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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

01/02/22 It's Not About You

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

Ascension

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🗓️ 2 January 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Epiphany of the Lord.

Worship can help us escape the trap that life is about us.

When life is about us, it is not food for the human heart. When we realize that life is about Someone other than us, we are allowed to have a heart that is larger…a heart that is large enough to give.

Mass Readings from January 2, 2022:
Isaiah 60:1-6
Psalms 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-13
Ephesians 3:2-3, 5-6

Matthew 2:1-12

Transcript

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0:00.0

So one thing I noticed growing up, see, there's these things that you lose as time goes on,

0:07.1

like, I think modern people will never know the joy.

0:12.0

I don't know if it's a joy.

0:13.3

Here's what happened.

0:14.3

When you're a kid, you notice that all the commercials, everything, it's a gole about

0:19.3

you.

0:20.3

I don't know if you noticed this, like everything you're advertised to as a kid, especially

0:23.0

like if you watch cartoons since Saturday morning, like all the cartoons, all the commercials

0:26.2

are for the kids who are watching the cartoons, makes sense, complete sense.

0:29.8

But there's like a time in your life, or at least there was a time in your life when

0:32.9

you would recognize that, or as you keep growing, commercials are getting less and less about

0:37.1

you.

0:38.1

Like they're less and less focused on you.

0:39.1

I don't know if you've ever noticed this because things change now, right?

0:41.5

Now there's the algorithm that's listening to everything you talk about.

0:43.7

And you mentioned cat food yesterday and all of a sudden there's advertisements for cat

0:46.4

food.

0:47.4

So, but what used to be the case was that you would, again, everything is about you.

0:53.2

And then as you grew, people were like, oh, we don't need to market to them anymore.

0:56.0

We need to market to the new kids.

0:58.3

And you got to break, a little bit of a break.

1:00.1

I mean, still there's some commercials that are aimed.

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