Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

08/28/22 Eulogy Virtues: Pay Attention

August 29th, 2022  |  19 mins 43 secs

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Homily fro the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less. The Book of Sirach makes the claim that the humble person is loved more than a giver of gifts. But what does it mean to be humble? Does it mean what most of us automatically think of? Or does it mean something deeper...something freer?

07/24/22 Teach Us How

July 25th, 2022  |  22 mins 55 secs

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Homily from the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The disciples did not merely want Jesus to help them have a "better spiritual life" or a deeper prayer life; they wanted to pray how He prayed. And Jesus taught them. He taught them that Who we pray to determines how we pray.

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.

12/13/20 "I Am Not"

December 14th, 2020  |  23 mins 20 secs

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Homily from the Third Sunday of Advent. To pass ourselves off as someone else…to be an imposter. We do this most often when we know the truth but live in fear of the truth.

12/08/19 The Gift That Changes Everything

December 8th, 2019  |  26 mins 42 secs

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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?

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.

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.

09/01/19 Oh, Vanity

September 1st, 2019  |  22 mins 27 secs

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Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. It is easy to think of vanity as nothing more than being conceited or overly concerned about one’s appearance. But the vice of vanity comes at a cost: A person could even find themselves living someone else’s life.

03/31/19 Behind Enemy Lines: Let Go...and Come Inside

April 1st, 2019  |  22 mins 24 secs

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