02/27/22 Words Disclose

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Our words disclose, disguise, and direct our hearts.

The words we use are powerful. They can build up and they can destroy. But they can also reveal our character.

Mass Readings from February 27, 2022:
Sirach 27:4-7
Psalms 92:2-3, 13-16
1 Corinthians 15:54-58

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0:00.0	So when I was a kid, I thought, so I memorized a ton of stuff because I thought like if I
0:07.0	knew stuffy, I thought it'd be really impressive.
0:09.3	One of those, I don't know if you ever did that.
0:10.6	So like, for example, when I was younger, much younger, long time ago, there was this thing
0:14.8	called the McDonald's menu song.
0:16.1	The commercial was like this.
0:17.4	Someone walked up to the counter-economic donals and they said, can I take your order?
0:20.2	And they launched into the entire menu.
0:22.4	And I thought, I'm going to memorize that.
0:23.9	It was like big Mac with the LTA quarter pound of the wisdom season for the lay of
0:26.2	fisheye hamburger.
0:27.2	Keep going on.
0:28.2	I have it in my head right now.
0:29.2	I wanted it.
0:30.2	But I thought it was so cool.
0:32.4	I didn't memorize anyone.
0:33.7	I thought the day was going to come one day when I walked into McDonald's and they were
0:37.8	saying, sir, can I take your order?
0:39.0	And I would just do this and they'd be like, no way.
0:41.8	You're so cool.
0:42.8	You're the king of McDonald's.
0:44.1	You're like our burger king.
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