The Selsey Podcast

On the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, the Church places before us the fundamental conflict of the Christian life: flesh against Spirit, God against Mammon, anxiety against trust in Providence. Our Lord does not forbid prudence or responsible care, but warns against allowing created things to become masters of the heart. The remedy is the order of grace: Primum quærite regnum Dei — “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God.” In the Eucharist, the command reaches its fulfilment, for the King whom we are told to seek gives Himself to us as our true security, strength and final good. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/09/04/todays-homily-feria-of-sunday-xiv-post-pentecost/

Pope St Pius X was raised from humble origins to the Chair of Peter and made the restoration of all things in Christ the programme of his pontificate. A parish priest at heart even as Pope, he defended the Catholic Faith against Modernism, renewed priestly formation and ecclesiastical discipline, restored sacred music, promoted frequent Holy Communion and the early Communion of children, and insisted that authentic reform means bringing souls, worship and the Church herself into deeper conformity with Christ. His feast calls us not merely to admire his courage and holiness, but to allow Christ to restore every part of our own lives beneath His sovereign rule. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/09/03/todays-homily-st-pius-x-pope/

Saint Stephen of Hungary shows that Christian authority is not possession but stewardship. Crowned around the year 1000 after succeeding his father in 997, he used his power to establish and defend the Catholic Faith in Hungary, yet the propers reveal the deeper source of his greatness: “the law of his God is in his heart.” His kingship was therefore governed by Christ, measured by the Cross, and exercised in the knowledge that every ruler must one day render an account. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/09/02/todays-homily-st-stephen-of-hungary/

This spiritual conference reflects on the central theme of Nuntiatoria CXXI: “Seek first the Kingdom of God.” Drawing on the edition’s articles on the Traditional Mass, Eucharistic belief, priesthood, papal authority, the Church in China, diocesan restructuring, Lourdes, the FHR end-of-life case and the relics of the Resurrection, it argues that every external crisis ultimately demands an interior response. Christ’s words, “the kingdom of God is within you,” become the key to discernment, prayer and conversion: before institutions can be reordered, Christ must reign in the intellect, will, conscience and affections of the individual soul.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 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/

St Aidan and St Raymond Nonnatus reveal two dimensions of Christian stewardship: the obligation to spend what God has entrusted to us for His glory, and the freedom that comes from surrendering ourselves entirely to Him. The Gospel of the talents warns against burying grace, while St Raymond’s commemoration reminds us that the deepest captivity is bondage to sin. Both saints ultimately point to Christ, who gave Himself without reserve as the price of our redemption. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/08/31/todays-homily-st-aidan-of-lindisfarne/

Saint Rose of Lima’s holiness was not founded upon extraordinary penances alone, but upon grace, charity, purity, patience and total dedication to Christ. Drawing upon the Mass of her feast and the parable of the wise virgins, this homily shows that the true question is not whether we can imitate Rose’s austerities, but whether our own lamps contain the oil of living faith and charity when the Bridegroom comes. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/08/30/todays-homily-st-rose-of-lima/

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/

Join HE +Jerome and Fr Stanislaus FMCD for a frank and searching discussion every Wednesday of the latest Nuntiatoria edition, 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

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