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    <title>Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz - Episodes Tagged with “Divine Mercy”</title>
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    <description>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. 
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    <itunes:summary>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. 
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  <title>04/11/21 Scar Stories</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Homily from the Sunday of Divine Mercy. Virtually everyone has scars. And every scar has a story. Scars are reminders of our past...they are reminders that won’t go away. And Jesus has kept His wounds in order to help us to never forget His story.</itunes:subtitle>
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&lt;dt&gt; Mass Readings from April 11, 2021:&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Acts 4:32-35&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; 1 John 5:1-6&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;Colossians 3:1-4&lt;/dt&gt; &lt;p&gt;John 20:19-31&lt;/p&gt; 
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  <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 01:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Homily from Divine Mercy Sunday. In a time of incredible insecurity, we trust in incomprehensible mercy. We live in an insecure world, but God’s mercy is stable.</itunes:subtitle>
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&lt;dt&gt; Mass Readings from April 19, 2020:&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Acts 2:42-47&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Psalms 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;1 Peter 1:3-9&lt;/dt&gt; &lt;p&gt;John 20:19-31&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://bulldogcatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/insecure-the-source-of-security.pdf"&gt;Download the Homily Study&lt;/a&gt; 
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    <![CDATA[<p><p>Homily from Divine Mercy Sunday.</p> <p>In a time of incredible insecurity, we trust in incomprehensible mercy.</p> <p>We live in an insecure world, but God’s mercy is stable.</p><dl style="margin : 0; padding-top:0;"><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Mass Readings from April 19, 2020:</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Acts 2:42-47</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Psalms 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;">1 Peter 1:3-9</dt> <p margin: 0;>John 20:19-31</p> <p margin: 0;><a href="https://bulldogcatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/insecure-the-source-of-security.pdf">Download the Homily Study</a></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p><p>Homily from Divine Mercy Sunday.</p> <p>In a time of incredible insecurity, we trust in incomprehensible mercy.</p> <p>We live in an insecure world, but God’s mercy is stable.</p><dl style="margin : 0; padding-top:0;"><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Mass Readings from April 19, 2020:</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Acts 2:42-47</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Psalms 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;">1 Peter 1:3-9</dt> <p margin: 0;>John 20:19-31</p> <p margin: 0;><a href="https://bulldogcatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/insecure-the-source-of-security.pdf">Download the Homily Study</a></p>]]>
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  <title>04/28/19 #Fail: Free to Fail</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2019 08:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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&lt;dt&gt; Mass Readings from April 28, 2019:&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Acts 5:12-16&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Psalms 118:2-4, 13-15, 22&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;Revelation 1:9-11, 12-13, 17-19&lt;/dt&gt; &lt;p&gt;John 20:19-31&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://bulldogcatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/fail-free-to-fail.pdf"&gt;Download the Homily Study&lt;/a&gt; 
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    <![CDATA[<p><p>Homily from Divine Mercy Sunday.</p> <p>Failure is the one necessary prerequisite for God’s greatest gift.</p> <p>Many people battle with perfectionism. God’s mercy in the midst of failure is His remedy for the fear that failure is the end.</p><dl style="margin : 0; padding-top:0;"><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Mass Readings from April 28, 2019:</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Acts 5:12-16</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Psalms 118:2-4, 13-15, 22</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;">Revelation 1:9-11, 12-13, 17-19</dt> <p margin: 0;>John 20:19-31</p> <p margin: 0;><a href="https://bulldogcatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/fail-free-to-fail.pdf">Download the Homily Study</a></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p><p>Homily from Divine Mercy Sunday.</p> <p>Failure is the one necessary prerequisite for God’s greatest gift.</p> <p>Many people battle with perfectionism. God’s mercy in the midst of failure is His remedy for the fear that failure is the end.</p><dl style="margin : 0; padding-top:0;"><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Mass Readings from April 28, 2019:</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Acts 5:12-16</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Psalms 118:2-4, 13-15, 22</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;">Revelation 1:9-11, 12-13, 17-19</dt> <p margin: 0;>John 20:19-31</p> <p margin: 0;><a href="https://bulldogcatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/fail-free-to-fail.pdf">Download the Homily Study</a></p>]]>
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