Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz - Episodes Tagged with “Holy Spirit”

06/05/22 Given For Some Benefit

Ascension — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 08:00:00 -0500

Homily from Pentecost Sunday.

The greatest gift is to make yourself available.

The Holy Spirit, poured out on the apostles (and the entire Church) at Pentecost would have gone to waste without the most important reality: the disciples made themselves available to be used by God for the service of the people around them.

Mass Readings from June 5, 2022:
Acts 2:1-11
Psalms 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34
1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13

05/08/22 The Time of Great Distress

Ascension — Mon, 09 May 2022 18:00:00 -0500

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter.

You are not abandoned. You are not alone. You are not afraid.

Our lives are marked by stress. Not only is stress unavoidable, it is necessary. The main question is: what is our response to stress?

Mass Readings from May 8, 2022:
Acts 13:14, 43-52
Psalms 100:1-3, 5
Revelation 7:9, 14-17

05/30/21 Secret Identity

Ascension — Mon, 31 May 2021 21:00:00 -0500

Homily from the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.

What is God's deepest secret? What is yours?

What we are is shaped and revealed by what we choose. Who we are is established by relationships.

Mass Readings from May 30, 2021:
Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40
Psalms 33:4-6, 9, 18-19, 20, 22
Romans 8:14-17

05/23/21 Kingdom Gifts

Ascension — Sun, 23 May 2021 12:00:00 -0500

Homily from Pentecost Sunday.

Am I willing to use the gifts that God has already given?

At Pentecost, the disciples received the Holy Spirit and the subsequent gifts of the Holy Spirit. These gifts glorify the Father and have changed the world. If we were given these gifts, we could also glorify the Father and change the world…but would we?

Mass Readings from May 23, 2021:
Acts 2:1-11
Psalms 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34
1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13

05/16/21 You Will Be Martyrs

Ascension — Mon, 17 May 2021 14:00:00 -0500

Homily from the Mass of the Ascension of the Lord.

Nice is different than good.

Jesus doesn't call us to simply be "nice people." Jesus promises to send the Holy Spirit so that we can be more than we are now...so that we can do more than we can do now. Jesus sends His Holy Spirit so that we can have the strength to be the kind of people who can bear witness to Him and His love in this world. He gives His Spirit so that people can be saved and God can be glorified.

Mass Readings from May 16, 2021:
Acts 1:1-11
Psalms 47:2-3, 6-9
Ephesians 1:17-23

05/31/20 Exiles: The First Gift

Ascension — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 23:00:00 -0500

Homily from Pentecost Sunday.

For the love of God has been poured into our hearts.

Jesus sent the Holy Spirit so that we could receive the first gift of the Holy Spirit: to know what it is to be loved by the Father.

Mass Readings from May 31, 2020:
Acts 2:1-11
Psalms 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34
1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13

12/08/19 The Gift That Changes Everything

Ascension — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 08:00:00 -0600

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?

Mass Readings from December 8, 2019:
Isaiah 11:1-10
Psalms 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17
Romans 15:4-9

09/22/19 Are You Saved? From What: Hopelessness

Ascension — Sun, 22 Sep 2019 08:00:00 -0500

Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Jesus took from us what was ours so He could give to us what is His.

When we come face to face with our sin, we realize that we owe a debt we cannot pay. When we come face to face with Jesus, we realize that He paid a debt He did not owe. This is the free gift that saves us from hopelessness: we are saved by grace through faith working itself out in love.

Mass Readings from September 22, 2019:
Amos 8:4-7
Psalms 113:1-2, 4-8
1 Timothy 2:1-8

09/15/19 Are You Saved? From What: Fatherlessness

Ascension — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 08:00:00 -0500

Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Jesus saves us from being orphaned or abandoned.

I was saved at my Baptism. I am being saved. I hope to be saved. The Father has adopted us in Christ. And He cannot take it back. But do we live as children of the Father?

Mass Readings from September 15, 2019:
Exodus 32:7-11, 13-14
Psalms 51:3-4, 12-13, 17, 19
1 Timothy 1:12-17

06/09/19 The Peace of Christ

Ascension — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 08:00:00 -0500

Homily from Pentecost Sunday.

I know I have what I need.

The promised Holy Spirit gives many gifts, but few are more powerful and profound than the Spirit’s gift of peace.

Mass Readings from June 9, 2019:
Acts 13:14, 43-52
Psalms 100:1-2, 3, 51
Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13