Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
322 episodes of Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz since the first episode, which aired on October 8th, 2018.
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09/04/22 Eulogy Virtues: Loyalty
September 3rd, 2022 | 27 mins 6 secs
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Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Loyalty is a force that conquers time. A person of character does what they said they would do…despite changing feelings or circumstances. This is loyalty.
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08/28/22 Eulogy Virtues: Pay Attention
August 29th, 2022 | 19 mins 43 secs
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Homily fro the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less. The Book of Sirach makes the claim that the humble person is loved more than a giver of gifts. But what does it mean to be humble? Does it mean what most of us automatically think of? Or does it mean something deeper...something freer?
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08/21/22 You, Strive
August 22nd, 2022 | 19 mins 36 secs
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Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. How are you fighting for Heaven? Jesus makes it very clear that our call is to make our pursuit of Heaven exactly that: a pursuit.
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08/14/22 Finish the Race
August 15th, 2022 | 20 mins 5 secs
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Homily from the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Every one of us is in the middle of the race of our lives. God has called us and brought us here, even when there is no victory in sight and even when victory is not possible. But God will always give whatever we need to finish the race.
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08/07/22 Loosen the Roots
August 8th, 2022 | 23 mins 59 secs
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Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. We sacrifice because we love and we love because we sacrifice.
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07/31/22 Then What?
August 1st, 2022 | 27 mins 49 secs
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Time and Death make most of what we live for hevel.
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07/24/22 Teach Us How
July 25th, 2022 | 22 mins 55 secs
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Homily from the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The disciples did not merely want Jesus to help them have a "better spiritual life" or a deeper prayer life; they wanted to pray how He prayed. And Jesus taught them. He taught them that Who we pray to determines how we pray.
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07/17/22 The Question
July 18th, 2022 | 22 mins 14 secs
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Homily from the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Feeling anxious, worried, or sorry for yourself is normal. It is also completely unhelpful.
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07/10/22 Simple Things First
July 11th, 2022 | 23 mins 17 secs
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Homily from the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. There are so many things that we know that we ought to do. There are even things that we know that we want to do. And yet...we just can't seem to act on what we know. How do we start?
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07/03/22 Be A Saint
July 4th, 2022 | 21 mins 18 secs
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Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Many of us want to grow spiritually. But what does that really mean? What is it that we really want? What is the actual goal of life?
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06/26/22 The Call
June 27th, 2022 | 20 mins 42 secs
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Homily from the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. God continues to call. God calls us to follow Him, making it clear that being a disciple is challenging...that it costs something. Therefore, we need to weigh out our response, we need to avoid hesitation, and we need to choose to follow Jesus in such a way that it actually changes something in our lives.
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06/19/22 Corpus Christi
June 20th, 2022 | 21 mins 26 secs
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Homily from The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. In the Scriptures, God gives us His Word. In the Sacraments, God gives us His work. But in the Eucharist, God gives us Himself.
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06/12/22 We Need Each Other
June 13th, 2022 | 19 mins 10 secs
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Homily from The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. The Feast of the Most Holy Trinity reminds us of the innermost secret of God: He is Love. It also reveals the innermost secret of humans made in God's image and likeness: we are made for love.
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06/05/22 Given For Some Benefit
June 6th, 2022 | 18 mins 46 secs
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Homily from Pentecost Sunday. The greatest gift is to make yourself available. The Holy Spirit, poured out on the apostles (and the entire Church) at Pentecost would have gone to waste without the most important reality: the disciples made themselves available to be used by God for the service of the people around them.
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05/29/22 Ascension Gives Access
May 30th, 2022 | 19 mins 45 secs
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Homily from the Solemnity of the Ascension of our Lord. What am I going to do with the gifts I've been given? In the Ascension, Jesus completes the work of redemption. He has taken His once for all sacrifice, bound to time and place, and brought it before the Father. Because of this, we have access to all of God's graces in every time and every place.
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05/22/22 The Gift of the Church
May 23rd, 2022 | 19 mins 20 secs
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Homily from the Sixth Sunday of Easter. God has given us the gift of the Church. The Church is His Body...the Church is His Bride. And we cannot have Jesus without His Church.