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.

From the 11:30am Mass on Sunday, September 15, 2024, the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, at The National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica.

My three points:

1. Why Does Jesus call Peter, "Satan"?
   • (I draw heavily from Archbishop Fulton Sheen here, particularly his Life of Christ, and On The Demonic. And Sheen's reflections on this come from the chapter "The Grand Inquisitor" in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.)
2. Jesus = Priest and Victim
3. We Need the Cross

Conclusion / Homework:

• Let's pray for the grace to pick up the right crosses (not all crosses lead us to Jesus), and then the stregnth to pick them up and follow Jesus

From the 9:30am Mass on Sunday, September 8, 2024 the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak.

My three points:

1. Jesus as Father
2. What does Jesus do?
   • The Kerygma
3. Focused on the Poor
   • The necessity of realizing our poverty before God

Conclusion: A few reflections on Fatherhood

From the 11:30am Mass on Sunday, September 1, 2024, the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak.

Layout of the Homily:

• Introduction: How God works. How the devil works.
• Body:
  1. Justice
  2. The "Cancel Culture"
  3. Jesus Saves, the world does not
• Conclusion: "I do believe, help my unbelief!" (Mark 9:24)

Resources:

• The Catechism of the Catholic Church, glossary definition of "justice"
• Lewis, C.S., That Hideous Strength, pp. 66-70, particularly p. 68
• Sheen, Fulton J., On The Demonic, a quote from p. 75, and another from p. 41

From the 8am Mass on Monday, August 26, 2024, Monday of the 21st week in Ordinary Time, Year II, at St. Paul Catholic Church in Tell City, Indiana.

From the baptisms at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica at 1:00pm on August 18, 2024.

I normally turn the recorder off right after Mass, and I normally don't use a microphone for baptisms, but on Sunday I forgot to turn the recorder off, and I just happened to use a microphone. So, I unintentionally caught my little baptism "homilette."