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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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  <title>08/14/22 Finish the Race</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>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.</itunes:subtitle>
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&lt;dt&gt; Mass Readings from August 14, 2022:&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Psalms 40:2-4, 18&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;Hebrews 12:1-4&lt;/dt&gt; &lt;p&gt;Luke 12:49-53&lt;/p&gt;

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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>05/08/22 The Time of Great Distress</title>
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&lt;dt&gt; Mass Readings from May 8, 2022:&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Acts 13:14, 43-52&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt; Psalms 100:1-3, 5&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dt&gt;Revelation 7:9, 14-17&lt;/dt&gt; &lt;p&gt;John 10:27-30&lt;/p&gt;

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    <![CDATA[<p>Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter.</p> <p>You are not abandoned. You are not alone. You are not afraid.</p> <p>Our lives are marked by stress. Not only is stress unavoidable, it is necessary. The main question is: what is our response to stress?</p><dl style="margin : 0; padding-top:0;"><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Mass Readings from May 8, 2022:</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Acts 13:14, 43-52</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;"> Psalms 100:1-3, 5</dt><dt style="font-weight:normal;">Revelation 7:9, 14-17</dt> <p margin: 0;>John 10:27-30</p>]]>
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