Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

333 episodes of Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz since the first episode, which aired on October 8th, 2018.

  • 01/02/22 It's Not About You

    January 2nd, 2022  |  10 mins 9 secs
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    Homily from the Epiphany of the Lord. Worship can help us escape the trap that life is about us.

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    12/26/21 Be Careful

    December 26th, 2021  |  16 mins 40 secs
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    Homily from the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Family is the School of Love. Everyone is part of a family in some way. Be careful with each other.

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    12/25/21 Look Up

    December 25th, 2021  |  19 mins 19 secs
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    Homily from the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas Mass). God is with you on the bathroom floor. We are so distracted by so many things that we need to look up. But sometimes we need to look lower in order to see where God is in our lives.

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    12/19/21 Abounding Love: Love Commits

    December 20th, 2021  |  18 mins 6 secs
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    Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Advent. Love without a commitment remains an illusion. In order to truly grow in love, there needs to be the willingness to make a commitment. And there needs to be the ability to keep a commitment.

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    12/12/21 Abounding Love: Large Hearted

    December 13th, 2021  |  21 mins 29 secs
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    Homily from the Third Sunday of Advent. What we are called to do, we put the least amount of our heart into it. But to be magnanimous, we do even the minimum excellently. Abounding love is focused love.

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    12/08/21 Immaculate Conception

    December 8th, 2021  |  10 mins 2 secs
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    Homily from the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. God gives exactly what is needed for whatever He has called us to.

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    12/05/21 Abounding Love: What is Worth Your Heart?

    December 6th, 2021  |  23 mins 38 secs
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    Homily from the Second Sunday of Advent. Abounding love is focused love. Too often, we do not love well because we do not discern what is worth loving; we don't pay attention to the value of things.

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    11/28/21 Abounding Love: No Room

    November 29th, 2021  |  19 mins 56 secs
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    Homily from the First Sunday of Advent. Two things are clear about the inn at Bethlehem: Love Incarnate showed up and there was no room for Him. Too often, we want to love the way we have been created to love. But we find ourselves incapable of loving this way.

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    11/21/21 All Over the Place

    November 22nd, 2021  |  21 mins 2 secs
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    Homily from the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. When torn asunder, we are held together by worship of the King of Kings. The end of the year offers us the chance to recognize the little lords and tingy tyrants in our lives: those things we love and those things that attack us.

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    11/14/21 Always Forward. Never Back.

    November 15th, 2021  |  22 mins 24 secs
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    Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. The struggle doesn't change the destination. The struggle is the way.

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    11/07/21 Learning to Lose: Practice Dying

    November 8th, 2021  |  22 mins 43 secs
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    Homily from the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Death is unavoidable. We will all lose everything. We will all lose everything...even to the point of our very lives. Rather than avoid death ...

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    11/01/21 Your Feast Day

    November 1st, 2021  |  17 mins 28 secs
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    Homily from the Solemnity of All Saints. One day, this will be your feast day. The Solemnity of All Saints is the day the Church has given us to celebrate and honor what God has done in the lives of the countless people He has redeemed and sanctified. Mas

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    10/31/21 Learning to Lose: All is Lost

    November 1st, 2021  |  22 mins 43 secs
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    Homily from the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. When all is lost, love God with all that's left. We are called to love God with everything. It is easier to love when we are winning, but are we able to love when we've lost?

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    10/24/21 Learning to Lose: Get Up

    October 25th, 2021  |  22 mins 56 secs
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    Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Life is about losing. It is not about quitting. Into this place of defeat, God Himself speaks into our loss and our shame, telling us what is needed.

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    10/17/21 Learning to Lose: Winner or Witness?

    October 18th, 2021  |  21 mins 48 secs
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    Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Life isn't about power, it is about being poured out. The world sees life as being about winning. Life isn't about winning: it is about witnessing.

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    10/10/21 Holding On: Holding On to You

    October 11th, 2021  |  25 mins 18 secs
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    Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. What you've been holding on to ends up holding on to you. Anything can keep us from Heaven. Anything that we prefer over and over (and anything that we defer putting down over and over) can end up holding onto us.