"Rejoicing in the LORD must be your strength!"
Release Date: 01/27/2025
The Ascension and Hope
Fr. Dave Tomaszycki Podcasts
From the 6pm Mass on Sunday, June 1, 2025, The Ascension of the Lord, Year C at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica, Royal Oak. My three points: Hope The Ascension The Body
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Unity with ... ?
Fr. Dave Tomaszycki Podcasts
From the 11:30am Mass on Sunday, May 25, 2025, the Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year C at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak. (We used the first reading from the Sixth Sunday of Easter, and the second reading and Gospel from the Seventh Sunday of Easter.) My three points: Bureaucracy Needed "That they may all be one" Let's get Concrete
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To "Be"
Fr. Dave Tomaszycki Podcasts
From the 6:00pm Mass on Sunday, May 18, 2025, the Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year C, at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica. I kind of winged it this Sunday, I preached without notes. Here are the three points I was trying to make: The Problem "Leisure" How to "Be" Resources: Leisure: The Basis of Culture, by Josef Pieper
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Peace and Right Order
Fr. Dave Tomaszycki Podcasts
From the 7:30am Mass on Sunday, May 11, 2025, at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak, the Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year C. My Three Points: Pope Leo XIV and Peace Right Order Does Jesus Know Me?
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Moving to St. Peter's in Mount Clemens
Fr. Dave Tomaszycki Podcasts
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A Tribute to Pope Francis
Fr. Dave Tomaszycki Podcasts
Sunday of Divine Mercy, Year C Sunday, April 27, 2025, 9:30am A Tribute to Pope Francis Intro: • Good morning!...
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What did the Angel Say to Jesus?
Fr. Dave Tomaszycki Podcasts
From the 7:30am Mass on Sunday, April 13, 2025, at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak, Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord. My one point: "And to strengthen him and angel from heaven appeared to him." Just what did the angel say / do to strengthen Jesus?
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Boring, Old Sin vs. Something New
Fr. Dave Tomaszycki Podcasts
From the 7:30am Mass at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak, on Sunday, April 6, 2025, the Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year C. My three points: Boring, Old Sin "Something New" A New Creation
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A Dozen Points on the Prodigal Son and his Father
Fr. Dave Tomaszycki Podcasts
From the 7:30am Mass on Sunday, March 30, 2025 at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica, the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year C. My dozen points: "Sinners" "He Welcomes Sinners" 'You are Dead to Me!' The Father Let Him Go Time to Think "Black Grace" "Coming to his Senses" Conversion The "Father Caught Sight of Him" "He Ran" Apology Cut Short The Older / Righteous Son References: The reference from Peter Kreef comes from his book Jesus Shock! (my favorite book!). The reference from Pope Francis comes from his book that came out for the Year of...
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Repent!
Fr. Dave Tomaszycki Podcasts
From the 7:30am Mass on Sunday, March 23, 2025 at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak, the Third Sunday of Lent, Year C. My three points: Fire & Brimstone Jesus is in fire & brimstone mode today! 51% Where does Jesus say we just have to be better than average? Repent! "I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish" -Jesus
info_outlineFrom 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:
- Hope
- Parts of a Body
- 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."