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 “why”.
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11/28/21 Abounding Love: No Room
November 29th, 2021 | 19 mins 56 secs
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Homily from the First Sunday of Advent. Two things are clear about the inn at Bethlehem: Love Incarnate showed up and there was no room for Him. Too often, we want to love the way we have been created to love. But we find ourselves incapable of loving this way.
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11/01/21 Your Feast Day
November 1st, 2021 | 17 mins 28 secs
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Homily from the Solemnity of All Saints. One day, this will be your feast day. The Solemnity of All Saints is the day the Church has given us to celebrate and honor what God has done in the lives of the countless people He has redeemed and sanctified. Mas
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07/25/21 Consumer Catholic: Everything Given. Nothing Wasted.
July 26th, 2021 | 21 mins 29 secs
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Homily from the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Nothing given to God is wasted. The apostles asked the question, "What good are these for so many?" Yet, Jesus invited them to give what they had and to trust Him with all of it.
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06/06/21 The Crisis of Love
June 7th, 2021 | 18 mins 4 secs
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Homily from The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. Do we lack faith? Or do we lack love? Most people who call themselves Catholic do not believe one of the most central and most powerful teaching in the Church.
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05/23/21 Kingdom Gifts
May 23rd, 2021 | 16 mins 43 secs
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Homily from Pentecost Sunday. At Pentecost, the disciples received the Holy Spirit and the subsequent gifts of the Holy Spirit. If we were given these gifts, we could also glorify the Father and change the world…but would we?
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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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12/25/20 Taken
December 25th, 2020 | 14 mins 53 secs
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Homily from the Mass of the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas). When you and I look at the image of the baby Jesus in the manger, how would we answer the question: why is He there?
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11/01/20 Roadmap: Guardrails
November 2nd, 2020 | 21 mins 42 secs
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Homily from the Solemnity of All Saints. While there are certain givens that must be present, each person has to assess where they are in their relationship with the Lord in order to know best where to place wise guardrails in their own life.
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10/25/20 Roadmap: Reclaimed and Repurposed
October 26th, 2020 | 23 mins 58 secs
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Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Holiness isn’t always changing your what as much as changing your why. Every moment can be repurposed to be a sacrament, and sacrifice, and an act of surrender.
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09/13/20 How Do I Look? The Cost of Forgiveness
September 14th, 2020 | 19 mins 22 secs
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Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. There is no forgiveness without justice. Forgiveness is neither excusing nor enabling evil. There is always a debt that needs to be paid…and somebody needs to pay it. Mass Readings from September 13,