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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

02/17/19 The Fighting Virtue

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

Ascension

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🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Willing to engage and embrace the realities of life.

Hope is not a “soft” virtue. It is a fighting virtue. Hope is what enables us to live in the present with strength and conviction. It takes hope to take action.

Mass Readings from February 17, 2019:
Jeremiah 17:5-8
Psalms 1:1-4, 6
1 Corinthians 15:12, 16-20

Luke 6:17, 20-26

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0:00.0

So that question at the beginning of a mess.

0:05.0

What's the maximum age you would want to live until?

0:10.0

I heard a couple of guesses that were like, oh, 21 is good.

0:14.0

I'm good, I'm fine, I'm done.

0:17.0

Others, you know, it's funny because people are like, I don't know, maybe 70,

0:24.0

100, you know, 100's a good round number kind of a thing.

0:26.0

But I wonder, like, what makes us say this is the cap?

0:30.0

Like, what makes us say, like, you know, maybe 103 because, you know, I broke the barrier in three years past that.

0:36.0

Like, why not 170?

0:38.0

Like, honestly, why not, like, why don't, why stop at 100's?

0:41.0

Why not like 350?

0:43.0

When it comes to that, answering that question, I imagine that a big part of the limiting factor was the idea of like, what, man, I guess, you know,

0:51.0

as long as I still have my health, I guess I'll keep going on living.

0:54.0

It's like, if I can keep traveling, maybe I'll go on living.

0:56.0

If I still have, you know, money and means and stuff, I might as well keep on living.

1:01.0

As long as I have people in my life, you know, I imagine you get to a certain age.

1:05.0

I mean, I know this, you get to a certain age and everyone you know is dead.

1:08.0

That's what happens.

1:10.0

So kind of the idea of like, well, if I don't still have my health and I don't still have finances,

1:14.0

if I don't have people around me, then what's the point of living?

1:20.0

You might as well die.

1:22.0

I mean, that's on its harsh, right, when I say that.

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