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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

03/17/19 Behind Enemy Lines: My Own Worst Enemy

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 18 March 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Second Sunday of Lent.

You have to know yourself to say no to yourself.

We are in a battle, but our primary enemy is closer than we might like to imagine. In order to gain true freedom and victory, we have to know this enemy and know when to say no to them.

Mass Readings from March 17, 2019:
Genesis 15:5-12, 17-18
Psalms 27:1, 7-8, 8-9, 13-14
Philippians 3:17-4:1

Luke 9:28-36

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0:00.0

So I mentioned at the beginning of a mess or asked the question of beginning of a mess.

0:04.8

If you have a bad idea friend, like that, that I, again, the concept of that idea friend

0:13.0

is that friend who always got you in trouble or maybe they continue to get you in trouble.

0:16.7

I had a bad idea friend for as long as my entire life.

0:22.1

And just I found myself every time I did, one of the things like every time I did what

0:26.7

he asked me to do, I was like, okay, now I'm in trouble.

0:29.3

I found myself being the biggest jerk whenever he was around.

0:31.7

I was the biggest jerk.

0:32.7

I would talk back to my parents saying things I never would say before I remember.

0:36.4

He, another friend in Pete was the one, was over a couple times.

0:41.1

Pete was we were in the basement and planned.

0:42.8

And at one point he had the idea of like, he's a bunch of men of stomach.

0:46.0

So I'm like, okay, a bunch of men of stomach.

0:48.4

And then Pete's crying, we were both in second grade.

0:50.3

I was just a bunch of second grade.

0:51.3

I was also second grade, by the way, I was like, and I was like, oh, he was like, get him

0:55.7

to quiet down.

0:56.7

Pete, don't let my mom know that I just punched you in the stomach.

0:59.5

Like, I'll give you my legos.

1:00.6

You're like, again, bad idea friend.

1:03.6

Got me to do a bunch of bad stuff.

1:05.7

I'm ever going in to, in high school, walking into rooms with him and he'd be like, look

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