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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

God is able to make you holy even if He never makes you whole.

There are some things in our lives (our decisions, our wounds, our weaknesses) that we wish and pray were gone. God calls you and I in our weakness; He doesn’t necessarily call us out of our weakness.

Mass Readings from February 10, 2019:
Isaiah 6:1-2, 3-8
Psalms 138:1-5, 7-8
1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Luke 5:1-11

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0:00.0

So, last July, I came across the story of this man who lived, I don't know,

0:08.0

100 plus years ago in China. His name was G Tien Chen. And there's one of those

0:15.9

kind of interesting things just reading the story of his life kind of like

0:18.6

last week with Kiarra. He had a kind of remarkably average life. He, but he's a

0:22.9

good man. He was faithful Catholic man who living in China, who became a doctor

0:27.4

and a physician. And so, he just cared for all the people around him, just like a

0:30.8

normal good like man of God who believed what he preached, what he professed on.

0:35.7

Sundays, he actually lived it out. It's one of the reasons why he became a doctor

0:38.5

is so he could help people. And he did this for a long time. Had a wife, had some

0:41.6

kids. And then something happened. He got hurt. And in his, in his pain, all

0:48.9

the physicians prescribed him some opioids. And what happened to G Tien Chen is

0:57.2

what's happened to so many people. He relatively quickly became addicted to opium.

1:03.7

And this man, of course, he didn't want to be. I mean, this is not part of his

1:08.7

plan, right? He was a good guy. And he, here he is now that with this addict and

1:13.2

he kept going back to confession. He used and he got back to confession. And he

1:16.4

used and got back to confession. And finally, after years of this, you know, people

1:19.6

didn't back then didn't understand that addiction is a disease, right? So they

1:23.0

just thought he's a moral, he's, he's, he's, as a moral failing. Like if you really

1:26.8

didn't want to do this, he would just stop, you know? And so the priest at one

1:30.8

point, you know, priest of human, he said, listen, gee, I know you, but here's the

1:34.9

deal. Until you get clean, you can't come back to confession. Until you're

1:39.1

serious about this, because he just, you know, he didn't realize. Until you're

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