The Selsey Podcast

St Giles teaches the freedom of the soul that seeks God rather than human applause. Fleeing wealth, reputation and worldly security, he discovered that true holiness is formed in the hidden heart where the law of God is written. His life also reveals the contrast between virtues that humility conceals and sins that repentance must bring into the light. The Twelve Holy Brothers, commemorated with him, embody the same renunciation through martyrdom: both hermit and martyrs proclaim that Christ is worth more than anything this world can offer. Their witness finds its fulfilment in the Eucharist, where Christ Himself is hidden beneath sacramental appearances and calls us to become, like Giles, “hidden with Christ” in humility, detachment and fidelity. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/09/01/todays-homily-st-giles-abbot/

Saint Augustine’s feast reveals the triumph of divine grace over the restless and divided human heart. From intellectual pride, false religion, sensual disorder and ambition, Augustine was conquered not by argument alone but by grace, which healed his will, reordered his loves and made him one of the Church’s greatest Doctors. The Tridentine propers present him as the mouth opened by God in the midst of the Church, a faithful preacher of sound doctrine in an age unwilling to endure it, and a steward dispensing the wheat of truth.His teaching remains urgently relevant: freedom is not obedience to desire, but liberation from sin so that we may choose the good; doctrine cannot be reshaped to flatter “itching ears”; and no earthly civilisation is permanent. As Augustine died during the Vandal siege of Hippo, the earthly city was collapsing around him while he prepared to enter the City of God. With St Hermes the martyr, he teaches the same final lesson: love God above all things, keep the Faith, and belong to the City that cannot fall. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/08/28/todays-homily-st-augustine-of-hippo/

DEPOSITUM CUSTODI — Guard What Has Been Entrusted to You. This week’s spiritual conference takes the motto of Nuntiatoria CXX from ecclesiastical controversy into the interior life: how do we guard the Faith, grace, prayer, truth, charity, vocation and Tradition entrusted to us, and how do we hand them on without bitterness, compromise or distortion? From St Paul’s charge to Timothy to the witness of martyrs, the conference asks one searching question: if another generation received Catholicism exactly as we live it, what would we be placing into their hands?https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/08/18/accipere-non-fingere-to-receive-not-to-invent-a-spiritual-conference-for-nuntiatoria-cxix/Following the Angelus broadcast at approximatelyBST 6pm CEST 7pm EDT 1pm CDT 12pm MST/PDT 10am AEST 3am PHT 1amNewsletter https://www.nuntiatoria.orgApostolate https://www.oldroman.orgTo help Fr Stanislaus get home to his family and physio/rehab visit: https://americancristeros.org/💰To support this apostolate:Daily Mass broadcast https://gofund.me/ca98bc3c0Old Roman TV https://www.patreon.com/OldRomanTVTo support the clergy: https://gofund.me/63af7b8dhttps://www.paypal.me/ArchbishopOfSelseyFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/NuntiatoriaYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/OldRomanTVTwitter: https://x.com/OldRomanTV

St Bernard of Clairvaux became one of the most influential voices of twelfth-century Christendom not through office, wealth, or political power, but through holiness, prayer, intellectual discipline, and freedom from worldly ambition. Drawing upon the Mass In medio Ecclesiae, the homily presents Bernard as monk, reformer, theologian, counsellor of popes, controversialist, and deeply Marian saint, while also acknowledging his limitations and failures. His enduring relevance lies in his insistence that authentic Christian authority flows from conversion: prayer before speech, repentance before correction, contemplation before action, and love of God without measure. Within the octave of the Assumption, Bernard’s counsel, Respice stellam, voca Mariam — “Look to the Star; call upon Mary” — points ultimately to Christ, the Wisdom whom every saint must first receive before attempting to teach the world.https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/08/20/todays-homily-st-bernard-of-clairvaux/

