Father Simon Says – September 23, 2021 – What’s Wrong with a Paneled House?

Hg 1:1-8

• Father begins with a basic Bible timeline

Lk 9:7-9

• Who was Herod the Tetrarch?

Mass Hysteria: Father comments on this article: https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/09/why-the-novus-ordo-needs-gregorian-chant

• Father talks more about why we go to mass on Sunday

Letters:

• Listener asks about funerals
• Listener writes in that a song, Oceans, was played during communion
• A listener asks about going to mass with her protestant mother
• Father talks about the over-explaining aspects of mass
• Is it acceptable to sing God Bless America at mass?

Word of the Day: Paneled house

Callers:

• What to do when I visit my brother, as his wife practices voodoo?
• As Catholics, when we’re praying for someone, are we supposed to touch them, like laying on hands?
• Is it okay to leave the blessed sacrament by itself, if I have to leave?
• Acceptable to be using old rosaries and some are broken to remake into a necklace?
• If you are a Roman Catholic, born and raised and go to a Maronite church, do I have to go through RCIA in that Church