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.
Displaying all 8 Episode of Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz with the tag “choose”.
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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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08/22/21 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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05/02/21 Love Limits You
May 3rd, 2021 | 18 mins 17 secs
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Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Easter. Practice making the promise. We find ourselves always moving and never done. We have so many options that we experience decision paralysis and subsequent decision dissatisfaction. But we are made for a full life. A
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03/28/21 The Truth and the Choice
March 29th, 2021 | 16 mins 48 secs
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Homily from Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion. The fact that we will all die is not the problem. The problem is that we pretend that we won’t.
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03/14/21 To The Heart: Hidden Heart
March 15th, 2021 | 23 mins 35 secs
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Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent. A hidden heart is a homeless heart. Jesus has made it possible to step into the light and come home, but many choose to live outside the light...many of us live in self-imposed exile.
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11/08/20 Roadmap: Accident or Excellent
November 10th, 2020 | 24 mins 23 secs
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Homily from the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. If we want to escape a life of accidents and craft a life of excellence, we need to make the decision of “when” are we going to choose excellence carefully, consistently, and quickly.
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08/11/19 Living By Faith
August 12th, 2019 | 21 mins 7 secs
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Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. A disciple is a decision-maker. Faith is more than belief. It “acts”. It can be seen. Our decisions shape our lives, here on earth and in eternity.