I'm a little late in posting, but here she be:

From the 7:30am Mass on Sunday, March 16, 2025, at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica, in Royal Oak, the Second Sunday of Lent, Year C.

My three points:

1. Temptations = Worldly Things
2. Transfiguration
3. For God

From the 7:30am Mass on Sunday, March 9, 2025, at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak, the First Sunday of Lent, Year C.

My three points:

1. Retreat / Retire
2. Lent
3. Going out into the Desert

From the 11:30am Mass on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica, the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C.

My three points:

1. The Kerygma:
   1. Created
   2. Captured
   3. Rescued
   4. Response
2. "Fruits"
3. Fraternal Correction

From the 6pm Mass on Sunday, February 23, 2024, the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica, in Royal Oak.

My three points:

1. Spritual Eyes
2. David vs. Abishai
3. The "Measure"

From the 7:30am Mass on Sunday, February 16, 2025, the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C, at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak.

My three points:

1. Eyes on Jesus
2. Is Jesus Merely an "Add On"?
3. Hope

From the 7:30 am Mass on Sunday, February 9, 2025, the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C, at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica, Royal Oak.

My three points:

1. Feeling Inadequate
2. Encounter
3. Go!

From the 7:30am Mass on Sunday, February 2, 2025, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak.

My three points:

1. Fear
2. Jesus' Rescue
   • He defeats the devil on the devil's own turf
3. "Let your servant go in peace" -Simeon

Resources:

• Fulton J. Sheen, On The Demonic, pp. 123-124.

From the 11:30am Mass on Sunday, January 26, 2025 at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica, the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C.

The overall theme is the last line of the first reading: "rejoicing in the LORD must be your strength!" I break it down into three points:

1. Hope
2. Parts of a Body
3. Jesus takes it on

Resources:

• C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, chapter "Membership"
• University of Mary, The Religion of the Day, Chapter IV "Catching All the Diseases of the World"
• Fulton J. Sheen, On the Demonic, p. 37: "The Church is not a continuing thing. It dies and lives again. It proceeds on the principal of Christ Himself, both priest and victim. We go along for a while, and we die. Like the serpent, we shed our skin. Like nature itself, we shed our leaves. Eventually there comes defeat, seeming decay, we are put in the grave, and then we rise again. The Church is always coming out of a tomb."

From the 7:30am Mass on Sunday, January 19, 2025 the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C, at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica, Royal Oak.

Jesus' Line to Mary:

• The New American Bible (the translation used at Mass): "Woman, how does your concern affect me?"
• The Revised Standard Version (generally a more literal translation): "O woman, what have you to do with me?"
• The New English Bible (Sheen's favorite translation): "Your concern, mother, is not mine."
• William Barclay's translation (famous Biblical scholar of the 1950's): "Lady, let me handle this in my own way."
• Arthur Pink's translation (wrote one of the best commentaries on the Gospel of John): "What to Me and thee."
• Fulton Sheen's translation: "What is to Me is to Thee."
• The actual Greek: "Τί ἐμοὶ καὶ σοί, γύναι." Literally: "What to Me and to thee, woman."

Three concrete ways to invoke Our Lady:

1. Pray the Rosary
2. Have a good statue of Our Lady
3. Devotion to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception

Resource: Archbishop Fulton Sheen's On The Demonic, Chapter 12: "Third Weapon against the Demonic: Mary, the Mother of Jesus"

From the 7:30am Mass on Sunday, January 12, 2025, the Baptism of the Lord, at The National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak.

My three pionts:

1. Baptism
2. How do God's Children Act?
3. Fire & Comfort

Conclusion: "You are my beloved son (you are my beloved daughter); with you I am well pleased."