Frank Friar Fridays

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity 01.08.2025 9:06 ↓

Well, what's that mean for you? What is truly important in our lives?

For what, how and why do we pray? 25.07.2025 10:14 ↓

Let us ask, seek, and knock, not just expecting God to provide answers, but ready to be the hands and feet through which God's will is fulfilled on earth as it is in heaven. 

Are you a Martha or a Mary? That's not a question only for the women listeners 18.07.2025 7:42 ↓

This is a question we all need to answer.

What does the parable of the good Samaritan say to us? 11.07.2025 10:48 ↓

What concrete things can we do to truly live out the message of this parable?

A gospel reflection for Independence Day 04.07.2025 9:58 ↓

The gospel reading that recounts Matthew's call to follow Jesus is a call for us as we remember the gifts we have received as citizens of the United States.

We are all called to a constant conversion. What does that look like?? 27.06.2025 11:26 ↓

Peter and Paul show us the way.

How does what we experience at Mass change us? 20.06.2025 12:34 ↓

Hopefully, we recognize that our consuming the body and blood of Christ can make us like him.

This weekend we remember our fathers, and the connection to Our Father's love 13.06.2025 10:39 ↓

We thank God for the earthly fathers who, in their imperfect but beautiful love, gave us the first language to understand our Heavenly Father, who looks upon each of us today and says, “You are the most important person in the world to me.”

What is it that we celebrate on the Feast of Pentecost? 06.06.2025 10:03 ↓

It is about the receiving of a great gift.

Do we recognize that Jesus is always with us? 30.05.2025 12:20 ↓

And if we recognize that, what does it mean for us? How are we changed?

How do we remember those who have gone before us in the faith? 23.05.2025 14:24 ↓

We have likely all experienced the death of someone close to us. How do we remember them?

I give you a new commandment, love one another 16.05.2025 9:38 ↓

That's what we hear this weekend, but what does it mean for us specifically?

On Good Shepherd Sunday we celebrate a new shepherd 09.05.2025 9:48 ↓

And he is a Southsider!!! AND a White Sox fan. We also give thanks for our mother!

Peter, do you love me? 02.05.2025 9:31 ↓

Jesus asked that of Peter, and he asks it of us - and expects us to do something with that awareness.

Is Jesus here yet? 25.04.2025 12:33 ↓

That's what we hear the apostle, Thomas, ask, but we might ask ourselves.

Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior? 18.04.2025 9:48 ↓

Here's a great response next time someone asks that question.

Why do bad things happen to good people? 11.04.2025 9:48 ↓

The readings on Palm Sunday give us the reason.

Another broadcast from Rome: What is a Missionary of Mercy? 04.04.2025 24:49 ↓

I interview one of my fellow missionaries, Fr. John Marie Devaney OP of the Eastern Province. John is also a fellow podcaster and has his own show on Sirius XM. You'll have to listen to the podcast to get the details.

A broadcast from Rome 29.03.2025 10:15 ↓

This is recorded at the Basilica of San Clemente in Rome where I am attending the biannual meeting of the Missionaries of Mercy. In this broadcast I offer my reflections on my experiences and the hope that our Church and the world can see people of faith as builders of the kingdom of God in a troubled world.

How are we the face of Christ to the people in our lives? 21.03.2025 10:05 ↓

It's a big responsibility, but something each of us is called to?

God will lead us where we need to go.... 14.03.2025 7:28 ↓

....if we let God.

How will we find our happiness? 07.03.2025 9:43 ↓

It comes down to choices, and the choices are always are to make.

Special edition for Ash Wednesday 05.03.2025 7:26 ↓

Fasting during Lent needs to be more than giving up - it is taking up - taking up the practices that can bring us closer to God.

We are each called to see the beam in our own eye first... 28.02.2025 8:25 ↓

....and then to see, speak and act as if we are all disciples of Jesus Christ.

Love those who hate you, don't judge, don't resent, etc. etc. etc. 21.02.2025 8:45 ↓

Are these teachings of Jesus realistic? Well, you tell me!!