From the 6pm Mass on Sunday, December 1, 2024, the First Sunday of Advent, Year C, at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak.

My three points:

1. How we Observe the Birth of Christ
2. Living as Christians
   • (One mistake I made: I called Keeping the Lord's Day Holy the Second Commandment, it is in fact the Third.)
3. "New Year's" Resolutions?
   • Ideas:
     • Read
       • The Magnificat
       • Pope Benedict's Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
       • Archbishop Sheen's Life of Christ, particularly through page 63
       • More suggestions from Unleash the Gospel
     • Pray
       • Kiss the floor when you wake up and dedicate the day to God
       • Marian devotion:
         • Daily Rosary, particularly focus on the Joyful Mysteries
         • At least pray a decade a day
     • Mass on Christmas Day: Spend Jesus' birth with Jesus

Homework: Make a New Year's Resolution: What can I do daily to prepare for the Lord's coming on Christmas Day?

From the 7:30am Mass at The National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica on Sunday, November 17, 2024 the Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B.

My three points:

1. The End Times
2. Shining Stars or Everlasting Horrors?
3. Living Mass Well:
   • • Baptized
     • In the state of grace (Confession)
   • The Mass:
     1. Offertory
     2. Consecration
     3. Communion

From the 9:30am Mass on Sunday, November 10, 2024 at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica, the Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B.

1. The First Commandment
2. Tithing
3. Faith

Resource:

Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery, 1901.

From the 11:30am Mass on Sunday, November 3, 2024, the Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak.

This homily was preached with the intention of forming the faithful in matters of responsible citizenship, in preparation for the upcoming election.

The main points:

1. What is the Place of Politics?
2. Navigating the Gray Areas
3. Abortion
4. The Nature of the Devil

Resources:

• First Homily of Pope John Paul II, October 22, 1978.
• Sheen, Fulton J. On The Demonic. Pp. 4 & 41.

From the 7:30am Mass on Sunday, October 27, 2024, the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak.

My four points:

1. 'I Want to Follow You, Jesus'
2. Grasping at What We Already Have
3. Division vs. Diversity
4. Grasping at Uniqueness

Resources:

• Ritter, Lawrence S. The Glory of Their Times.
• Sheen, Fulton J. On The Demonic.

From the 7:30am Mass on Sunday, October 20, 2024 at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak, the Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B.

My three points:

1. "For Many"
2. "A Ransom for Many"
3. Worldliness

Resources:

Fulton J. Sheen, On The Demonic.

From the 6pm Mass on Sunday, October 13, 2024, the Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica.

I tell a bit of my vocation story.

From the 7:30am Mass on Sunday, October 6, 2024 the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica.

My three points:

1. Jesus at Work
   • Jesus softens hearts, therefore divorce is no longer acceptable
2. Children
   • Jesus "bringing many children to glory"
3. The Anti-Creativity of Satan
   • Jesus says: "Let the children come to me"
   • The devil is against children being brought into God's glory. One of his tactics, is just to contracept children away.

From the 6:00pm Mass on Sunday, September 29, 2024, the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak.

My three points:

1. The Cost
2. Giving it All to the Lord
3. Mercy
   • God's almighty power and love is shown "above all by pardoning and showing mercy." (Collect for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time)

Conclusion: Letting the Lord be the Lord:

• Am I striving to bring every aspect of my life under the lordship of Christ? If it's not under His Lordship, it under someone else's (the devil's).

Resources:

• The reflection on the dominion of Sin and Death comes from Fr. John Riccardo's awesome book: Rescued

From the 7:30am Mass on Sunday, September 22, 2024, the Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak.

Resource:

• The Fulton Sheen quote originally comes from the 1941 book Declaration of Dependence, quoted the new book On The Demonic, p. 80.