Jonathan Frakes (Commander Riker) | Great Rosary Campaign: Star Trek Edition

Welcome to Eternal Christenham, consecrated to our Lady for the glory of our Lord. I'm Joshua Charles.

So for this week's Great Rozer campaign, it's gonna be another Star Trek edition.

And the reason why, frankly, is because I love Star Trek. I have a great deal of affection, love, and care for the

cast that played the various characters of the different ships, different space stations, whatever it may be, and

it had a big role in my life since I was a little kid.

Star Trek is not a particularly Catholic show,

but it's got many elements of it that are very constant with the Catholic faith, great respect for life, very pro-life,

very big on human dignity.

And so I am just very, very thankful to all the cast members for the wonderful characters that they brought into my life and

how those characters helped me think, helped me

think about controversial topics,

you know, shoot higher in my own life, shoot for greater degrees of excellence, and

just provided some good old-fashioned fun. So

the famous saying in Star Trek from the Vulcans is Leblanc and Prosper.

Well, the ultimate living long and prospering is to spend eternal life with God in heaven.

And that's why I'm going to ask all of you to join me in praying the rosary for the conversion of

the cast that played the different Star Trek characters.

So this week, I'd like for us to pray for Jonathan Frakes who played Commander Riker, the first officer of the USS Enterprise D and E.

He was Picard's number one cat Picard.

And again, very, very fun character, always loved Commander Riker.

One of the things he was most famous for on the show is, you know, despite being the commander,

so not the guy, not the top guy, he would push back on Picard always respectfully,

but he would, he would have a red line at the captain's safety.

And Picard in one episode even says that that was the reason why he chose Riker to be his first officer,

because he saw that he would push back in an appropriately ordered way to him and wouldn't just

keel over and just say, yes, sir, you know, order is given, but he would actually think and respond in a

thoughtful way. And we see that throughout the show. So many cases of that with Riker and, you know,

Jonathan Frakes is doing a great podcast with Brent Spiner who played data.

It's a lot of fun and it's amazing how much energy and life and vitality these guys still have very

thankful, if they, if they see this video, I'm very thankful to both of you and it's particularly

this week for Jonathan Frakes. So if we could all pray the rosary for Jonathan Frakes conversion

and also offer his penance a holy hour before the blessed sacrament of our Lord, body, blood, soul,

and divinity in the Eucharist. So with that, we wish them live long and prosper by which we mean heaven

forever eternal life and we'll close with our normal anthem verse Psalm 73 verses 25 through 26.

Who have I in heaven but you and on earth I desire nothing besides you, my flesh and my heart may fail,

but the Lord is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.