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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

04/03/22 Last Words: Use This.

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Lent.

Some last words have the power to define a person's life.

From the Cross, Jesus utters His last words. He thirsts for us to allow Him to forgive us.

Mass Readings from April 3, 2022:
Isaiah 43:16-21
Psalms 126:1-6
Philippians 3:8-14

John 8:1-11

Transcript

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0:00.0

So I know that I totally, I talked about a movie last week, one of those famous movies

0:06.2

Citizen Kane, and I was like, you know what, I'm on a roll, why not, keep on the movie

0:09.8

theme.

0:10.8

In fact, I was reflecting on how often in really great stories, often in really good movies,

0:16.1

there are incredible last words.

0:18.4

So one of the movies that is ranked really high in IMDB with Citizen Kane is a movie that

0:23.1

came out in 1998.

0:24.1

It's called Saving Private Ryan.

0:25.7

If you guys have ever seen Saving, so it's, again, it's probably made before many people

0:29.2

were born, but it is one of those high, it's one of those movies that is just, you can't

0:33.8

watch it and be unmoved.

0:35.2

The movie opens up with this old man and he's, he's walking with his wife behind him and

0:40.0

his grown children behind her.

0:41.7

And you find pretty soon that he's walking into a cemetery.

0:45.5

It's a cemetery in France, in fact, in Normandy, amongst all these headstones of allied troops

0:49.7

who died in the invasion of Normandy and on D-Day.

0:54.4

And he walks up to the headstone of a person in particular, the headstone of a man named

0:58.4

Captain John Miller and he stops and he just stands there and the entire movie is told

1:03.6

in flashback.

1:04.6

And they flashback immediately to June 6, 1944, D-Day.

1:07.8

It was all, it's graphic, it's, it's, in fact, there are World War II vets who were

1:12.6

there who watched the movie and they said that is exactly what it was like.

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