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    <title>Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz - Episodes Tagged with “Necessary”</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:subtitle>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.</itunes:subtitle>
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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>05/15/22 Do Not Be Shocked</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Easter. The best you on the worst day of your life. There are a few things that we ought to never be surprised by. One of them is suffering. God does not abandon us in our suffering, he leads us through them.</itunes:subtitle>
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&lt;dt&gt; Mass Readings from May 15, 2022:&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Acts 14:21-27&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Psalms 145:8-13&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;Revelation 21:1-5&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;John 13:31-35&lt;/dt&gt; 
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  <title>12/12/21 Abounding Love: Large Hearted</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Homily from the Third Sunday of Advent. What we are called to do, we put the least amount of our heart into it. But to be magnanimous, we do even the minimum excellently. Abounding love is focused love.</itunes:subtitle>
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&lt;dt&gt; Mass Readings from December 12, 2021:&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Zephaniah 3:14-18&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Isaiah 12:2-6&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;Philippians 4:4-7&lt;/dt&gt; &lt;p&gt;Luke 3:10-18&lt;/p&gt;

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    <![CDATA[<p>Homily from the Third Sunday of Advent.</p> <p>Be Where Your Feet Are.</p> <p>Too often, what keeps our heart small is the fact that we do the minimum minimally. What we are called to do, we put the least amount of our heart into it. But to be magnanimous, we do even the minimum excellently. Which is often nothing more than simply doing one thing at a time. Abounding love is focused love.</p><dl style="margin : 0; padding-top:0;"><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Mass Readings from December 12, 2021:</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Zephaniah 3:14-18</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Isaiah 12:2-6</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;">Philippians 4:4-7</dt> <p margin: 0;>Luke 3:10-18</p>]]>
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  <title>11/14/21 Always Forward. Never Back.</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2021 18:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. The struggle doesn't change the destination. The struggle is the way.</itunes:subtitle>
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&lt;dt&gt; Mass Readings from November 14th, 2021:&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Deuteronomy 12:1-3&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Psalms 16:5, 8-11&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;Hebrews 10:11-14, 18&lt;/dt&gt; &lt;p&gt;Mark 13:24-32&lt;/p&gt;
 
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    <![CDATA[<p>Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time.</p> <p>The struggle doesn't change the destination. The struggle is the way.</p> <p>When we are in the middle of a journey...or the middle of life...we will encounter obstacles. In that encounter with obstacles, we will be tempted to go back. But it is necessary to ask “what is God asking of me right now?”</p><dl style="margin : 0; padding-top:0;"><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Mass Readings from November 14th, 2021:</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Deuteronomy 12:1-3</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Psalms 16:5, 8-11</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;">Hebrews 10:11-14, 18</dt> <p margin: 0;>Mark 13:24-32</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time.</p> <p>The struggle doesn't change the destination. The struggle is the way.</p> <p>When we are in the middle of a journey...or the middle of life...we will encounter obstacles. In that encounter with obstacles, we will be tempted to go back. But it is necessary to ask “what is God asking of me right now?”</p><dl style="margin : 0; padding-top:0;"><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Mass Readings from November 14th, 2021:</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Deuteronomy 12:1-3</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Psalms 16:5, 8-11</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;">Hebrews 10:11-14, 18</dt> <p margin: 0;>Mark 13:24-32</p>]]>
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  <title>08/30/20 How Do I Look? "Lucky"</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Am I being conformed or transformed? Christians must not only live differently in the world, we must look differently at the world.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>21:13</itunes:duration>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Am I being conformed or transformed?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Christians must not only live differently in the world, we must look differently at the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;dl&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Mass Readings from August 30, 2020:&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Jeremiah 20:7-9&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Psalms 63:2-6, 8-9&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;Romans 12:1-2&lt;/dt&gt; &lt;p&gt;Matthew 16:21-27&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://bulldogcatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/how-do-i-look-lucky.pdf"&gt;Download the Homily Study&lt;/a&gt; 
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    <![CDATA[<p><p>Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.</p> <p>Am I being conformed or transformed?</p> <p>Christians must not only live differently in the world, we must look differently at the world.</p><dl style="margin : 0; padding-top:0;"><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Mass Readings from August 30, 2020:</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Jeremiah 20:7-9</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Psalms 63:2-6, 8-9</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;">Romans 12:1-2</dt> <p margin: 0;>Matthew 16:21-27</p> <p margin: 0;><a href="https://bulldogcatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/how-do-i-look-lucky.pdf">Download the Homily Study</a></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p><p>Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.</p> <p>Am I being conformed or transformed?</p> <p>Christians must not only live differently in the world, we must look differently at the world.</p><dl style="margin : 0; padding-top:0;"><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Mass Readings from August 30, 2020:</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Jeremiah 20:7-9</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Psalms 63:2-6, 8-9</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;">Romans 12:1-2</dt> <p margin: 0;>Matthew 16:21-27</p> <p margin: 0;><a href="https://bulldogcatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/how-do-i-look-lucky.pdf">Download the Homily Study</a></p>]]>
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