02/03/19 Disqualified: Remarkably Average

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 4 February 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Being unqualified does not disqualify when God calls.

There are many people who would look remarkably average on paper. Our stats would reveal that we are unqualified for being a part of God’s great work. But the Lord calls us to the greatest of these: love.

Mass Readings from February 3, 2019:
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 I've been thinking about that idea of being average,
0:03.0	like the question we asked in the beginning of a mess.
0:05.4	So it's just the idea of like,
0:06.8	I don't know that many of us would say like,
0:09.6	yeah, that's awesome, that's what I'm shooting for.
0:11.0	I'm going for like, middle of the pack.
0:14.4	That's where I want to finish the race.
0:15.7	Whether it's like in class and school,
0:17.6	in a natural race or in life.
0:19.8	Just I want to, I'm going for average.
0:21.4	I want to have a very, very remarkably mediocre life.
0:24.9	I don't think anyone is shooting for that.
0:27.4	I think very few of us would want that.
0:28.8	How many maybe you'd love to settle for that?
0:31.2	I don't think any of us looked and say like,
0:33.5	my heroes are the ones who are remarkably mediocre.
0:36.2	Like, you've got to look to are the ones
0:38.2	who are remarkably average.
0:41.6	And yet at the same time,
0:42.7	I maybe I kind of find myself doing that.
0:44.4	There was this young woman that I've been captivated by.
0:48.2	She died in 1981.
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