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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

02/20/22 Nothing to Fear: Vulnerability

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Vulnerability is having enough courage and self-possession to let life in.

All of our fears stem from the fact that we are woundable. We care about rejection, inadequacy, and the future because we know that all of those things have the potential to hurt us, But the fear of being vulnerable does not have to define our lives.

Mass Readings from February 20, 2022:
1 Samuel 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23
Psalms 103:1-4, 8, 10, 12-13
1 Corinthians 15:45-49

Luke 6:27-38

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So I'm sure that many of you have heard of a woman named Brunei Brown.

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You know, Brunei Brown, she is a researcher and an author and a speaker.

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She has like a Gajillion views on her TED Talks.

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She's like pretty, pretty remarkable woman.

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But one of her talks, she did this thing.

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I'm going to steal it, totally steal it from her, where she said,

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I'm going to paint you a picture.

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So I'm going to paint you the picture.

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She says, imagine the scene. It's a movie.

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You're watching a movie.

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And here's a young family of four.

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Mom and dad in the front, two kids in the back.

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And it's Christmas Eve.

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It's dark out. They're on the way to grandma's house.

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And the snow gently starts falling.

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You know, as they're driving through this dark road, the light beams up ahead,

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catching all the snowflakes as they're falling.

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And jingle bells comes on the radio.

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And the family just bursts into song.

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They're all laughing, having a great time.

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They're singing along on the way to grandma's house.

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Now, cut. You're the director.

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