Accipere, non fingere — “to receive, not to invent” — is presented as a governing principle of Catholic life, Tradition and witness. HE ✠Jerome Lloyd applies the motto to synodality, the sensus fidelium, liturgical reform, sacred space, Catholic identity, ecclesiastical authority and public witness, arguing that the Church must receive and faithfully transmit what God has revealed rather than manufacture new meanings through process, consensus or cultural accommodation. It concludes by turning the principle inward: the Christian must also receive reality, grace, vocation and the Cross, following Our Lady’s Fiat as the perfect model of faithful reception.Following the Angelus broadcast at approximatelyBST 6pm CEST 7pm EDT 1pm CDT 12pm MST/PDT 10am AEST 3am PHT 1amNewsletter https://www.nuntiatoria.orgApostolate https://www.oldroman.orgTo help Fr Stanislaus get home to his family and physio/rehab visit: https://americancristeros.org/💰To support this apostolate:Daily Mass broadcast https://gofund.me/ca98bc3c0Old Roman TV https://www.patreon.com/OldRomanTVTo support the clergy: https://gofund.me/63af7b8dhttps://www.paypal.me/ArchbishopOfSelseyFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/NuntiatoriaYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/OldRomanTVTwitter: https://x.com/OldRomanTV

St Hyacinth’s life reveals the true character of apostolic fidelity: receiving the Faith whole, carrying Christ faithfully, and refusing to abandon what God has entrusted to us. His legendary flight from Kiev with the Blessed Sacrament and an image of Our Lady becomes a powerful image of the Christian life, enriched by today’s commemorations of St Laurence and the Assumption. What matters at the end is not what we have accumulated, but what we have carried with us to God. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/08/17/todays-homily-st-hyacinth-op/

Saint Joachim stands quietly at the threshold of the Incarnation: father of the Blessed Virgin, grandfather according to the flesh of Our Lord, and model of hidden fidelity, stewardship, charity, and persevering hope. The Propers of his feast, the genealogy of Christ, the mystery of the Assumption, and the Good Samaritan together reveal how God works through generations, unseen sacrifices, and faithful households until all things converge upon Christ, present upon the altar. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/08/16/todays-homily-st-joachim-father-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary/

The Assumption reveals the final triumph of Christ’s grace in His Mother. Having completed her earthly life of obedience, service, contemplation and suffering, Mary is taken body and soul into heavenly glory. The ancient Gospel of Martha and Mary teaches the spiritual heart of the feast: amid all the cares of life, only one thing is ultimately necessary — the possession of God. Mary chose that “better part” from the moment of her Fiat, and in her Assumption we see both the dignity of the human body and the destiny promised to those who persevere in Christ. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/08/15/todays-homily-the-assumption-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary/

The Transfiguration reveals Christ’s divine glory not to exempt His disciples from the Cross, but to strengthen them for it. On Tabor, the Law and the Prophets bear witness to Him, while the Father commands: “Hear ye Him.” The feast therefore calls us to obedient faith, purification from sin, and perseverance through suffering. Like Pope Saint Sixtus II and his companions, we must descend from moments of consolation and remain faithful in trial, trusting that those who follow Christ through Calvary shall finally share His glory. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/08/06/todays-homily-the-transfiguration-of-our-lord-jesus-christ/

Join HE ✠Jerome and Fr Stanislaus FMCD for a frank and searching discussion every Wednesday, following the Angelus broadcast at approximatelyBST 6pm CEST 7pm EDT 1pm CDT 12pm MST/PDT 10am AEST 3am PHT 1amNewsletter https://www.nuntiatoria.orgApostolate https://www.oldroman.orgTo help Fr Stanislaus get home to his family and physio/rehab visit: https://americancristeros.org/💰To support this apostolate:https://gofund.me/ca98bc3c0https://www.patreon.com/OldRomanTVTo support the clergy: https://gofund.me/63af7b8dhttps://www.paypal.me/ArchbishopOfSelseyFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/NuntiatoriaYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/OldRomanTVTwitter: https://x.com/OldRomanTV