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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

02/09/20 Good...For Nothing?

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

Ascension

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🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Refuse to live as salt and light, and the Father remains unknown, unloved, and unglorified.

God trusts us with being His representatives in this world. He has made us His and He has made us good. But to what end? God has made us good for a purpose. Do we live in such a way that we have been made good for nothing?

Mass Readings from February 9, 2020:
Isaiah 58:7-10
Psalms 112:4-5, 6-7, 8-9
1 Corinthians 2:1-5

Matthew 5:13-16

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Transcript

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So I've been thinking recently about, like, you know how on people's social media they

0:07.0

have the profile, like description of themselves, you know, under your name you have like what

0:11.7

you're into or whatever the kind of things you've ever noticed this thing.

0:14.4

I never have anything, I just have my name, because I can never think of anything creative

0:17.4

enough.

0:18.4

And so then I also am free now to look at other people and judge them really harshly.

0:22.4

Because I don't even notice this that when it comes to like the Instagram, there's this

0:26.0

one ad gosh, I don't even know why.

0:28.6

It doesn't bother me, it just makes me chuckle.

0:31.9

Someone's Instagram page and then it has their name and all it says is just for fun.

0:36.2

Have you ever seen that?

0:37.2

Someone's Instagram page just for fun.

0:38.5

Maybe that's some of you and you're looking at me, like you're really angry at me.

0:41.2

But I always think like, oh, so you're not, this isn't your professional Instagram page.

0:45.9

Like this is just the fun one.

0:47.6

I get it.

0:48.6

Of course, it's Instagram, it's all just for fun.

0:50.7

For crying out loud.

0:52.6

It was funny here in my head, maybe before I said it and shared it out loud with you.

0:55.4

I just made one of those things you noticed as you're scrolling.

0:59.8

There's one in Twitter that just always is so interesting to me.

1:03.0

When people have like here's their name, all the descriptions and then say something like

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