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
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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06/13/21 Everyday Courage
June 14th, 2021 | 19 mins 55 secs
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Homily from the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. Everyday courage simply does what is necessary. Courage is not merely needed for the big moments of life, but is required for each moment of a life well-lived.
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06/06/21 The Crisis of Love
June 7th, 2021 | 18 mins 4 secs
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Homily from The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. Do we lack faith? Or do we lack love? Most people who call themselves Catholic do not believe one of the most central and most powerful teaching in the Church.
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05/30/21 Secret Identity
May 31st, 2021 | 16 mins 37 secs
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Homily from the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. What is God's deepest secret? What is yours? What we are is shaped and revealed by what we choose. Who we are is established by relationships.
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05/23/21 Kingdom Gifts
May 23rd, 2021 | 16 mins 43 secs
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Homily from Pentecost Sunday. At Pentecost, the disciples received the Holy Spirit and the subsequent gifts of the Holy Spirit. If we were given these gifts, we could also glorify the Father and change the world…but would we?
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05/16/21 You Will Be Martyrs
May 17th, 2021 | 17 mins 39 secs
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Homily from the Mass of the Ascension of the Lord. Jesus doesn't call us to simply be "nice people." Jesus promises to send the Holy Spirit so that we can be more than we are now...so that we can do more than we can do now.
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05/09/21 Spark Joy
May 10th, 2021 | 19 mins 14 secs
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Homily from the Sixth Sunday of Easter. Joy is rooted in confidence and comes as a consequence. We can choose joy only insofar as we can choose the source of our joy.