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    <title>Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz - Episodes Tagged with “Sundays With Ascension”</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>Episode 123142: 1/4/26 Proximity or Intimacy</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Christ has come close.  And yet, we all still have a choice: will we remain indifferent to His presence or will we seek Him out?  If we choose indifference, we will not remain indifferent.  When it comes to God, we either give Him our hearts or we remove Him from our lives.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Homily from the The Epiphany of the Lord&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Indifference can turn into hostility.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Christ has come close.  And yet, we all still have a choice: will we remain indifferent to His presence or will we seek Him out?  If we choose indifference, we will not remain indifferent.  When it comes to God, we either give Him our hearts or we remove Him from our lives.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;dl&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Mass Readings from January 4, 2026:&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;Isaiah 60:1-6&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;Psalm 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;Ephesians 3:2-3a, 5-6&lt;/dt&gt; &lt;p&gt;Matthew 2:1-12&lt;/p&gt;

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  <title>Episode 123138: 12/21/25 Waiting Well: Unconditional Hope</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>All through the Bible, God makes certain promises.  He always fulfills them.  But we cannot expect God to fulfill a promise that He has never made.  No matter what, whether we get what we've waited for or not, we can hope in HIM.</itunes:subtitle>
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&lt;dt&gt; Mass Readings from December 21, 2025:&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;Isaiah 7:10-14&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Psalm 24:1-2, 3-4, 5-6&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;Romans 1:1-7&lt;/dt&gt; &lt;p&gt;Matthew 1:18-24&lt;/p&gt;

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