Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

Homilies preached by Fr. Mike Schmitz, Chaplain for the University of Minnesota-Duluth Newman Catholic Campus Ministry and host of The Bible in a Year.

About the show

Every week, Catholic priest Fr. Mike Schmitz delivers powerful homilies based on the Sunday Mass Scripture readings, inviting you to live more fully as the person God created you to be. Engaging and motivating, these 20-30 minute homilies will help ground your faith, fortify your heart, and transform your life. Fr. Mike Schmitz preaches from Duluth Minnesota, where he serves as the Newman chaplain for University Minnesota Duluth’s Bulldog Catholic campus ministry.

Episodes

  • 11/29/20 Be Here

    November 30th, 2020  |  24 mins 8 secs
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    Homily from the First Sunday of Advent. We need to learn to trust that God is not just going to help us get through this moment, but that He has brought us to this moment.

  • 11/22/20 Roadmap: Expect Delays

    November 23rd, 2020  |  25 mins 6 secs
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    Homily from the Solemnity of Christ the King. We have a Roadmap and a Rule of Life. What remains is one last question: Is there any room in your Rule for the Ruler?

  • 11/15/20 Roadmap: Checkpoints

    November 16th, 2020  |  25 mins 22 secs
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    Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. No one wants to lose, but many people do. Even with a great roadmap, we need regular checkpoints to make sure we are on course and haven’t gone off track.

  • 11/08/20 Roadmap: Accident or Excellent

    November 10th, 2020  |  24 mins 23 secs
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    Homily from the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. If we want to escape a life of accidents and craft a life of excellence, we need to make the decision of “when” are we going to choose excellence carefully, consistently, and quickly.

  • 11/01/20 Roadmap: Guardrails

    November 2nd, 2020  |  21 mins 42 secs
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    Homily from the Solemnity of All Saints. While there are certain givens that must be present, each person has to assess where they are in their relationship with the Lord in order to know best where to place wise guardrails in their own life.

  • 10/25/20 Roadmap: Reclaimed and Repurposed

    October 26th, 2020  |  23 mins 58 secs
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    Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Holiness isn’t always changing your what as much as changing your why. Every moment can be repurposed to be a sacrament, and sacrifice, and an act of surrender.

  • 10/18/20 Roadmap: Be A Saint

    October 19th, 2020  |  24 mins 43 secs
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    Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The roadmap begins with “Who”. There is one true goal in life: to be a saint. Many of us believe this, but is there a path?

  • 10/11/20 No Difference

    October 12th, 2020  |  26 mins 24 secs
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    Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. There are many goods. There is only one best.

  • 10/04/20 It's Not Your Vineyard

    October 5th, 2020  |  25 mins 20 secs
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    Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. God has made you for freedom from anxiety over the unforeseeable future, the unchangeable past, and your present responsibilities.

  • 09/27/20 How Do I Look? Change Your Mind

    September 28th, 2020  |  22 mins 45 secs
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    Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. As the gardeners of our own minds, we must think about what we think about, weed out the thoughts that poison our minds, and allow the Word of God to shape how we look.

  • 09/20/20 How Do I Look? Highlighter

    September 21st, 2020  |  18 mins 46 secs
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    Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. It doesn’t matter how long you live. What matters is how you live.

  • 09/13/20 How Do I Look? The Cost of Forgiveness

    September 14th, 2020  |  19 mins 22 secs
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    Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. There is no forgiveness without justice. Forgiveness is neither excusing nor enabling evil. There is always a debt that needs to be paid…and somebody needs to pay it. Mass Readings from September 13,

  • 09/06/20 How Do I Look? Fighting For

    September 6th, 2020  |  23 mins 45 secs
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    Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. How do Christians fight? We all have experienced the temptation to see someone who has failed or someone who has hurt us as a non-person. But taking responsibility for the people in our lives means fighting that temptation.

  • 08/30/20 How Do I Look? "Lucky"

    August 31st, 2020  |  21 mins 13 secs
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    Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Am I being conformed or transformed? Christians must not only live differently in the world, we must look differently at the world.

  • 08/23/20 Influencer

    August 24th, 2020  |  28 mins 18 secs
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    Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. We can often confuse influence with importance; authority with power. Even when the world does not listen to the voice of the Church, She still has the influence and authority of Jesus.

  • 08/16/20 Great Faith

    August 17th, 2020  |  22 mins 17 secs
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    Homily from the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Faith can only become great when it is tested. What kind of faith do you want? Faith that makes a difference because it is lived out is the only kind of faith that matters.