Father Simon Says

Check out this great show from June 2, 2023
(5:21) Bible Study: Mk 11:11-26 Father explains the readings today, highlighting the fig tree mentioned in it.


(15:49) Break 1
(16:26) Letters: Father answers letters about offering up sufferings from the past, are people as many people possessed today as they were back in Jesus’ time and is it okay to pray the memorare in the form of a rosary with the rosary beads?

(27:25) Break 2
(31:36) Word of the Day: Jesus

(33:43) Phones: Jim - Question about the definition of love and the will of Good, and how to apply that when we love God as God lacks nothing?
Gayle – Regarding Jesus When He uprooted the tables, and how to justify anger when people use that passage?

Check out this great show from May 30, 2024
Bible Study: (1:52)
1 Pt 2:2-5, 9-12
Growing into salvation!
Mk 10:46-52
Trust & salvation
Letters:
(28:00) - Thank you, Father for your views about the Diocese!
(30:55) - Catholicism, the Jews, and killing Jesus
Word of the Day: Boundary (39:03)
Callers:
(42:52) - I do the Liturgy of the Hours, I always thought the Feast of Corpus Christi was on a Sunday?
(44:53) - Could you explain the Agnus Dei?
(45:57) - Guardian Angel Prayer, to light and guard and rule and guide. Could you explain the word 'rule'?
(47:23) - Fornication, divorce and remarriage and how is that word interpreted and diff from the Protestants and way they look at it?
(49:16) - Conversion process in the early Church, and I'm involved in RCIA, what was it like converting during the Roman times?

Check out this encore from May 29, 2024
Bible Study: (2:11)
1 Pt 1:18-25
Commandments & obedience
Mk 10:32-45
The cross of Christ
Letters:
(22:22) - Born of the Spirit
(27:24) - Should priests be publicly hostile to each other?
(31:14) - Speak now or forever hold your peace
(33:24) - Vision of Jesus
Word of the Day: Ransom (36:58)
Callers:
(39:31) - If my friend where to die before getting last rites, is that the same as if you die before going to confession?
(42:38) - What has happened to the animals in Eden after the fall? And Where's Aretha Franklin music that you used to play? I'm an old neighbor of his.
(45:24) - Where can I find information about indulgences and visiting cemeteries?
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=1178
(46:38) - Regarding reconciliation, what does persona in Christi mean when confession is happening?
(48:49) - I noticed that the Eucharist looks like a roaring lion in the reliquary, does that have anything to do w/the 2nd coming?

Check out this great show from May 28, 2024
(1:54) Bible Study
1 Pt 1:10-16Father guides us through the importance of today's readings.

(23:13) Letters
Father shares a letter thank him for "getting on his soap box"
shares his insights on priests being moved around in the Church
and answers an email about the rich young man who didn't want to give up his riches for Jesus.

(38:40) Word of the Day
Mystery

(40:52) Phones
Mary - I went to mass today, the music was about Trinity Sunday, psalm was not the one listed. Even though there were all these mistakes, including homily, do I still get the grace of the sacrament?
Stuart - How to determine what parish I should attend as a new convert?

Check out this great show from May 17, 2024
Bible Study: (3:17) Acts 25:13b-21 How did we become Roman & Catholic?

Jn 21:15-19 We hear the first confession of the first Pope


Break 1 (18:10)
Letters: (19:31) Biblical languages program
Why do we say the Gloria at Mass? Third Luminous mystery - what does it refer to?
Private property in the Bible?
Consecrating Matza?
Eucharistic procession; in what order should everything go?

Break 2 (34:00)
Word of the Day: The emperor (35:09)
Callers: (37:28) Is there a document that tells me everything I should believe as a Catholic? AND After St. peter died - is it true that there were 5 patriarchs that shared power and not just one?
At Easter morning service - when the priest is doing the Holy water a lay person was helping him. Are they allowed to do this?
Question about Gluten Free hosts - how do they fit in with what Father was saying?
I became an usher and now I can't focus on the Mass. Any advice?
Two people are trying to get divorced. They don't go to church and weren't married in the church. Do they need anything from the priest when they divorce?