01/07/24 Worship is the Only Proper Response

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 6 January 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Epiphany of the Lord.

We give God our best, our heart, and what He has asked for.

As we know, the heart of religion is worship. But we need to put our hearts into worship. We give God our best, our heart, and what God has asked for. Not because He needs anything, but because it is right and just.

Mass Readings from January 7, 2024:
Isaiah 60:1-6
Psalms 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-13
Ephesians 3:2-3, 5-6

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sunday Homilies with me, Father Mike Schmitz. I hope today's homily inspires and motivates you, and I also hope that it leaves you hungry for the one who gave everything to feed you.
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0:28.0	God bless.
0:30.0	The Lord be with you.
0:32.0	A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew.
0:37.0	Chapter 2 verses 1 through 12.
0:39.0	When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod.
0:43.0	Behold Magi from the East arrived in Jerusalem saying,
0:46.0	where is the newborn king of the Jews?
0:48.0	We saw his star at its rising
0:50.0	and have come to do him homage.
0:52.0	When King Herod heard of this, he was greatly troubled in all Jerusalem with him.
0:57.2	Assembling all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born.
1:02.0	They said to him, in Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it has been written through the Prophet, and you Bethlehem, land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, since from you shall come a ruler who is to shepherd my people Israel.
1:15.0	Then Herod called the Magi secretly and ascertained from them the time of the Star's appearance.
1:20.0	He sent them to Bethlehem and said,
1:22.0	Go and search diligently for the child.
1:25.0	When you have found him, bring me word,
1:27.0	that I too may go into him homage.
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