01/23/22 Know Why

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Imagine living your entire life and not knowing why.

The return of the exiled Jews from Babylon was a great gift. But it also highlighted the reality that many of them did not know why they were Jewish. Do Catholics know why they are Catholic? Or do we lose our way precisely because we have lost our why?

Mass Readings from January 23, 2022
Nehemiah 8:2-6, 8-10
Psalms 19:8-10, 15
1 Corinthians 12:12-30

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0:00.0	So it's one of those things about this time of year where it's the beginning.
0:07.6	But it's also not the beginning, right?
0:09.1	So the beginning was fall.
0:11.0	Now it's January.
0:13.3	It's one of those situations where the memory of, I think this, I think it's, let me back
0:18.8	up.
0:19.8	I think it's really easy to start things when it's easy to start things.
0:23.0	I know, it's profound, but that's what I'm here for.
0:25.6	Profound things.
0:26.6	It's really easy to say yes to things.
0:30.6	I mean, that's how they get you, isn't it?
0:32.6	You show up the first day of class.
0:33.6	Is this class hard?
0:34.6	I don't know.
0:35.6	Civil of a state.
0:36.6	Piece of cake.
0:37.6	They'll be you start.
0:38.6	You fall in love with someone and get married to them.
0:40.6	Is this going to be difficult?
0:41.6	I don't know.
0:42.6	We're still googly at each other.
0:43.6	Like, it's piece of cake.
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