Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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.

08/22/21 Consumer Catholic: The Church of Me

August 23rd, 2021  |  19 mins 15 secs

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Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. The temptation to create a God in our own image and have a church in our own image is strong: "Everything I like and nothing that I don't."

08/15/21 Consumer Catholic: The Body

August 16th, 2021  |  13 mins 36 secs

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Homily from the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. You are your body. The Assumption of Mary reveals many things. One of the things it reveals is that our destiny is to be reunited with our resurrected bodies forever.

08/08/21 Consumer Catholic: Farther to Go

August 9th, 2021  |  18 mins 18 secs

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Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The best of your life is ahead of you...you will need food for the journey. The worst days of our life often come after the best days of our life. But even in those "worst days", you are not done yet.

08/01/21 Consumer Catholic: Choose God.

August 2nd, 2021  |  15 mins 9 secs

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Homily from the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Choose God over the works of God. The signs point to Jesus and Jesus is the point of the signs.

07/25/21 Consumer Catholic: Everything Given. Nothing Wasted.

July 26th, 2021  |  21 mins 29 secs

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Homily from the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Nothing given to God is wasted. The apostles asked the question, "What good are these for so many?" Yet, Jesus invited them to give what they had and to trust Him with all of it.

07/18/21 The Poison of Indifference

July 19th, 2021  |  15 mins 47 secs

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Homily from the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Indifference does not mean you don’t care; it just means you don’t care enough to move.

07/11/21 Chosen and Consecrated

July 12th, 2021  |  19 mins 49 secs

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Homily from the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. You are special. We’ve heard that for so much of our lives that we’ve either grown numb to it or no longer believe it. But what if it is true?

07/04/21 "Ruined"

July 5th, 2021  |  15 mins 31 secs

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Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The beauty is in the broken. Surrendered to God, our weakness is more than replaced and more than erased: they are redeemed.

06/27/21 Everyday Courage: Plan B

June 28th, 2021  |  22 mins 15 secs

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Homily from the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Love requires risk. Risk requires courage.

06/20/21 Everyday Courage: Into the Storm

June 21st, 2021  |  18 mins 29 secs

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Homily from the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time. There are times when we do everything God has asked us to do…and we still find ourselves in the midst of a storm. In those moments, we are called to run into the storm, confident that God is in the storm.