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 “suffering”.
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09/05/21 Seen. Known. Loved.
September 6th, 2021 | 18 mins 14 secs
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Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Transition always involves destruction. Jesus heals the man who was deaf and mute. In doing this, He has to take away the false identity in order to tell us who we truly are.
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07/04/21 "Ruined"
July 5th, 2021 | 15 mins 31 secs
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Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The beauty is in the broken. Surrendered to God, our weakness is more than replaced and more than erased: they are redeemed.
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06/20/21 Everyday Courage: Into the Storm
June 21st, 2021 | 18 mins 29 secs
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Homily from the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time. There are times when we do everything God has asked us to do…and we still find ourselves in the midst of a storm. In those moments, we are called to run into the storm, confident that God is in the storm.
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05/09/21 Spark Joy
May 10th, 2021 | 19 mins 14 secs
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Homily from the Sixth Sunday of Easter. Joy is rooted in confidence and comes as a consequence. We can choose joy only insofar as we can choose the source of our joy.
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02/28/21 To The Heart: The Adventure of Obedience
March 1st, 2021 | 21 mins 1 sec
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Homily from the Second Sunday of Lent. Often, what holds us back from action is a lack of knowing why. But what if there is a better question than “why?”? What if the adventure of obedience means asking “how?”?
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02/07/21 Hindsight 20/20: In Good Times and In Bad
February 8th, 2021 | 19 mins 18 secs
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Homily from the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. In both good times and bad, Jesus is Lord and He loves the person in a desperate situation and the person in a bright situation.
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11/29/20 Be Here
November 30th, 2020 | 24 mins 8 secs
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Homily from the First Sunday of Advent. We need to learn to trust that God is not just going to help us get through this moment, but that He has brought us to this moment.
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10/11/20 No Difference
October 12th, 2020 | 26 mins 24 secs
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Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. There are many goods. There is only one best.
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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.
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08/16/20 Great Faith
August 17th, 2020 | 22 mins 17 secs
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Homily from the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Faith can only become great when it is tested. What kind of faith do you want? Faith that makes a difference because it is lived out is the only kind of faith that matters.