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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02/23/20 Defiant Love
February 24th, 2020 | 25 mins 10 secs
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Homily from the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. The Universe is indifferent to us. People can be vicious to us. The Christian’s response is not indifference nor viciousness. The Christian response is to love in the face of indifference and evil.
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02/16/20 More Than A Criminal Heart
February 17th, 2020 | 28 mins 45 secs
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Homily from the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The Sermon on the Mount reveals the truth about our hearts: we need the Law. But God wants us to be free from the Law. Not by abolishing the Law, but by making our hearts like His.
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02/09/20 Good...For Nothing?
February 10th, 2020 | 21 mins 52 secs
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Homily from the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. God trusts us with being His representatives in this world. God has made us good for a purpose. Do we live in such a way that we have been made good for nothing?
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02/02/20 Underestimated: Unimpressive
February 2nd, 2020 | 20 mins 36 secs
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Homily from the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord. Most of life is made up of unimpressive moments and unimpressive seasons. If we are constantly waiting for the next “peak moment“ we will miss out on most of life…and also most peak moments.
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01/26/20 Underestimated: Silence is Not Absence
January 26th, 2020 | 25 mins 57 secs
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Homily from the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Do not underestimate what God is doing when it seems like God is doing nothing.
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01/19/20 Underestimated: Single Unifying Principle
January 20th, 2020 | 21 mins 25 secs
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Homily from the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. It is “too little” to remain who you are instead of becoming who God needs you to be.
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12/25/19 One Star
December 25th, 2019 | 20 mins 44 secs
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Homily from the Nativity of the Lord. God will always fulfill His promises. Is that enough?
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12/22/19 Available and Capable
December 22nd, 2019 | 24 mins 2 secs
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Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Advent. God does not need us. But He has demonstrated that He does not want to heal, transform, or save the world without our help.
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12/08/19 The Gift That Changes Everything
December 8th, 2019 | 26 mins 42 secs
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Homily from the Second Sunday of Advent. To be gripped by God is not supposed to be comfortable. The Prophet says that the great gift of the Spirit is the fear of the Lord. But what is it?
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12/01/19 Before Goodbye
December 1st, 2019 | 18 mins 12 secs
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Homily from the First Sunday of Advent. Goodbyes can be painful. The goodness of the goodbye comes down to what we do with the time before goodbye.
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11/24/19 A King Who Remembers
November 24th, 2019 | 25 mins 59 secs
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Homily from the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. It is easy to feel forgotten and forsaken…even by God. But God notices, loves, and remembers you.
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11/17/19 CompariSIN: Stealing Joy
November 18th, 2019 | 25 mins 24 secs
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Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. If comparison is a thief of joy, then we have to learn how to steal it back. Because there are some things worth celebrating.
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11/10/19 CompariSIN: Incomparable
November 10th, 2019 | 29 mins 13 secs
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Homily from the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. How can we become invincible to comparison?
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11/03/19 CompariSIN: Infinitely Preferred
November 4th, 2019 | 33 mins 16 secs
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Homily from the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. What makes them so great? What makes me so awful? When someone else being honored or loved more than we are meets our insecurity, we are tempted to tell stories…about them and about ourselves.
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10/27/19 CompariSIN: The Way of Comparison
October 27th, 2019 | 29 mins 50 secs
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Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. In a life of comparison, every person is a potential threat. Comparison is the desire to be “more” than another. At the heart of that desire is fear. Vulnerability breaks through that fear.
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10/20/19 The Hardest Step: The Next Step
October 21st, 2019 | 21 mins 39 secs
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Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Continuing to walk in the midst of failure, rejection, and imperfection is a sign of a great life. In your life, you will take hundreds of first steps. But in a great life, you will take thousands of next steps.