Fr. Dave Tomaszycki Podcasts

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: Eyes on Jesus Is Jesus Merely an " Add On "? 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: Feeling Inadequate Encounter 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: Fear Jesus' Rescue He defeats the devil on the devil's own turf "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: Hope Parts of a  Body Jesus takes it on   Resources: C.S. Lewis,  The Weight of Glory , chapter "Membership" Unive...

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...

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: Baptism How do God's Children  Act ? Fire & Comfort Conclusion: "You are my beloved son (you are my beloved daughter); with you I am well pleased."

From 6pm Mass on Sunday, January 5, 2025, the Feast of the Epiphany, Year C, at The National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak. This homily ended up being kind of a continuation, Part II, of my homily from two weeks earlier (December 22, 2024). December 22 focused on the darkness, this homily focuses on the Light. My Three Points: Historical Context The Rescue Created Captured Resc...

From the 6pm Mass on Sunday, December 29, 2024, the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, Year C, at The National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak. My three points: Order Obedience Hope   References: The definition of "hope" from the Catechism of the Catholic Church : "The theological virtue by which we desire and expect from God both eternal life and the gace we ne...

From the 6pm Mass on Sunday, December 22, 2024, the Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year C, at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak. Just how well can we understand the "Good News," the Gospel, if we don't understand the " bad news," the darkness? How dark  was it, before the coming of Christ? How dark  is it, when we have not given our lives over to Christ? In this homily, I ex...

From the 11:30 am Mass on Sunday, December 15, 2024, the Third Sunday of Advent, "Gaudete Sunday," Year C, at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak. My three points: Like Children on Christmas Morning Hope Let's Open Our Gifts a Little Early!

From the 9:30am Mass on Sunday, December 8, 2024, the Second Sunday of Advent, Year C, at The National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica. Only  two points this week: Minor Point: The Flesh Major Point: Fill in a Pothole

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: How we Observe the Birth of Christ Living as  Christians (One mistake I made: I called Keeping the Lord's Day Holy the  Second Commandment, it is in fact the Third.) "New Year's" Resolutions? Ideas: Read The  Magnificat Pope Benedict...

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: The End Times Shining Stars or  Everlasting Horrors ? Living Mass Well: Baptized In the state of grace (Confession) The Mass: Offertory Consecration 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. The First Commandment Tithing 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: What is the Place of Politics? Navigating the Gray Areas Abortion...

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: 'I Want to Follow  You , Jesus' Grasping at What We Already Have Division vs.  Diversity 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: "For  Many " "A  Ransom for Many" 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: Jesus at Work Jesus softens hearts, therefore divorce is no longer acceptable Children Jesus "bringing many children to  glory " The  Anti-Creativity of Satan Jesus says: "Let the children come to me" The devil is against childre...

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: The Cost Giving it  All to the Lord 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 th...

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: 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 Fyo...

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: Jesus as  Father What does Jesus do? The Kerygma 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: Justice The "Cancel Culture" Jesus Saves, the world does not Conclusion: "I do believe, help my unbelief!" (Mark 9:24)   Resources: The Catechism of t...

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.