01/12/25 Claimed
Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
Ascension
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🗓️ 11 January 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Homily from the Baptism of the Lord.
You've been claimed at the lowest point.
The Baptism of the Lord is a mystery. The mystery of how Christ comes into contact with the water...and it does not change Him; He changes it. This is the pattern from this moment on: Christ comes into contact with us, claims us, and changes us.
- Mass Readings from January 12, 2025:
- Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7
- Psalms 29:1-4, 9-10
- Acts 10:34-38
Luke 3:15-16, 21-22
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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, |
| 0:07.6 | and I also hope that it leaves you hungry for the one who gave everything to feed you. |
| 0:12.4 | If you want to get this in other Sunday mass resources sent straight to your inbox, |
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| 0:25.0 | subscribe on your podcast app for weekly notifications. God bless. The Lord be with you. A reading from |
| 0:33.3 | the Holy Gospel according to Matthew. Chapter 3 verses 13 through 17. |
| 0:40.8 | Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. |
| 0:45.2 | John tried to prevent him saying, |
| 0:47.6 | I need to be baptized by you, and yet you are coming to me. |
| 0:51.8 | Jesus said to him in reply, |
| 0:54.0 | Allow it now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. |
| 0:58.2 | Then he allowed him. After Jesus was baptized, he came up from the water, |
| 1:02.7 | and behold, the heavens were open for him, and he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove |
| 1:06.9 | and coming upon him. And a voice came from the heavens, saying, |
| 1:12.6 | This is my beloved son, with whom I am well pleased. |
| 1:14.6 | The gospel of the Lord. |
| 1:17.6 | I may you have a seat. |
| 1:20.6 | So this is one of those situations where every one of us has been there |
| 1:24.6 | where you have like something really, really good to eat. |
| 1:29.3 | I don't know why, but I'm thinking of it specifically. |
| 1:31.6 | You ever have like a dove bar? |
| 1:33.6 | Like, so our magnum, you know, traveling through Israel, there are these things called magnum bars. |
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