1/18/24 - Fr. William Rock, FSSP

Fr. William Rock, FSSP serves as Parochial Vicar at Regina Caeli Parish in Houston, Texas. He was ordained in October of 2019 and serves as a regular contributor to the FSSP North America Missive Blog and the TAN Direction Blog.     In Today's Show How often would you recommend that Catholics go to confession? Do you think every week is too much? Is the required once a year not enough? Christ did not possess a fallen human nature. But was the human nature he possessed like Adam's before the fall or like the human nature we will possess in heaven? What is the meaning of the phrase "Christ, the first-born from the dead?" Am I allowed to share in Communion at home with my family, or should it only be administered by a priest on Sunday? I was enrolled in the Brown Scapular on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. I've forgotten to say my Rosary a couple times. Must I confess this? Can you give me your definition of, and take on, "scrupulosity" and how you would counsel someone suffering from it? Is it even appropriate to refer to scrupulosity as a disorder, or would you describe it differently? Why is it that Matthew changes portions of Mark and vice versa? Which one do you think was published first? My wife and I budget how much to give the Church. Can you provide any guidance on the proportion we should consider giving to our FSSP parish vs the Fraternity itself if we would like to support both? Can we speak in tongues? I heard a priest make reference to the "faculties of the soul." Would you expand on this? If someone kills themselves to prevent them being used to kill others, would it be altruistic to kill themself? If we have confessed a grave or mortal sin in the past and not confessed the number of times it was committed, should we re-confess the sin and mention the number of times? Could you provide recommendations on discerning when to try and share the faith with loved ones and when it is OK to focus instead on praying for them?   Visit the show page at thestationofthecross.com/askapriest to listen live, check out the weekly lineup, listen to podcasts of past episodes, watch live video, find show resources, sign up for our mailing list of upcoming shows, and submit your question for Father!