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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

02/21/21 To The Heart: Untamed and Untamable

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

Ascension

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🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the First Sunday of Lent.

God is not safe, but He is good.

Trust is a challenge for all of us. Trust in God is a battle that every person faces at some point in their lives. Often, we might find is easier to trust God if He were a “tame god”, but He is not. This Lent, our invitation is to not only trust in God’s mercy, but also in His justice.

Mass Readings from February 21, 2021:
Genesis 9:8-15
Psalms 25:4-9
1 Peter 3:18-22

Mark 1:12-15

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So I was thinking about this, what would make this lint an awesome lint?

0:07.0

Like, what would make it like not just a very good lint, it would make it a great lint.

0:12.0

What would make this, like, you know, Matthew Kelly has the best lint ever,

0:15.0

what would make this lint the best lint ever?

0:17.0

What would have to accomplish, what would have to be true at the end of this time for it actually to be,

0:21.0

I lent that, you'll say it like this, a lint that was unprecedented.

0:26.0

It could be a situation where I removed all the vices, right?

0:30.0

Like, so I drilled it down, here's the things in my life that I just need to get rid of,

0:34.0

and you did it. That would be awesome. That would be a very good lint.

0:37.0

It could be a lint where maybe you needed to increase your prayer,

0:40.0

and at the end of 40 days, you had to increase your prayer. Well done. Gold star.

0:44.0

Good lint. Maybe it was a thing where you needed to have a more generous heart,

0:47.0

so you did the Almsgiving thing, and that was awesome. Super good. High five.

0:52.0

A for the day. Those would be really great things. All of those things would be really good.

0:57.0

But there's one thing I think that would, again, make this lint unprecedented,

1:01.0

and it would transform. I think it would transform. If we did this one thing,

1:04.0

it would transform not just the next 40 days, I think it would transform the next 40 years.

1:10.0

In order to understand what it is, I think we have to go back to the first lint.

1:13.0

It's not really technically the first lint, but we have 40 days of this wilderness journey,

1:18.0

and the Israelites had 40 years. It was a little longer for them. But remember the story,

1:22.0

how the story goes. The Israelites are, their slaves in Egypt for 400 years.

1:26.0

In one point, God sets them free. He fights for them, and they're set free.

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