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 5 episodes of Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz with the tag “defeat”.
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10/24/21 Learning to Lose: Get Up
October 25th, 2021 | 22 mins 56 secs
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Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Life is about losing. It is not about quitting. Into this place of defeat, God Himself speaks into our loss and our shame, telling us what is needed.
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10/17/21 Learning to Lose: Winner or Witness?
October 18th, 2021 | 21 mins 48 secs
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Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Life isn't about power, it is about being poured out. The world sees life as being about winning. Life isn't about winning: it is about witnessing.
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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.