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"If we are going to change the culture, it needs to start with us. Fast and pray." - Fr. Richard Simon

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• Listen to Fr. Simon's Trinity Sunday Homily on: Ireland, The Land of Saints and Scholars, wail of Banshees, abortion and salvery, emperor's new clothes, the Chruch's "moralsuasion", among others. CLICK HERE.

• Listen to Fr. Simon's homily on Real Presence and Reverence to the Holy Eucharist. CLICK HERE. 

"I became a priest so that I could say Mass. That...the best thing that I can do for you, isn't preaching the sermon but it's bringing the Son of God form heaven into this Altar so that you can enter into union with Him. That's the best thing I can do for you. And that previledge is everything... Mass, it is everything. Mass is the heart of the universe. Mass, when heaven meets earth is the fixed center. Mass is the sacrifice that teaches the world the meaning of love." - Fr. Simon

• Listen to Fr. Simon's Homily on the Celebration of the Centennial of the Fatima Apparitions

"Miracles don't make faith, faith makes miracles" - Fr. Simon

Please Note: During the Homily, Fr. Simon asked Deacon O'Leary to read a part of the second reading  from the Homily by Saint Pope Gregory the Great, from the Office of Reading for October 14, 2017, 27th week of Ordinary Time:

There is something else about the life of the shepherds, dearest brothers, which discourages me greatly. But lest what I claim should seem unjust to anyone, I will accuse myself of the very same thing, although I fall into it unwillingly—compelled by the urgency of these barbarous times. I speak of our absorption in external affairs; we accept the duties of office, but by our actions we show that we are attentive to other things. We abandon the ministry of preaching and, in my opinion, are called bishops to our detriment, for we retain the honorable office but fail to practice the virtues proper to it. Those who have been entrusted to us abandon God, and we are silent. They fall into sin, and we do not extend a hand of rebuke.

But how can we who neglect ourselves be able to correct someone else? We are wrapped up in worldly concerns, and the more we devote ourselves to external things, the more insensitive we become in spirit.

For this reason the Church rightfully says about her own feeble members: They made me a keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept. We are set to guard the vineyards but do not guard our own, for we get involved in irrelevant pursuits and neglect the performance of our ministry. - Pope Saint Gregory the Great

Listen to the Homily, CLICK HERE.
source: http://www.liturgies.net/Liturgies/Catholic/loh/week27saturdayor.htm

Screwtape Letters written by C.S. Lewis narrated by John Cleese. Please CLICK HERE.

Listen to Fr. Simon's homily during the Freedom Mass celebrated at the St. Lambert Parish in Skokie, IL., July 4th, 2015. CLICK HERE