02/14/24 Ash Wednesday: Hope, Faith, Love in Lent
Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
Ascension
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🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Homily from Ash Wednesday.
We hope He sees. We have faith it matters to Him. We do it because He said so.
During Lent, we have the chance to make our lives an act of hope, faith, and love. More than growing in discipline or self-improvement, Lent is a chance to live what we believe by prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.
- Mass Readings from February 14, 2024:
- Joel 2:12-18
- Psalms 51:3--6, 12-14 and 17
- 2 Corinthians 5:20—6:2
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sunday Homilies with me, Father Mike Schmitz. |
| 0:04.4 | I hope today's homily inspires and motivates you, |
| 0:07.4 | and I also hope that it leaves you hungry for the one who gave everything to feed you. |
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| 0:28.0 | God bless. |
| 0:30.0 | The Lord be with you. |
| 0:32.0 | In your reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew. |
| 0:35.0 | Jesus said to his disciples, |
| 0:40.0 | Take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that other people might see them. |
| 0:44.0 | Otherwise, you will have no recompense from your Heavenly Father. |
| 0:47.0 | When you give alms, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win the praise of others. |
| 0:54.8 | Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward. |
| 0:58.8 | But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing so that your alms giving |
| 1:04.8 | may be secret, and your father who sees in secret will repay you. |
| 1:10.5 | When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, who love to stand and pray in the synagogues and not street corners |
| 1:15.5 | So that others may see them |
| 1:17.6 | Amen. I say to you they have received their reward |
| 1:21.1 | But when you pray go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your |
| 1:26.4 | father in secret. And your father who sees in secret will repay you. When you |
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