

1.      Customs for Passion Sunday

2.      Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows in Lent

3.      Customs for St. Patrick’s Day

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In today’s episode, on Laetare Sunday, I address the following: 

1.      The Readings for the Fourth Sunday of Lent

2.      Laetare Sunday as Mothering Sunday

3.      10+ Great Ideas for Lenten Almsgiving

This episode is sponsored by PrayLatin.com.PrayLatin.com offers Latin prayer cards to learn and share prayers in the sacred language. Learn your basic prayers in Latin conveniently on the go. Practice your pronunciation with easy-to-follow English phonetic renderings of Latin words. PrayLatin.com offers prayer cards in various formats, including Latin-English rosary pamphlets with the traditional 15 mysteries. Shop for additional Latin resources like missal booklets, server response cards, and more. Visit PrayLatin.com today.

In today’s episode, on the Third Sunday of Lent, I address the following: 

1.      The Readings for the Third Sunday of Lent

2.      The Protestant Attack on Lenten Penance

3.      The Errors of Donatists and Why They Matter Today

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In today’s episode, on the Second Sunday of Lent, I address the following: 

1.       The Readings for the Second Sunday of Lent

2.       How the Traditional Latin Mass Reinforces Lent as a Fast

3.       Early Christians Fasted Even from Water During Lent

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In today’s episode, on the First Sunday of Lent, I address the following: 

1.       The Readings for the First Sunday of Lent

2.       The Stational Church Devotion

3.       20 Pious Practices for Lent

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In today’s episode, on Quinquagesima Sunday, I address the following: 

1.     The 2nd Edition of the Definitive Guide to Catholic Fasting & Abstinence

2.     The Readings for Quinquagesima Sunday

3.     Votive Feast of the Holy Face of Our Lord Jesus Christ Deformed in the Passion

4.     Customs for St. Valentine’s Day

5.     Ash Wednesday Fasting & Abstinence Rules

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In today’s episode, on Sexagesima Sunday, I address the following: 

1.     The 2nd Edition of the Definitive Guide to Catholic Fasting & Abstinence

2.     The Readings for Sexagesima Sunday

3.     The Commemoration of the Passion of Christ (Tuesday after Sexagesima)

4.     Upcoming Feastdays this Week

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In today’s episode, on Septuagesima Sunday, I address the following: 

1.     The Liturgical Changes for Septuagesima

2.     The Value of Fasting in Septuagesima

3.     The Feast of the Prayer of Christ

4.     Upcoming Feastdays this Week

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In today’s episode, on the 3rd Sunday after Epiphany, I address the following: 

1.     The National Day of Penance for Violations Against Human Life

2.     Upcoming Feastdays this week

3.     The Burial of the Alleluia

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In today’s episode, on the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany, I address the following: 

1.     Upcoming Feastdays this week

2.     The Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity

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In today’s episode, on the Most Holy Family, I address the following: 

1.     Feast of the Most Holy Family & the Consecration to the Holy Family

2.     The Forgotten Season of Epiphanytide

3.     Sanctify the New Year by Going Deeper Liturgically

4.     Restoring Lost Customs of Christendom

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In today’s episode, on the Sunday within the Octave of Our Lord's Nativity, I address the following: 

1.     Feastdays This Week: St. Sylvester, Feast of the Circumcision, the Holy Name, and More

2.     Indulgences for New Year's Eve and Day

3.     The Forgotten Vigil of the Epiphany

4.     The Traditions of Epiphanytide

5.     Why Catholics Are Not Modern Pharisees

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In today’s episode, on the Fourth Sunday of Advent, I address the following: 

1.     Midnight Mass & the Traditional Eucharistic Fast

2.     Indulgences for Praying the Divine Office on Christmas Day

3.     The Companions of Christ (Dec 26, 27, and 28) as Holy Days of Obligation

4.     Christmas Compilation of Articles, Sermons, and Prayers

5.     Friday in the Octave of Christmas Is Still Required Abstinence

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In today’s episode, on the Third Sunday of Advent, I address the following: 

1.     Gaudete Sunday

2.     The O Antiphons

3.     Upcoming Ember Days of Advent

4.     The Vigil and Feast of St. Thomas

5.     Restoring Customs of Christendom

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In today’s episode, on the 2nd Sunday of Advent, I address the following: 

