Feast the Lateran Basilica in Rome – November 9, 2023

November 9, 2023 Father Simon Says, Podcasts

Bible Study: Father discusses the historical context behind the feast of the Lateran Basilica (1:08) Ez 47:1-2, 8-9, 12 What were the messianic expectations?  Letters: (27:20) – Worshipping in spirit ... Read more

True Piety – November 8, 2023

November 8, 2023 Father Simon Says, Podcasts

Bible Study: (1:19) Rom 13:8-10 What is true piety?  Lk 14:25-33 Does Jesus ask us to turn our back on our families?  Letters (27:56) – Pharisees & the Law of ... Read more

Prophecy & Sincerity – November 7, 2023

November 7, 2023 Father Simon Says, Podcasts

Bible Study: (1:22) Rom 12:5-16ab Handing on the gift of God, prophecy, and sincerity  Letters (27:31) – Viaticum (31:26) – Apostolic pardon  (31:26) – Good book on the midrash (32:32) ... Read more

The Fulfillment of the Laws – November 6, 2023

November 6, 2023 Father Simon Says, Podcasts

Bible Study: (2:30) Rom 11:29-36 Father discusses the fulfillment of the law  Letters (18:57) – Does it have to be a Catholic cemetery? (19:36) – Lutheran ordination  (21:26) – Labyrinths  ... Read more

The Power of Conscience – November 3, 2023

November 3, 2023 Father Simon Says, Podcasts

Bible Study: (2:05) Rom 9:1-5 What is a conscience? Father explains Paul’s powerful words.  Lk 14:1-6 Is it legal to cure on the Sabbath?  Father discusses the Charismatic renewal  Letters ... Read more

Saint Walpurga & Saint Hildegard of Bingen – November 1, 2023

November 1, 2023 Father Simon Says, Podcasts

Saint Walpurga Father explains the life of this amazing medieval nun  Veni Creator Spiritus  Saint Hildegard of Bingen  Father explains the extraordinary life of this nun & mystic O Frondens ... Read more

What’s Our Job? – October 31, 2023

October 31, 2023 Father Simon Says, Podcasts

Bible Study: (1:48) Rom 8:18-25 What is our job as Christians? Lk 13:18-21 Father discusses building the kingdom Letters: (24:10) – Bible recommendation  (25:24) – St. Jude as patron of ... Read more

Smoking Gun? – October 30, 2023

October 30, 2023 Father Simon Says, Podcasts

Bible Study: (2:08) Rom 8:12-17 Father explains the smoking gun to his hairbrained theory  Letters (21:06) – Baptism & exorcism  (23:09) – Female diaconate (26:42) – Orthodox weddings (27:30) – ... Read more

The Good We Want – October 27, 2023

October 27, 2023 Father Simon Says, Podcasts

Bible Study: (2:05) Rom 7:18-25a Why don’t we do the good we want?  Lk 12:54-59 Father discusses the political situation of Jesus’ time Letters (23:36) – Priest and raising money ... Read more

How Grace Makes Us Like Jesus – October 26, 2023

October 26, 2023 Father Simon Says, Podcasts

Bible Study: (2:44) Rom 6:19-23 What is God like?  Father gives more dispatches from the Diocese of St. Dymphna in Northern Vermont  Letters:  (30:50) – Priest who is not in ... Read more

The Spirit of Vatican II – October 25, 2023

October 25, 2023 Father Simon Says, Podcasts

Bible Study: (2:33) Rom 6:12-18 What do we have to become & What is grace?  Letters (17:23) – I was invited to a same-sex wedding; what should I do?  (22:23) ... Read more

Let There Be Light – October 24, 2023

October 24, 2023 Father Simon Says, Podcasts

Bible Study: (2:39) Rom 5:12, 15b, 17-19, 20b-21 Father gives the history of the Pharisees  Letters (23:24) – I’m a Protestant and I need to clarify that Mary never sinned?  ... Read more