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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 29 March 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent.

To look like Jesus, we must learn how to live in the Presence of the Father.

When it comes to our relationship with the Father, too often it is marked by hiding our hearts or avoiding His gaze. But we must learn how to live like Jesus, who remained in the Father's Presence at all times and with profound trust.

Mass Readings from March 30, 2025:
Joshua 5:9, 10-12
Psalm 34:2-7
2 Corinthians 5:17-21

Transcript

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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.
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0:24.0	You can also follow or subscribe on your podcast app for weekly notifications.
0:28.3	God bless.
0:29.9	The Lord be with you.
0:32.2	A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.
0:35.6	Glory to Lord.
0:37.0	Chapter 15 verses 1 through 3 and verses 11 through 32.
0:41.6	Tax collectors and sinners were all drawing nearer to listen to Jesus, but the Pharisees and scribes
0:46.1	and began to complain, saying, this man welcomes sinners and eats with them.
0:50.5	So to them, Jesus addressed this parable.
0:53.1	A man had two sons, and the younger son said to his father,
0:56.0	Father, give me the share of your estate that should come to me.
0:59.0	So the father divided the property between them.
1:01.0	After a few days, the younger son collected all his belongings
1:04.0	and set off to a distant country where he squandered his inheritance on a life of dissipation.
1:09.0	When he had freely spent everything, a severe famine struck that country,
1:12.6	and he found himself in dire need.
1:14.6	So he hired himself out to tend to one of the local citizens who sent him to his farm to tend the swine.
1:20.6	And he longed to eat his fill on the pods on which the swine fed, but nobody gave him any.
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