1.     The Upcoming Feastdays this week

2.     The Pledge Against Indecent Films

3.     Was the Blessed Virgin Mary An Unwed Mother? No!

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4.     The Connection Between the Messages of Our Lady of Akita and Our Lady of Fatima

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In today’s episode, on the Last Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1.     The Last and Final Sunday after Pentecost

2.     Is there only one legitimate Catholic Calendar?

3.     The Upcoming Feastdays this week

4.     The St. Andrew Christmas Novena

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In today’s episode, on the 25th Sunday after Pentecost, which uses the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany readings, I address the following: 

1.     Does Christ Die at Each Mass?

2.     The Upcoming Feastdays this week

3.     The Alleged Turkey Indult: Is it Real?

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In today’s episode, on the 24th Sunday after Pentecost I address the following: 

1.     The Upcoming Feastdays this week

2.     The Advent Fast (St. Martin’s Lent)

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In today’s episode, on the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1.     The Octave of All Saints

2.     The Upcoming Feastdays this week

3.     The Importance of Church Consecrations

4.     Martinmas as the Catholic Thanksgiving

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In today’s episode, on the Feast of Christ the King, I address the following: 

1.     The Feast of Christ the King: Its Spirituality and Indulgences

2.     Prepare for Halloween the Catholic Way

3.     All Saints Day Traditions & Indulgences

4.     All Souls Day Traditions & Indulgences

5.     How Often May A Priest Say Mass?

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In today’s episode, on the 21st Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1.     The Words of St. Pius X on Israel

2.     The Errors of Islam

3.     The Errors of Judaism

4.     Upcoming Feastdays this Week

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In today’s episode, on the 20th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1.     The 2024 Traditional Catholic Fasting Calendar Now Available

2.     Upcoming Feastdays this Week

3.     Why Women Can’t Be Doctors of the Church

4.     The Importance of Holy Friendships


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In today’s episode, on the 19th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1.     Upcoming Feastdays this Week

2.     The Miracles of our Lord as Historical Realities

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In today’s episode, on the 18th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1.     October as the Month of the Holy Rosary & the Required St. Joseph Prayer

2.     Upcoming Feastdays this Week

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In today’s episode, on the 17th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1.     Upcoming Feastdays this Week

2.     The 3 Unique Styles to Depict St. Jerome in Art

3.     The Customs and Traditions of Michaelmas

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In today’s episode, on the 16th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1.     The Upcoming Ember Fasts: Their History and Importance

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In today’s episode, on the 15th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1.     When the Obligation for Attending Holy Mass Begins

2.     Indulgences for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

3.     Upcoming Feastdays this Week

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In today’s episode, on the 14th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1.     Upcoming Feastdays this Week

2.     Customs for the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

3.     The Magisterial Weight of Various Papal Documents

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In today’s episode, on the 13th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1.     Reminder of St. Michael’s Lent

2.     Upcoming Feastdays this Week

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In today’s episode, on the 12th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1.     Upcoming Feastdays this Week

2.     The Controversy of Honoring Coptic “Saints”

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In today’s episode, on the 11th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1.     All Things Assumption: The Vigil of the Assumption, Assumption Day, Octave of the Assumption, and Customs for the Assumption

2.     Historical Proof of Early Christians Believing in the Assumption and in the Immaculate Conception

3.     Upcoming Feastdays this Week: St. Joachim, St. Hyacinth, and St. John Eudes

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 In today’s episode, on the 10th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

Upcoming Feastdays this week, including the changing dates for St. John VianneySaturday Fasting & the Binding Force of CustomCatholic Productivity

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In today’s episode, on the 9th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1.       Upcoming Feastdays this Week

2.       The Often-Uncelebrated Feast of St. Peter’s Chains

3.     The Forgotten Feast of the Finding of St. Stephen’s Relics

4.     The Portiuncula Indulgence

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In today’s episode, on the 8th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1.     The Upcoming Assumption Fast

2.     Upcoming Feastdays this Week

3.     The Apparitions of St. James to Free Spain from Islamic Rule

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In today’s episode, on the 7th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1.     Should Civil Society Outlaw Sin?

