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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10/9/22 Growing Through the Motions: Start With Why
October 8th, 2022 | 24 mins 32 secs
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Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. We can know exactly what to do and how to do it. So much of our lives can be spent doing more and more, but never knowing exactly why. But if the reason behind our actions is Jesus, then we can truly be free to love every time we say "yes" to our Who.
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10/2/22 Growing Through the Motions: Passion or Duty?
October 1st, 2022 | 23 mins 43 secs
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Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. So much of life is doing our duty. Doing what we are supposed to do. And yet, there are times when this means that we only “go through the motions”. There is a chance for us to do more however…we can choose to grow.
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09/25/22 Comfort Breeds Complacency
September 24th, 2022 | 28 mins 32 secs
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Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Complacency is being satisfied with how things are and not being willing to change them.
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09/18/22 Eulogy Virtues: Integrity
September 17th, 2022 | 22 mins 37 secs
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Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. We are nothing without the virtue of integrity. As one pastor noted, "If you have integrity, nothing else matters. And if you don't have integrity, nothing else matters." Integrity is the bridge between our desires and our decisions. Without integrity, our lives remain mere piles without purpose.
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09/11/22 Eulogy Virtues: Joy
September 10th, 2022 | 27 mins 32 secs
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Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Joy is the abiding sense of well-being. It is a feeling, but it is also a choice. But we do not choose joy itself. We must choose the source of joy.
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09/04/22 Eulogy Virtues: Loyalty
September 3rd, 2022 | 27 mins 6 secs
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Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Loyalty is a force that conquers time. A person of character does what they said they would do…despite changing feelings or circumstances. This is loyalty.
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08/28/22 Eulogy Virtues: Pay Attention
August 29th, 2022 | 19 mins 43 secs
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Homily fro the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less. The Book of Sirach makes the claim that the humble person is loved more than a giver of gifts. But what does it mean to be humble? Does it mean what most of us automatically think of? Or does it mean something deeper...something freer?
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08/21/22 You, Strive
August 22nd, 2022 | 19 mins 36 secs
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Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. How are you fighting for Heaven? Jesus makes it very clear that our call is to make our pursuit of Heaven exactly that: a pursuit.
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08/14/22 Finish the Race
August 15th, 2022 | 20 mins 5 secs
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Homily from the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Every one of us is in the middle of the race of our lives. God has called us and brought us here, even when there is no victory in sight and even when victory is not possible. But God will always give whatever we need to finish the race.
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08/07/22 Loosen the Roots
August 8th, 2022 | 23 mins 59 secs
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Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. We sacrifice because we love and we love because we sacrifice.
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07/31/22 Then What?
August 1st, 2022 | 27 mins 49 secs
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Time and Death make most of what we live for hevel.
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07/24/22 Teach Us How
July 25th, 2022 | 22 mins 55 secs
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Homily from the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The disciples did not merely want Jesus to help them have a "better spiritual life" or a deeper prayer life; they wanted to pray how He prayed. And Jesus taught them. He taught them that Who we pray to determines how we pray.
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07/17/22 The Question
July 18th, 2022 | 22 mins 14 secs
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Homily from the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Feeling anxious, worried, or sorry for yourself is normal. It is also completely unhelpful.
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07/10/22 Simple Things First
July 11th, 2022 | 23 mins 17 secs
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Homily from the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. There are so many things that we know that we ought to do. There are even things that we know that we want to do. And yet...we just can't seem to act on what we know. How do we start?
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07/03/22 Be A Saint
July 4th, 2022 | 21 mins 18 secs
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Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Many of us want to grow spiritually. But what does that really mean? What is it that we really want? What is the actual goal of life?
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06/26/22 The Call
June 27th, 2022 | 20 mins 42 secs
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Homily from the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. God continues to call. God calls us to follow Him, making it clear that being a disciple is challenging...that it costs something. Therefore, we need to weigh out our response, we need to avoid hesitation, and we need to choose to follow Jesus in such a way that it actually changes something in our lives.