Is 48:17-19

• Can laws be gifts?
• What does coveting actually mean? Father explains

Mt 11:16-19

• Our likes and dislikes have nothing to do with the truth of God.

Mass Hysteria: Father talks about what’s wrong coffee table mass

Letters

• Is there anything wrong with saying ‘spirit’ instead of Holy Spirit?
• Question about sins and red worms!

Word of the Day: Vindicated

Callers:

• We have a family member who is gay and she wanted to bring her partner for Christmas We have a ten year old son. What should I do?
• What is the meaning of the word beseech, like we ‘beseech’ you?
• In the parable of the vineyards, it says ‘few are chosen’  could you explain?

Is 41:13-20

• What is the thrashing of grain?

Mt 11:11-15

• How can we be greater than John the Baptist?

Mass Hysteria: Father talks more about Cardinal Francis George and the liturgy

Letters:

• Question about religious art
• Why does the Eastern church make the sign of the cross differently
• Father reads a letter about the origins of liturgical abuse
• Father tells a story about a young boy who talks about the invisibility of God

Word of the Day:  Myrtle tree

Letters:

• What is  the Apostolic Pardon and does the priest always give it during the Last Rites?
• Does a solemnity last 7 days?
• If God made Jesus and Mary, who made God?

Gn 3:9-15, 20

• Fr. Simon on the Fall from Grace w/Adam and Eve

Eph 1:3-6, 11-12

• Jesus invites us to allow him to transform us
• The Church has a bride

Fr. Simon talks about the Immaculate Conception and it’s significance

Fr. Simon talks about multi-heavens

Mass Hysteria: The Mass is a Sacrifice and the purpose of life is sacrificial

Letters:

• Question about missing mass on a Holy Day of Obligation and difference between countries
• Question about making jewelry using ashes
• Book recommendation on the Book of Relevation

Word of the Day: Eve

Callers:

• Should I attend a memorial where the ashes are being scattered
• What is the difference b/w forgiveness of sin and absolution
• Caller shared that her late husband was a fan of Fr. Simon

Is 40:1-11

• Fr. Simon describes this reading as very beautiful
• Preparation for the coming of the Lord

Mt 18:12-14

• Father talks about why there’s rejoicing after finding that singular lost sheep
• You could always come back home to the Church

Mass Hysteria: The reason our civilization is in chaos is because of liturgical abuse and abandoning the idea of sacrifice

Letters:

• Father talks about a letter responding to a caller who’s husband had a porn addiction
• Question about the Shroud of Turin
• Question about Green Burials

Word of the Day: Comfort

Callers:

• Should I attend a wedding where someone is Jewish
• Question about doing English mass Ad Orientem
• Question about distributing communion during mass and disagreeing with my parish priest about this

Coal at 04:00

Lk 5:17-26

• The Pharisees didn’t know what to make of Jesus, why?
• Father also talks about the significance of Jesus’ miracles

Mass Hysteria: Father talks about an experience at a Byzantine Church and the significance of beauty

Letters:

• Father suggests a website with a Catholic liturgical calendar
• What is an indulgence?

Word of the Day: Papyrus

Callers:

• How should I understand my spouse’s pornography’s addiction
• What if I don’t fulfill my penance from confession before I go back to mass on Wednesday Dec. 8th. Could I still receive communion?
• I was reading the Epic of Gilgamesh which mentioned the flood. Was the flood in Genesis written before Gilgamesh or after?

Is 29:17-24

• Father discusses Judaism and the Messiah

Mass Hysteria: Father talks about mass tones

Letters:

• Is there a liturgical calendar for android?
• How can you be persecuted without a hair of your head destroyed?

Word of the day: Sternly

Callers:

• Why is the Muslim God a God of Might?
• Question about the St. Andrew Novena and what happens if I forgot to say yesterday.
• In Acts 23:21, the Jews swore a vow that they’ll kill Paul.  What happened to that vow and to them?
• Good book or resource that explains the mass more and why no more communion rails?
• Is it permissible to ask the priest if the penance he gives is too hard and you want a different one?

Is 26:1-6

• What is the righteousness of God?

Mt 7:21, 24-27

• Father talks about this passage in the context of Protestant and Catholic theology
• What happens if we have a religion of convenience?

Mass Hysteria: Father continues the theme of choir lofts!

Letters:

• Question about Catholic high school–we’ve lived in different cities, and all of them trained for college, not for vocational training.
• Why was Jesus buried in a cave and not in the ground?
• My Catholic nephew is marrying in the Ethiopian Church
• How can I dispose of broken rosaries?

Word: Ptosis

Callers:

• How do you know when you’ve done enough to be right with God?
• Why didn’t people listen to Simian if he knew who the savior was?
• Why does the priest bows low when he says the words of consecration?

Is 25:6-10a

• Father talks about his trip to the Holy Land

Mt 15:29-37

• Why did the crowds come to Jesus? Father talks about what the prayer of the believer is.

Mass Hysteria: Father answers a question about what the choir loft is

Letters:

• Father clarifies comments on Anglican Catholic Church
• What is remitted temporal punishment?

Word of the Day: Juicy

Callers:

• A  old friend of Father’s calls in
• Does Fr. Simon know the poem ‘A Priest’ by Lacordaire on the priesthood?
• In today’s readings, Immanuel spelled w/an ‘I’ and another place, it’s spelled w/an ‘E’, what’s the difference?
• Is the penitential rite at beginning of mass, the ‘I Confess to almighty God…’ a form of confession?

Rom 10:9-18

• Father thinks we need to look at the Jewish liturgy to understand this passage. Why? Father explains.

Mass Hysteria: Father talks about why we use bread at mass

Letters:

• Father discusses the differences between High Mass and Low Mass in the extraordinary form.
• Father discusses the merits of the saints
• Letter asking about the ‘Anglican Catholic Church’

Word of the day: Hired men

Letters:

• I like the show, and he’s great.  However, when you say, ‘it’s just my opinion’, you’re minimize it, and it’s really the teaching of the Church.
• When I pray for the Guardian Angels for my kids, should I pray to their Guardian Angel as well?
• My children have left the Church; what should I do?

Is 2:1-5

• Father shares his theory of David and Israel

Mt 8:5-11

• What’s significant about a centurion humbling himself before a Jewish rabbi?

Mass Hysteria: Father talks about a priest who cleared out the altar in a church and set up tables for a Thanksgiving dinner.

Letters

• Father responds to a letter about incense at mass
• Letter who writes about male virginity in the context of Catholic teaching
• Letter who writes about Hillsong church. Father talks about the movie, The Apostle
• A choir member writes in about the placement of the choir during mass
• Dan writes in about the differences between faith and hope

Word of the Day: Amazing

Callers:

• Wedding Feast of Cana why did Jesus reveal himself to the waiter?
• The Roman Centurion in today’s Gospel, could it have been St. Longanius, the one who pierced Christ’s side?
• I’ve seen people kneeling and standing for communion; what are you thoughts about that?