2.     What Really Was the Spanish Inquisition?

3.     Upcoming Feastdays this Week


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In today’s episode, on the 6th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1.     Offering Up Fasting while in the state of grace for Priests

2.     Upcoming Feastdays this Week

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In today’s episode, on the 5th Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1.     Why and How to Practice the Presence of God

2.     The Octave of Ss. Peter and Paul and the Commemoration of All Holy Popes

3.     The Feasts of St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria and Ss Cyril and Methodius

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In today’s episode, on the 4TH Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1.     The Bula de Cruzada (the Crusade Bulls on Fasting in the Spanish World)

2.     The Fast of the Vigil of Ss. Peter and Paul on June 28th

3.     The Forgotten History of How Ss. Peter and Paul, on June 29th, Ceased Being an American Holy Day of Obligation

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In today’s episode, on the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost (Sunday within the Octave of the Sacred Heart), I address the following: 

1.     The Vigil of St. John the Baptist Customs

2.     The Nativity of St. John the Baptist, who was born without original sin

3.     Other Feastdays Coming This Week, including St. Aloysius, Patron of Catholic Youth

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In today’s episode, on the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost, I address the following: 

1.     The Feast of Corpus Christi with its Octave

2.     St. Anthony of Lisboa

3.     The Feast of the Sacred Heart with its Octave

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This is Episode 16 of the A Catholic Life Podcast.

In today’s episode, on Trinity Sunday, I address the following: 

1.     The Feast of the Most Holy Trinity and the Importance of Praying the Athanasian Creed

2.     The Upcoming Apostles Fast

3.     The Feasts of St. Francis Caracciolo, St. Boniface and St. Norbert

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In today’s episode, on Pentecost Sunday, I address the following: 

1.     The Ancient, Yet Forgotten Customs of the Octave of Pentecost

2.     The Upcoming Feasts in Honor of Our Lady this Week, the End of the Marian Month

3.     Can Popes Err? Part 1 & Part 2

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In today’s episode, on the Sunday within the Octave of the Ascension, I address the following: 

1.     The Octave of the Ascension

2.     St. Gregory VII

3.     St. Philip Neri

4.     The Vigil of Pentecost as a Day of Fasting and Abstinence

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In today’s episode, on the 5th Sunday after Easter, I would like to go over a few things:

1.     The Minor Rogation Days

2.     The Vigil of the Ascension

3.     Ascension Thursday and Ascensiontide

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In today’s episode, on the 4th Sunday after Easter, I address the following:

1.     The Forgotten May 8th Feast of the Apparition of St. Michael the Archangel

2.     The Feastday for this Week in May

3.     The Anniversary of the May 13th Apparition of our Lady of Fatima

I would like to thank Meaning of Catholic for sponsoring this episode. Meaning of Catholic has just launched its online store offering PDF copies of “The Definitive Guide to Catholic Fasting and Abstinence” (in 3 languages), “The Roman Catechism Explained for the Modern World,” and a few other great books to add to your library by authors like Timothy Flanders and Kennedy Hall. Please visit https://meaningofcatholic.com/shop/ to check them out today.

In today’s episode, on the 3rd Sunday after Easter, I address the following

1.     How the 1962 Calendar Is Not Traditional in the First Week of May: Honoring the Forgotten Feasts of St. John, Ss. Philip and James, and the Finding of the Holy Cross. 

2.     Understanding the Forgotten Eastertide Feast of St. Joseph with its Octave, which preceded the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker

3.     The Spirituality of May in Honor of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary

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In today’s episode, on the 2nd Sunday after Easter (known as Good Shepherd Sunday), I would like to go over a few things:

1.     Good Shepherd Sunday

2.     The Feast St. Mark and the Major Rogation Day, including Rogation Day Processions, Prayers of Blessing for Rogation Day, and how come colonies kept St. Mark’s Day as a Holy Day of Obligation

3.     Feastdays occurring this last week in April

I would like to thank Meaning of Catholic for sponsoring this episode. Meaning of Catholic has just launched its online store offering PDF copies of “The Definitive Guide to Catholic Fasting and Abstinence” (in 3 languages), “The Roman Catechism Explained for the Modern World,” and a few other great books to add to your library by authors like Timothy Flanders and Kennedy Hall. Please visit https://meaningofcatholic.com/shop/ to check them out today.

In today’s episode, on Low Sunday, also known as Quasimodo Sunday, I would like to go over a few things:

1.     Low Sunday – the Sunday of Many Names and How Sundays Are Given Latin Names in the Liturgy

2.     Why Penance Is Not Wrong for Pascaltide

3.     The Almost Election of Cardinal Rampolla

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In today’s episode, on Easter Sunday, the most glorious all feastdays, I address the following:

Customs for Easter Week: Food, Activities, Greetings, and MoreThe Agnus Dei SacramentalThe Easter Duty: What it is and when it may be fulfilledThere is no incompatibility between abstinence and Pascaltide. Observe Friday Abstinence and even Saturday abstinence in Eastertide.

