01/17/21 Hindsight 20/20: The Moment Before the Moment

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time.

We can’t predict The Moment, but we can prepare in the moment before The Moment.

While no one can predict the future, all of us can learn from the past. While none of us can control when the big moments of our lives are going to happen, all of us can choose what we are doing in the moments before The Moment.

Mass Readings from January 17, 2021:
1 Samuel 3:3-10, 19
Psalms 40:2, 4, 7-10
1 Corinthians 6:13-15, 17-20

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0:00.0	So there are so many different like gifts, right?
0:05.5	When people are our leaders or when they're serving,
0:08.1	I just am so amazed and so kind of,
0:10.7	in some ways I guess we'd be humbled by the fact
0:12.8	that there are so many gifted people around,
0:14.9	but one of the gifts that I just like,
0:16.3	I don't wanna call it like a holy envy,
0:18.0	I think there's just envy envy that people have.
0:20.3	Like the gift of vision,
0:21.4	like you know the people who have like,
0:22.5	they have the gift of vision,
0:23.6	basically they can look at the world and say,
0:25.8	I can see what the world needs.
0:27.4	Like they can look at the community,
0:28.6	or maybe they'll get the church and say,
0:29.7	no I can see exactly what the community needs,
0:32.4	I can see what the church needs.
0:33.6	I can see where we need to go.
0:35.2	And I just, I like that.
0:38.1	I think I wish I had that.
0:39.3	And there's a priest in our diocese
0:40.5	who has like vision coming out of his nose.
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