01/30/22 Nothing to Fear: Rejection

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Do not sacrifice your identity and integrity on the altar of approval.

We all need acceptance. It is a basic human requirement. But we also must have the courage and freedom to know who we are and what we are about independent of the accepting group.

Mass Readings from January 30, 2022:
Jeremiah 1:4-5, 17-19
Psalms 71:1-6, 15-17
1 Corinthians 12:31—13:13

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0:00.0	So, we have focus on our campus, right?
0:05.0	So focus is the fellowship of Catholic University students.
0:07.1	And basically, if you are you graduated college
0:10.8	and you want to be a missionary on a college campus,
0:12.5	it's awesome.
0:13.5	It's a great thing to choose.
0:15.4	We didn't, I didn't have focus when I graduated college.
0:17.5	And so I regret that I never was a focus missionary,
0:20.6	but at the same time, I didn't have the shot.
0:22.1	So it's kind of like, oh gee, but I did.
0:24.5	I did have the opportunity.
0:25.6	Have you heard of Net?
0:27.1	Net ministry, so Net is the national evangelization team.
0:29.4	And so, on college campuses, there's four missionaries,
0:32.0	two guys to girls.
0:33.0	Net has like 11 people in a van.
0:35.2	And they travel all over the country,
0:36.6	and they put on retreats for high school students,
0:38.1	junior high students, and like do a lot of ministry this way.
0:40.5	There's Net USA, there's Net Canada,
0:42.5	there's Net Australia.
0:44.3	That would have been incredible.
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