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 “purpose”.
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08/14/22 Finish the Race
August 15th, 2022 | 20 mins 5 secs
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Homily from the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Every one of us is in the middle of the race of our lives. God has called us and brought us here, even when there is no victory in sight and even when victory is not possible. But God will always give whatever we need to finish the race.
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01/09/22 Children of the Father
January 9th, 2022 | 12 mins 49 secs
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Homily from the Baptism of the Lord. Jesus changed the water. Now the water changes you. Why was Jesus baptized? Not because He needed it, but because we need it.
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01/02/22 It's Not About You
January 2nd, 2022 | 10 mins 9 secs
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Homily from the Epiphany of the Lord. Worship can help us escape the trap that life is about us.
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12/26/21 Be Careful
December 26th, 2021 | 16 mins 40 secs
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Homily from the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Family is the School of Love. Everyone is part of a family in some way. Be careful with each other.
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12/12/21 Abounding Love: Large Hearted
December 13th, 2021 | 21 mins 29 secs
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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.
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11/28/21 Abounding Love: No Room
November 29th, 2021 | 19 mins 56 secs
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Homily from the First Sunday of Advent. Two things are clear about the inn at Bethlehem: Love Incarnate showed up and there was no room for Him. Too often, we want to love the way we have been created to love. But we find ourselves incapable of loving this way.
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08/08/21 Consumer Catholic: Farther to Go
August 9th, 2021 | 18 mins 18 secs
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Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The best of your life is ahead of you...you will need food for the journey. The worst days of our life often come after the best days of our life. But even in those "worst days", you are not done yet.
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05/23/21 Kingdom Gifts
May 23rd, 2021 | 16 mins 43 secs
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Homily from Pentecost Sunday. At Pentecost, the disciples received the Holy Spirit and the subsequent gifts of the Holy Spirit. If we were given these gifts, we could also glorify the Father and change the world…but would we?
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10/18/20 Roadmap: Be A Saint
October 19th, 2020 | 24 mins 43 secs
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Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The roadmap begins with “Who”. There is one true goal in life: to be a saint. Many of us believe this, but is there a path?
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08/30/20 How Do I Look? "Lucky"
August 31st, 2020 | 21 mins 13 secs
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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.