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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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08/09/20 Why Did You Stop?
August 9th, 2020 | 18 mins 25 secs
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Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. It is one thing to start walking. It is another thing to keep walking. Distraction is anything that takes our focus away from where it needs to be.
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08/02/20 All We Have
August 3rd, 2020 | 20 mins 21 secs
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Homily from the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. All of us have gifts in our lives and all of us have real struggles in our lives. What weight do we give our blessings and what weight do we give our struggles?
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07/05/20 Lead Yourself First
July 6th, 2020 | 19 mins 27 secs
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Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Freedom requires virtue. The Founding Fathers gave the world a republic that necessitated a people who were virtuous, moral, and religious.
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06/28/20 Something to Lose
June 28th, 2020 | 20 mins 33 secs
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Homily from the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. It is a gift to have something to lose. Every good thing in our lives comes from Jesus. Since He is the source of everything, He must be more important than anything.
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06/21/20 Fear No One
June 21st, 2020 | 21 mins 41 secs
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Homily from the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time. You matter to God and you have a job to do. Jesus tells us to "fear no one." Not because there is no danger, but because He is calling us to not be safe.
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06/14/20 No Longer Optional
June 14th, 2020 | 34 mins 41 secs
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Homily from the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ. The Eucharist will never be optional...until the day it is no longer an option. The moment worship becomes about “what I get” it ceases to be an act of love and becomes idolatry.
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06/07/20 In His Image and Likeness
June 7th, 2020 | 26 mins 3 secs
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Homily from the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. You do not have to know the details of a person’s life to know they are worth loving. Human worth is rooted in our deepest identity. And our deepest identity comes from being made in God’s image and likeness.