Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

10/03/21 Holding On: The Power of a Promise

October 4th, 2021  |  27 mins 34 secs

Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. "Because I said I would." We are not yet who we are called to be. Sometimes, in order to become the person we are called to be, we need to stop holding on to what is holding us back.

09/26/21 Holding On: Patient and Ruthless

September 27th, 2021  |  23 mins 8 secs

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Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. What if the biggest obstacle to being the person you were created to be is the person you are currently choosing to be?

09/19/21 Desperate

September 20th, 2021  |  21 mins 7 secs

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Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Edit, Convince, and Worry. Or Honesty, Trust, and Thanking God ahead of time.

09/12/21 Not Mine

September 13th, 2021  |  18 mins 29 secs

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Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Faith must be lived, not merely believed. It is wise to take responsibility for one’s own time, resources, and family. And yet, we must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

09/05/21 Seen. Known. Loved.

September 6th, 2021  |  18 mins 14 secs

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Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Transition always involves destruction. Jesus heals the man who was deaf and mute. In doing this, He has to take away the false identity in order to tell us who we truly are.

08/29/21 Living in Later?

August 30th, 2021  |  18 mins 19 secs

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Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Am I doing “everything but”? Often we avoid doing what is essential by filling our lives with many things that are optional.