Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

05/10/20 Insecure: Uncertain Plans

May 10th, 2020  |  29 mins 37 secs

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Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Easter. If we are wise, we will think about the future and plan for it. And if we are even wiser, we will be able to let go of those plans when we need to.

05/03/20 Insecure: Untroubled by the Unknown

May 4th, 2020  |  19 mins 42 secs

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Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter. n a world of insecurity, it is less important to know where one is being lead, and more important to know who is doing the leading.

03/29/20 Un-Done: Broken, Not Lost

March 29th, 2020  |  31 mins 3 secs

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Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Lent. Jesus is the God of the Broken Heart. Suffering, sickness, and death are devastating: but a broken heart is still home in Jesus’ Heart.

03/22/20 Un-Done: God Shows Up

March 22nd, 2020  |  25 mins 52 secs

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Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent. God made this world good, but He did not make it unbreakable. This world has come undone, and our sickness and suffering reveals the deeper ways our hearts have come undone.

01/26/20 Underestimated: Silence is Not Absence

January 26th, 2020  |  25 mins 57 secs

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Homily from the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Do not underestimate what God is doing when it seems like God is doing nothing.

10/13/19 The Hardest Step: The First Step

October 14th, 2019  |  19 mins 12 secs

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Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. You just have to start. The first step is the most difficult…but it is also the most important.

07/07/19 Declaration

July 8th, 2019  |  17 mins 15 secs

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Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. All of Christianity comes down to one question: does God have permission to love you? 

06/09/19 The Peace of Christ

June 10th, 2019  |  17 mins 2 secs

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Homily from Pentecost Sunday. The promised Holy Spirit gives many gifts, but few are more powerful and profound than the Spirit’s gift of peace.

04/28/19 #Fail: Free to Fail

April 29th, 2019  |  25 mins 59 secs

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Homily from Divine Mercy Sunday. Failure is the one necessary prerequisite for God’s greatest gift. Many people battle with perfectionism. God’s mercy in the midst of failure is His remedy for the fear that failure is the end.

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

April 1st, 2019  |  22 mins 24 secs

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