Father Simon Says

Check out this show from May 9, 2022

Acts 11:1-18

• Who was a Centurian and why was he important? 

Letters

• Father receives a question about abortion 
• Did Judas go to hell? 
• What is a novena? 

Word of the day: Discriminating 

Callers

• What does one do with Easter Candles that are half used?  And what does Father think of crosses with the resurrected Christ? 
• Why are young people attracted to Christianity, but not going to Catholic Church and also why do many young people don't go to Church at all?
• Question of the role of Pope Pius XII in the bombing of Monte Cassino and how much do you know about it?

Check out this show from April 28, 2023

Bible Study: (1:49)

Acts 9:1-20

• What makes this text truthful? 

Jn 6:52-59

• What does today's text actually say? 

Letters

• (22:13)- What is the 'world without end' in the Glory Be? 
• (23:46) - Question about dealing with a suicide
• (28:12) - I'm reading the ESV, why is it hard to find Catholic approved Red lettered Bibles?
• (32:48) - Singing of the psalms? 

Word of the Day: Authority (37:59)

Callers 

• (39:53) - We bought holy water fonts for my grandchildren; is it OK that they use it with their teddy bears? 
• (44:05) - Jesus says take my body and take my blood. But as Catholics we only take the bread. This seems unbiblical. Why?
• (46:22) - I don't chew the host, is that okay?
• (48:55) - What are my responsibilities as an aunt whose nephews don't practice the faith.

Check out this great show from April 27, 2023

Bible Study: (2:17)

Acts 8:26-40

• Why do we prepare people for Baptism? 

Jn 6:44-51

• Are you saved? 

Letters

• Father discusses 'being wrong' about yesterday's show
• (24:53) - I went to mass where they kneel and stand during different times (in Mexico) why? 
• (30:57) - I agree with Fr. Simon that being born is a process 
• (31:49) - Who chooses vestment colors? 

Word of the Day: Teach (36:24)

Callers 

• (40:25) - Is it okay for lay people to knock on doors, just like Jehovah's Witness and Mormons.  
• (42:23) - Why was it bad for Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge 
• (45:22) - In our congregation, we do go on knocking on doors and we go twice a week.
• (49:54) - We have a visiting priest and he lifts the ciborium instead of the host?  

Check out this great show from April 26, 2023

Bible Study: (2:20)

Acts 8:1b-8

• It matters who we know 
• How did the early Christians spread the faith? 

Jn 6:35-40

• What does it mean to see Jesus? 

Letters

• (23:31) - Jim asks about Passover calendars 
• (24:56) - How do I trust God more? 
• (28:06) - I went to a mass where the priest skipped the consecration

Word of the Day: Good News! (34:33)

Callers 

• (36:23) - How do we reconcile the evil of Abortion but the children still going to heaven?
• (39:44) - Children w/severe disabilities and receiving communion still?
• (42:01) - Could you comment on the 'American Catholic Church', and apparently priests could marry there.  Could you comment on that?
• (44:18) - Where is hell, is it in the world?
• (46:36) - What is the proper way to say the Our Father? 
• (48:36) - I'm taking an acting class, am I using God's name in vain?

Check out this great show from May 6, 2025

Check out this great show from April 24, 2023

Bible Study: (1:42)

Acts 6:8-15

• Father shares his theory about Act and the Gospel of Luke 

Jn 6:22-29

• What is the real work of God? 

Letters 

• (19:23) - How is David after God's own heart? 
• (28:28) - Communion service 

Word of the Day: Crown (32:05)

Callers

• (33:39) - Jesus descended into hell, could you explain?  
• (38:10) - How the average Jew could've possibly known that every sacrifice and liturgical ceremony pointed to Christ?
• (45:37) -  Could you explain Numbers 22: 21-39 to me? 
• (49:27) - My father recently passed away, and he wasn't Christian. Should I have baptized him?

Check out this encore show from April 29, 2022

Acts 5:34-42

• Father explains Jewish belief in life after death

Letters

• Father riffs more about silence in church
• I saw someone selling a relic of John Henry Newman; what should I have done? 
• Can we substitute Psalm 51 for the psalm of the day during Lent?
• Father answers a question about marriage and communion 

Word of the Day: Sat Down, going up

Callers:

• How to identify venial sins and what does it mean when my priest says he can't be my spiritual advisor?
• If Fr. Simon were to sell a relic, would he be 'Fr. Simony'?
• Can Father explain Matthew 7:21
• Can we inset belief in the Eucharist into the Creed? 

Check out this show from April 27, 2022

Acts 5:17-26

• What is heresy? 

Jn 3:16-21

• Is the Trinity actually easy to understand? 

Letters

• Father comments on the need for silence before mass
• Listener thanks Father for his priesthood and comments on the structure of priesthood

Word of the Day: Sad​ducees

Callers 

• My father was cremated.  Could I put him in a Church, is that considered a sacred place?
• Why in the scriptures does it say those who love the world will lose it and those who hate the world will find everlasting life.  Yet, God so loved the world.

Check out this show from April 28, 2022

Acts 5:27-33

• Father gives context about the book of Acts 

Jn 3:31-36

• Father talks more about the Trinity 

Letters

• Father reads a letter from a retired priest friend who bemoans the lack of respect during mass
• Listener writes in about her marriage and temptation 
• Father clarifies if Jesus had more siblings (*He didn't!)

Word of the Day: Ration

Callers 

• Is purgatory closed? 
• Could you explain to me Apophatic Theology?
• Who is the great harlot and who are the ten kings in Rev. 17?

Check out this Encore from April 17, 2023

Bible Study: (1:43)

Acts 4:23-31

• Father explains some of the meanings of the word 'God'

Jn 3:1-8

• What does it mean to be born from above? 
• What is religious consensus 

Letters

• (28:13) - What does it mean to cast lots? 
• (31:44) - Listener forgave her husband for cheating on her

Word of the Day: Rabim (Many)

Callers 

• (39:28) - 1 and 2 Maccabees, when was it accepted as canonical before the Council of Trent?
• (41:20) - Question about the guard's ear who was cut off and Jesus healing the ear, where in the Bible?
• (42:56) - Who is most responsible for the humiliation and assaulting of Jesus.  Was it the Romans?
• (47:04) - Comment on being saved by salvation alone and about yesterday's 2nd reading?
• (49:51) - What does he mean by original tongues, like Aramaic and also the diff b/w 'reborn' and 'born above'?