01/31/21 Hindsight 20/20: Worthless Knowledge

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 2 February 2021

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Summary

Homily from the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

I learned, but I didn’t grow.

Knowledge is powerful. Having lived through this past year, and looking back on what we have been through is essential. We can have learned a great number of things over 2020. But unless we are willing to act on that knowledge, hindsight will be powerless.

Mass Readings from January 31, 2021:
Deuteronomy 18:15-20
Psalms 95:1-2, 6-7, 7-9
1 Corinthians 7:32-35

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0:00.0	So that question at the beginning of Mass, the question of what is one thing that you
0:05.6	would like to know about your future?
0:06.8	I think, I don't know what your answer is where I, but I think, you know, it could be anything
0:10.4	obviously, right?
0:11.4	It could be those questions of, I don't know, am I going to get married?
0:16.7	What is my vocation going to be?
0:18.2	Is how many, if I get married, how many, will I have kids, how many of those kids, it could
0:21.3	be a question about like, I just want to know my occupation, I just want to know like,
0:24.8	what I'm, am I going to make money?
0:26.2	Will I get a job?
0:27.2	Or maybe it's like even your health.
0:28.4	Like just sometimes we are overly concerned, we're just naturally concerned with our health.
0:33.2	Maybe the thing you wanted to know about your life is like, when is it going to end?
0:37.2	Like, I want to know when I'm going to die.
0:40.5	Because you're really morbid and whatnot.
0:42.3	There can be any number of things.
0:44.4	So the question is, is this, whatever it was at the beginning of Mass, that you said,
0:47.6	this is the one thing I would like to know about myself in my future.
0:52.2	The question I have is, why that?
0:56.6	Like why that thing?
0:59.1	I think a lot of us would say, I don't know, I just, I want to know.
1:01.2	And I think, that's great.
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