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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

01/19/20 Underestimated: Single Unifying Principle

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time.

The single unifying principle unites all of the various threads of our life into one whole image.

It is “too little” to remain who you are instead of becoming who God needs you to be.

Mass Readings from January 19, 2020:
Isaiah 49:3, 5-6
Psalms 40:2, 4, 7-10
1 Corinthians 1:1-3

John 1:29-34

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0:00.0

So it's been one week.

0:03.6

Last week was the date.

0:07.1

Literally a week ago, last Sunday on January 12th was the date that if you're a person

0:13.8

who sets New Year's resolutions, January 12th, last week was the day that most people

0:19.1

who set New Year's resolutions quit, they stopped.

0:21.1

That was the last week, a whole week ago.

0:23.4

Twelve days into the new year, people have these incredible plans, right?

0:26.0

Like, the kind of people who set New Year's resolutions, it's the kind of people who wanted

0:28.6

to change in their life in 12 days.

0:32.5

So, you know, only 8% of people who have been set New Year's resolutions actually accomplished

0:37.2

their New Year's resolution.

0:38.5

And the majority of them quit, the majority of us, let's just be honest, the majority

0:45.0

of us quit in under two weeks.

0:50.0

I don't know if you're a New Year's resolution people, but like that kind of thing, like,

0:52.7

you know, there could be school resolutions, okay, this semester.

0:54.6

Here's the deal.

0:55.6

I'm going to study, I'm going to live in the library.

0:57.4

That'll be my new PO box, like, or this semester, it's all about, I'm at the gym, at this

1:02.4

time, it's my spot, this is my treadmill, no one gets on it, I'm on there at 6 o'clock,

1:06.5

that's your thing.

1:07.5

Or it could be like, no, this semester, last year, I gave myself, last semester, it was

1:10.5

too much about work, this all be about relationships, this is all about, make time for friends.

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