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In today’s episode, on this Palm Sunday, I address the following:

1. The Strictness of the Holy Week Fast: Passion Fast & Xerophagiae 

2. Traditions for Holy Week: Indulgences, Forgotten Customs, & Suggestions for a Holy Week

Please spare a minute to pray for JoeSixPack, the author of Cantankerous Catholic, who has unexpectedly died. Requiescat in pace!

In today’s episode, on this Fifth Sunday of Lent (Passion Sunday), I address the following:

1.Passion Sunday: Veiling of Images & the Custom of Changing the Rosary

2.The Worship Owed to the Cross: Is it Latria or Dulia?

3.Feasts of St. John Damascene and St. John of Capistrano

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In today’s episode, on this Fourth Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday), I address the following:

1.     Laetare Sunday and the custom of the Papal Golden Rose

2.     The Transferred Feast of St. Joseph vs. the forgotten former Eastertide Feast of St. Joseph

3.     The Votive Feast of the Precious Blood (Friday after the Fourth Sunday in Lent)

4.     The History of American Anti-Catholicism of the Late 1800s and early 1900s

To start though, I’d like to remind everyone that Meaning of Catholic has launched its online shop and PDFs of my book on the Roman Catechism and my book on fasting and abstinence are available at https://meaningofcatholic.com/shop/. For the fasting one, English, Spanish, and Polish are all available there. So please check them out if you would like a PDF of any of these books. PDFs are only $9.99 each.

In today’s episode, on this Third Sunday of Lent, I address the following:

1.     There is No Salvation in Judaism

2.     Can I Eat Meat on St. Patrick's Day on a Friday in Lent?

3.     Who is Exempt From the Law of Fasting or Abstinence?

4.     The Feast of the Five Holy Wounds

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In today’s episode, on this Second Sunday of Lent, I address the following:

1.     Proving that our Lord Jesus Christ was a real person

2.     The Feastdays of this week, with an emphasis on St. Thomas Aquinas and St. John of God

3.     The Holy Shroud (Friday after the Second Sunday in Lent. This was kept in Turin, Italy)

To start, though, I’m happy to announce that Meaning of Catholic has launched its online shop, and PDFs of my book on the Roman Catechism and my book on fasting and abstinence are now available. For the fasting one, English, Spanish, and Polish are all available there. So please check them out if you would like a PDF of any of these books. PDFs are only $9.99 each.

In today’s episode, on this First Sunday of Lent, I would like to go over a few things:

1.     Each Feria in Lent Has Its Own Propers for Mass

2.     St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows whose feastday is on Monday

3.     The Feast of the Sacred Lance and Nails kept on Friday after the First Sunday in Lent in some places

First and foremost, though, keep up the disciplines you have begun, especially prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. And even though this is a Sunday and fasting is not done, I’ve written before how Sundays in Lent were still days of mandatory abstinence. For centuries, no meat or animal products were consumed during Lent – even on Sundays. Let’s bring this back. For a full treatment of the topic, see my article “Abstinence from Meat & Animal Products on Sundays in Lent,” published in 2021.

Above all, remember what Pope Benedict XIV famously lamented the following: "The observance of Lent is the very badge of the Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of the cross of Christ. By it we avert the scourges of divine justice. By it, we gain strength against the princes of darkness, for it shields us with heavenly help. Should mankind grow remiss in their observance of Lent, it would be a detriment to God's glory, a disgrace to the Catholic religion, and a danger to Christian souls. Neither can it be doubted that such negligence would become the source of misery to the world, of public calamity, and of private woe."

Quinquagesima Sunday is the final Sunday before the start of Lent. In this inaugural episode of the "A Catholic Life" Podcast, we consider how to prepare for the upcoming fast of Lent. We mention a comparison chart on how Lenten regulations have changed over time and we mention the newest book on the topic: "The Definitive Guide to Catholic Fasting & Abstinence" by Matthew Plese, published by Our Lady of Victory Press. We conclude by mentioning ways to make reparation this week for sins of Mardi Gras in the Votive Feast of the Holy Face of Our Lord Jesus Christ Deformed in the Passion.