03/09/25 The Place of the Way: The Desert

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 8 March 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the First Sunday of Lent.

The only way out is through.

As we enter into the desert, the desert takes away the things we tend to trust in...the things we use as comforts and crutches...and we are led through the "training place" to the place of being able to live like Christ.

Mass Readings from March 9, 2025:
Deuteronomy 26:4-10
Psalm 91:1-2, 10-15
Romans 10:8-13

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sunday homilies with me, Father Mike Schmitz. I hope today's homily inspires and motivates you,
0:07.6	and I also hope that it leaves you hungry for the one who gave everything to feed you.
0:12.4	If you want to get this in other Sunday mass resources sent straight to your inbox,
0:16.9	sign up at ascensionpress.com slash Sunday or by texting Sunday to 33777. You can also follow or subscribe
0:25.3	on your podcast app for weekly notifications. God bless. The Lord be with you. A reading from the
0:33.5	Holy Gospel according to Luke. Chapter 4, verses 1 through 13.
0:40.2	Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit
0:44.0	into the desert for 40 days to be tempted by the devil.
0:48.3	He ate nothing during those days, and when they were over, he was hungry.
0:52.4	The devil said to him, if you are the son of God,
0:55.2	command this stone to become bread.
0:57.9	Jesus answered him,
0:59.2	it is written, one does not live on bread alone.
1:02.6	Then Satan took him up and showed him
1:05.0	all the kingdoms of the world in a single instant.
1:07.8	The devil said to him,
1:08.9	I shall give you all this power and glory, for it has
1:11.7	been handed over to me, and I may give it to whomever I wish. All this will be yours if you worship
1:17.6	me. Jesus said to him in reply, it is written, you shall worship the Lord your God, and him
1:23.4	alone shall you serve. Then he led him to Jerusalem and made him stand on the parapet of the temple
1:28.6	and said to him, if you are the son of God, throw yourself down from here, for it is written,
1:34.4	he will command his angels concerning you to guard you, and with their hands they will support you,
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