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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

01/10/21 You Are My Son

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

Ascension

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🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Baptism of the Lord.

At the Incarnation, God joined His divinity to humanity...at the Baptism of Jesus, God identifies with our brokenness.

What difference does the Baptism of Jesus make? It means that God doesn't stay away from our sins, but that He takes them upon Himself.

Mass Readings from January 10, 2021:
Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7
Psalms 29:1-4, 9-10
Acts 10:34-38

Mark 1:7-11

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So, I've just been really captivated by all my entire life with all the underdog stories,

0:07.8

like the underdog movies, underdog songs.

0:09.7

Like all the songs that are like, basically I went, I'm going to be somebody someday,

0:14.3

you know those movies were like at the end of it, like Rocky, they're all like, Rocky,

0:17.4

Rocky or like at the end of Rudy, with all like, Rudy, Rudy or the end of like Mulan

0:21.4

or like Mulan, just kidding, they don't do that in Mulan.

0:25.2

But like that kind of that movie where it's like everyone sees what you've done, you've

0:30.3

not just accomplished something, but you've done something else because a lot of times

0:33.5

that the underdog story, right, or like the rags to riches story is you want success

0:37.4

or the person's looking for some kind of like, they're looking for the win or they're

0:41.2

looking for something and almost every time they're looking for the same ultimate thing.

0:45.2

And that same ultimate thing is, I want to make them proud of me.

0:50.5

And I think that's not bad, right?

0:51.8

Like that sense of like, I'm going for this thing.

0:54.3

I want to get out of this crummy town and you know knock the do not dirt off my feet

0:57.4

because I want to make them proud of me.

0:59.5

And people can do some really incredible things with that as being the goal.

1:02.2

And it's not a bad thing, right?

1:03.2

I mean, there are some incredible, incredible lives that have been lived with that motivation,

1:07.7

like to live the kind of life that I can be proud of, to live the line of what kind

1:10.6

of life you can be proud of or even become the kind of person that the people you respect

1:14.8

are proud of.

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