Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

10/10/21 Holding On: Holding On to You

October 11th, 2021  |  25 mins 18 secs

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Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. What you've been holding on to ends up holding on to you. Anything can keep us from Heaven. Anything that we prefer over and over (and anything that we defer putting down over and over) can end up holding onto us.

11/10/19 CompariSIN: Incomparable

November 10th, 2019  |  29 mins 13 secs

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Homily from the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. How can we become invincible to comparison?

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.

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

April 1st, 2019  |  22 mins 24 secs

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