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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

02/23/20 Defiant Love

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

Ascension

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🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.

If we are going to love like Jesus, we must love differently…we must love defiantly.

The Universe is indifferent to us. People can be vicious to us. The Christian’s response is not indifference nor viciousness. The Christian response is to love in the face of indifference and evil.

Mass Readings from February 23, 2020:
Leviticus 19:1-2, 17-18
Psalms 103:1-4, 8, 10, 12-13
1 Corinthians 3:16-23

Matthew 5:38-48

See the Picture of Saint Maria Goretti

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So this happened on October 2nd, 2006 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

0:10.9

It's an Amish community in that area.

0:12.6

And there was this man, these kids, the parents dropped off their kids at this one room school

0:17.0

house because the Amish and these kids are anywhere from six years old to 12 years old.

0:21.9

And you imagine, October 2nd, so the weather is kind of going from the hot in Pennsylvania

0:26.2

to being a little bit cooler and his parents dropped these kids off, so they could buy to

0:29.2

them and a little while later this man, that most of them knew he was a delivery man in the

0:32.8

area.

0:33.8

He wasn't Amish, but he made deliveries to the community.

0:37.3

He walks into the school and looks around, talks to some of the teachers and then walks

0:41.9

out and he walks back in with a gun.

0:48.6

He ties up 10 of the kids in six years old, seven years old, nine years old.

0:56.8

Some kids ran away, some adults ran away, but he had these 10 here and he took out his gun

1:01.2

and he aimed the gun at them and he shot 10 of them.

1:08.1

Five of them died and then he shot and killed himself.

1:14.0

And you just imagine how like absolutely devastating, devastating to these moms and dads

1:19.8

had just dropped their kids off.

1:22.7

Devastating to this Amish community, devastating, I mean, devastating to the country.

1:25.2

I remember when this happened, it was like instantly that news that morning was so big,

1:30.2

but then there came out news, then news came out that night.

1:33.1

News came out that afternoon and that evening that this community had come and they'd rallied

1:36.8

around these families who had lost their children and these parents who had literally

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