The Fr. Michael Niemczak Podcast

Preached on December 8, 2022.

Preached on December 4, 2022.

Preached on November 27, 2022.

Preached on Nov 20, 2022.    Christ the King Thirty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C | Roman Missal | Lectionary   First Reading 2 Samuel 5:1–3 Response Psalm 122:1 Psalm Psalm 122:1–5 Second Reading Colossians 1:12–20 Gospel Acclamation Mark 11:9–10 Gospel Luke 23:35–43  

Preached on November 6, 2022. Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 156 Reading 1 2 Mc 7:1-2, 9-14 It happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrested and tortured with whips and scourges by the king, to force them to eat pork in violation of God's law. One of the brothers, speaking for the others, said: "What do you expect to achieve by questioning us? We are ready to die...

Preached on October 30, 2022. Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 153 Reading 1 Wis 11:22-12:2 Before the LORD the whole universe is as a grain from a balance  or a drop of morning dew come down upon the earth.  But you have mercy on all, because you can do all things;  and you overlook people's sins that they may repent.  For you love all things that are  and loathe nothing that you...

Preached on October 23, 2022. Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 150 Reading 1 Sir 35:12-14, 16-18 The LORD is a God of justice,  who knows no favorites.  Though not unduly partial toward the weak,  yet he hears the cry of the oppressed.  The Lord is not deaf to the wail of the orphan,  nor to the widow when she pours out her complaint.  The one who serves God willingly is heard;  his p...

Preached on October 16, 2022. Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 147 Reading 1 Ex 17:8-13 In those days, Amalek came and waged war against Israel. Moses, therefore, said to Joshua, "Pick out certain men, and tomorrow go out and engage Amalek in battle. I will be standing on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand." So Joshua did as Moses told him: he engaged Amalek in battle...

Preached on October 9, 2022.

Preached on October 9, 2022. Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 144 Reading I 2 Kgs 5:14-17 Naaman went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times at the word of Elisha, the man of God. His flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean of his leprosy. Naaman returned with his whole retinue to the man of God. On his arrival he stood before Elisha and said, "...

Preached on October 2, 2022. Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 141 Reading 1 Hab 1:2-3; 2:2-4 How long, O LORD?  I cry for help  but you do not listen!  I cry out to you, "Violence!"  but you do not intervene.  Why do you let me see ruin;  why must I look at misery?  Destruction and violence are before me;  there is strife, and clamorous discord.  Then the LORD answered me and sai...

Preached on September 25, 2022. Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 138 Reading 1 Am 6:1a, 4-7 Thus says the LORD the God of hosts:  Woe to the complacent in Zion!  Lying upon beds of ivory,  stretched comfortably on their couches,  they eat lambs taken from the flock,  and calves from the stall!  Improvising to the music of the harp,  like David, they devise their own accompaniment....

Preached on September 18, 2022. Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time  Reading 1 Am 8:4-7 Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land! "When will the new moon be over," you ask, "that we may sell our grain, and the sabbath, that we may display the wheat? We will diminish the ephah, add to the shekel, and fix our scales for cheating! We will buy the lowly for silver, a...

Preached on September 11, 2022. Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 132 Reading 1 Ex 32:7-11, 13-14 The LORD said to Moses, "Go down at once to your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, for they have become depraved. They have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out to them, making for themselves a molten calf and worshiping it, sacrificing to it and crying out, 'T...

Preached on September 4, 2022. Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 129 Reading 1 Wis 9:13-18b  Who can know God’s counsel,  or who can conceive what the LORD intends?  For the deliberations of mortals are timid,  and unsure are our plans.  For the corruptible body burdens the soul  and the earthen shelter weighs down the mind that has many concerns.  And scarce do we guess the things...

Preached on August 28, 2022. Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 126 Reading 1 Sir 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 My child, conduct your affairs with humility,  and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts.  Humble yourself the more, the greater you are,  and you will find favor with God.  What is too sublime for you, seek not,  into things beyond your strength search not.  The mind of a sag...

Preached on August 21, 2022. Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 123 Reading 1 Is 66:18-21 Thus says the LORD: I know their works and their thoughts, and I come to gather nations of every language; they shall come and see my glory. I will set a sign among them; from them I will send fugitives to the nations: to Tarshish, Put and Lud, Mosoch, Tubal and Javan, to the distant coastlands...

Preached on August 15, 2022.

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Preached on August 7, 2022.

Preached on July 31, 2022.