Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

1/15/23 Homeless: Homeless But Holy

January 14th, 2023  |  19 mins 34 secs

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Homily from the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. What is the difference between a "good person" and a "saint"? "A good society is one that makes it easy to be good." But what if you don't live in a good society? Is "being good" the only goal? Is it possible to be more than good...to be holy...even when you are living in exile?

1/8/23 Here to Give

January 7th, 2023  |  17 mins 1 sec

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Homily from the Mass of the Epiphany of the Lord. The best thing we can do. While we are certainly human "beings", we are also meant to "do". The most important thing we can do is LOVE. And the most important One we can love is God. We love God in a number of ways, the principle of which is through worship.

1/1/23 Hold, Reflect, and Remember

December 31st, 2022  |  19 mins 46 secs

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Homily from the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God. Mary, the Mother of God is the model for how to live well. Mary is the Mother of God because the baby in her womb was the Second Person of the Trinity. She also shows us how to leave last year in the past and step into the New Year wisely.

12/25/22 Closer Than You Think: Small Enough to Ignore

December 24th, 2022  |  21 mins 4 secs

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Homily from the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas Mass). At Christmas, in our lives, and in the Mass...God becomes small enough to ignore. God is closer than we think. But the ways that He draws close to us is that He comes so close that we can miss Him and He becomes so small that we can ignore Him.

12/18/22 Closer Than You Think: When He Reveals Himself

December 17th, 2022  |  15 mins 32 secs

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Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Advent. What is our response when God does reveal Himself? Mary is the Mother of God because the baby in her womb was the Second Person of the Trinity. She also shows us how to leave last year in the past and step into the New Year wisely.

12/11/22 Closer Than You Think: Be Patient

December 10th, 2022  |  24 mins 52 secs

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Homily from the Third Sunday of Advent. Be patient with the Lord, the process, and yourself. We often find it difficult to wait for things to come to us. During this season of Advent, we can also struggle with the feeling that "nothing is happening". During this time, we need to be reminded that God is closer than we think; He is in each moment and in each step...and remember to be patient.

12/8/22 Immaculate Conception: Receptivity

December 8th, 2022  |  13 mins 50 secs

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Homily from the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. God always gives what we need to accomplish His will. Mary was preserved from all stain of original sin at the moment of her conception by the merits of her Son's future life, death, and resurrection.

12/4/22 Closer Than You Think: One Step

December 3rd, 2022  |  25 mins 34 secs

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Homily from the Second Sunday of Advent. So often, there are things that we would like to do "one day". Sometimes those dreams pass us by and we lose nothing. But other times, we must take action otherwise "one day" becomes "never". As Christians, we either Begin or we Begin Again.

11/27/22 Closer Than You Think: 29 Days

November 26th, 2022  |  24 mins 11 secs

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Homily from the 1st Sunday of Advent. You are made for more than a secondhand relationship with God. If we are willing to beg the Lord to reveal Himself to us...everything could be different in just 29 days.

11/20/22 A God You Cannot Control

November 19th, 2022  |  22 mins 48 secs

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Homily from the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.

11/13/22 Something Other Than God

November 12th, 2022  |  27 mins 45 secs

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The ending of a story reveals what kind of story it is. Regardless of how we start and how we proceed, we can choose to have a tragic story...or we can choose to have a love story. The determining factor is not the amount of sorrow or loss in our lives, but whether we choose God...or choose something other than God.

11/6/22 Carry the Fire

November 5th, 2022  |  24 mins 5 secs

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Homily from the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.

The things one needs to die well are the same things one needs to live well.

As we walk through life, we will all walk into darkness and sufferng and pain. We can still walk in hope, courage, and perseverance. We can be the kind of people who can carry the fire into the darkness.

Mass Readings from November 5, 2022:

2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14

Psalms 17:1, 5-6, 8, 15

2 Thessalonians 2:16-3:5

Luke 20:27-38

11/01/22 All Saints

November 1st, 2022  |  21 mins 58 secs

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Homily from the Solemnity of All Saints. Live so that this day will one day be your feast day. The Feast of All Saints is the day when all of those who are in Heaven are remembered and we ask them to intercede for us. They are the great "cloud of witnesses" that surrounds us and cheers us on.

10/30/22 Alteration or Transformation?

October 29th, 2022  |  22 mins 11 secs

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Homily from the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.

10/23/22 Growing Through the Motions: Busy or Productive?

October 22nd, 2022  |  20 mins 33 secs

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Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Nothing is so worthless as working on the wrong things. Are we doing things right or are we doing the right things? When it comes to growing through the motions, we need to make sure that the right thing we do is present ourselves before God with humility and not self-reliance.

10/16/22 Growing Through the Motions: Full Range of Motion

October 15th, 2022  |  24 mins 48 secs

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Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The only way to be able to pray in all seasons is to pray in all seasons.