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.
We found 10 episodes of Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz with the tag “advent”.
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11/27/22 Closer Than You Think: 29 Days
November 26th, 2022 | 24 mins 11 secs
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Homily from the 1st Sunday of Advent. You are made for more than a secondhand relationship with God. If we are willing to beg the Lord to reveal Himself to us...everything could be different in just 29 days.
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12/05/21 Abounding Love: What is Worth Your Heart?
December 6th, 2021 | 23 mins 38 secs
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Homily from the Second Sunday of Advent. Abounding love is focused love. Too often, we do not love well because we do not discern what is worth loving; we don't pay attention to the value of things.
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11/28/21 Abounding Love: No Room
November 29th, 2021 | 19 mins 56 secs
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Homily from the First Sunday of Advent. Two things are clear about the inn at Bethlehem: Love Incarnate showed up and there was no room for Him. Too often, we want to love the way we have been created to love. But we find ourselves incapable of loving this way.
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12/20/20 Silent Waiting
December 20th, 2020 | 20 mins 53 secs
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Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Advent. Silence magnifies and waiting purifies. The chance to wait in silence is often given by God to serve a purpose...above all to change our faith into something new.
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12/13/20 "I Am Not"
December 14th, 2020 | 23 mins 20 secs
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Homily from the Third Sunday of Advent. To pass ourselves off as someone else…to be an imposter. We do this most often when we know the truth but live in fear of the truth.
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12/06/20 Legacy
December 7th, 2020 | 24 mins 32 secs
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Homily from the Second Sunday of Advent. We can’t go back to the beginning of the story, but we can start where we are and change the ending.
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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.
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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.