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 “fear”.
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05/03/20 Insecure: Untroubled by the Unknown
May 4th, 2020 | 19 mins 42 secs
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Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter. n a world of insecurity, it is less important to know where one is being lead, and more important to know who is doing the leading.
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02/09/20 Good...For Nothing?
February 10th, 2020 | 21 mins 52 secs
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Homily from the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. God trusts us with being His representatives in this world. God has made us good for a purpose. Do we live in such a way that we have been made good for nothing?
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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.
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10/13/19 The Hardest Step: The First Step
October 14th, 2019 | 19 mins 12 secs
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Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. You just have to start. The first step is the most difficult…but it is also the most important.
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05/12/19 #Fail: Failure is Feedback
May 13th, 2019 | 18 mins 51 secs
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Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter. Failure either gives us clarity and conviction or course correction. Failure is not final and failure is not fatal.
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04/28/19 #Fail: Free to Fail
April 29th, 2019 | 25 mins 59 secs
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Homily from Divine Mercy Sunday. Failure is the one necessary prerequisite for God’s greatest gift. Many people battle with perfectionism. God’s mercy in the midst of failure is His remedy for the fear that failure is the end.
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10/21/18 Rivals: The Rival of Control
October 22nd, 2018 | 30 mins 13 secs
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Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time. What do I have to do to get what I want? The rival of control can dominate. And the trust of praise and surrender can liberate.
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10/14/18 Rivals: The Reason is the Rival
October 15th, 2018 | 27 mins 32 secs
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Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. God has an absolute claim on your heart. What is the reason you won't give it to Him?