From the 7:30am Mass, the Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C, Sunday, August 24, 2025 at St. Peter Catholic Church in Mount Clemens.

My three points:

1. A Loving Father
2. A Loving Father Disciplines
3. "Where Are You From?"

From the 7:30am Mass on Sunday, August 17, 2025, the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C, at St. Peter Catholic Church in Mount Clemens.

My three points:

1. Gospel: Jesus comes to... divide?
2. Old Testament: Jeremiah is "demoralizing" us!
3. The Fight

P.S. I thought this homily went better than the 10am homily. But, if you want to see the 10am homily, it can be found here (the homily starts at 21:58).

The Ninetheenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C on Sunday, August 10, 2025 at St. Peter Catholic Church in Mount Clemens.

I really only had two points this weekend:

1. The Wait
2. Giving God a Chance

Conclusion: Some concrete ideas:

• On the negative side:
  • Turn the cell phone off for a period of time every day
    • At least turn the ringer off
  • Limiting social media
  • Turn off the news
• On the positive side:
  • Come to Mass early to prepare our hearts
  • Come to church on Wednesday afternoons for Adoration
  • Praying with the Scriptures
  • Get up a few minutes early to pray and dedicate the day to God
  • Putting prayer time right on the calendar

From the 10am Mass on Sunday, August 3, 2025, the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C at St. Peter Catholic Church in Mount Clemens.

I kind of winged this homily. I wrote a homily and didn't like it. When I went to print it, it wouldn't print. I took it as a sign from God, scrapped the homily, and preached off the cuff. Here are the three points I was trying to make:

1. Vanity of Vanities
2. Earthly things
3. I'm going to need a bigger... heart

From the 10am Mass on Sunday, July 20, 2025 at St. Peter Catholic Church in Mount Clemens, the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C.

My three points:

1. "Laborers"
2. Being - "the better part"
3. Labor and Prayer

Conclusion: How can I be with the Lord and my family the rest of this summer?

From the 10am Mass on Sunday, July 6, 2025 at St. Peter's Catholic Church in Mount Clemens, the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C.

My three points:

1. A bit about myself
2. My "Dream"
3. St. Peter

From the 7:30am Mass on Sunday, June 22, 2025, the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, Year C, at The National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak.

For my last Mass at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica, I preached from the upper pulpit (the one Fr. Coughlin always used to use).

My three points:

1. What does it cost me?
   • God doesn't ask for much, He only asks for everything
2. The Order of the Mass
   • If we live Mass well, God consumes us
3. Tithing

Resource:

• Here is Archbishop Fulton Sheen explaining the Mass: The Meaning of the Mass - Venerable Fulton Sheen - YouTube

From the 6pm Mass on Sunday, June 15, 2025, the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Year C at The National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak.

My three points:

1. Mystery vs. Mystery
   • The common understanding of "mystery"
   • The religious understandin of "mystery"
2. The Holy Trinity (explanations)
3. The Trinity in Marriage

Resource:

• I quote today's Preface extensively. Here is the entire Preface:
  • The Lord be with you.
  • And with your spirit.
  • Lift up your hearts.
  • We lift them up to the Lord.
  • Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
  • It is right and just.

• • It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation,
  • always and everywhere to give you thanks,
  • Lord, holy Father, almighty and eternal God.

• • For with your Only Begotten Son and the Holy Spirit
  • you are one God, one Lord:
  • not in the unity of a single person,
  • but in a Trinity of one substance.

• • For what you have revealed to us of your glory
  • we believe equally of your Son
  • and of the Holy Spirit,
  • so that, in the confessing of the true and eternal Godhead,
  • you might be adored in what is proper to each Person,
  • their unity in substance,
  • and their equality in majesty.

• • For this is praised by Angels and Archangels,
  • Cherubim, too, and Seraphim,
  • who never cease to cry out each day,
  • as with one voice they acclaim: Holy...

From the 7:30am Mass on Pentecost Sunday, June 8, 2025 at The National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica, Royal Oak.

Only two points this week:

1. A few explanations of the Holy Spirit
2. Some pratical applications