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    <title>Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz - Episodes Tagged with “Respond”</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: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>07/11/21 Chosen and Consecrated</title>
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&lt;dt&gt; Mass Readings from July 11, 2021:&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Amos 7:12-15&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Psalms 85:9-14&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;Ephesians 1:3-14&lt;/dt&gt; &lt;p&gt;Mark 6:7-13&lt;/p&gt;
 
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    <![CDATA[<p>Homily from the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.</p> <p>You are wanted and set apart.</p> <p>You are special. We’ve heard that for so much of our lives that we’ve either grown numb to it or no longer believe it. But what if it is true?</p><dl style="margin : 0; padding-top:0;"><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Mass Readings from July 11, 2021:</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Amos 7:12-15</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Psalms 85:9-14</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;">Ephesians 1:3-14</dt> <p margin: 0;>Mark 6:7-13</p>]]>
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  <title>06/07/20 In His Image and Likeness</title>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2020 23:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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&lt;dt&gt; Mass Readings from June 7, 2020:&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Exodus 34:4-6, 8-9&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Daniel 3:52-56&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;2 Corinthians 13:11-13&lt;/dt&gt; &lt;p&gt;John 3:16-18&lt;/p&gt; 
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    <![CDATA[<p>Homily from the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.</p> <p>You do not have to know the details of a person’s life to know they are worth loving.</p> <p>Human worth is rooted in our deepest identity. And our deepest identity comes from being made in God’s image and likeness. And God’s deepest identity is love.</p><dl style="margin : 0; padding-top:0;"><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Mass Readings from June 7, 2020:</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Exodus 34:4-6, 8-9</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Daniel 3:52-56</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;">2 Corinthians 13:11-13</dt> <p margin: 0;>John 3:16-18</p>]]>
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