04/03/26 Good Friday: Everything is Taken
Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
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Summary
Homily from Good Friday.
A king without His armor.
At the end of our lives, there are no defenses. At the end of Christ's life, He clings to no defenses. He has poured it all out, and all is taken from Him. All that is left is the Man Himself. At the end of our lives, we will only be left with our heart...everything else is taken.
Mass Readings from April 3, 2026: Isaiah 52:13—53:12 Psalm 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 25Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9John 18:1—19:42
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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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| 0:28.3 | God bless. |
| 0:29.9 | So at the beginning of Lent, I had the honor of being invited by a friend of mine |
| 0:34.6 | to be with her dad as he was dying and to anoint him |
| 0:43.2 | and pray for him. And that was the beginning of Lent. |
| 0:50.5 | Due with a man named Ray as he was dying. |
| 0:55.7 | Go back, if you think back to Lent, the first Sunday of Lent, what do we see? |
| 1:01.1 | The first Sunday of Lent almost always, I think always, is Jesus going into the wilderness |
| 1:05.3 | and doing battle with the evil one, right? |
| 1:07.9 | So it's Jesus, he gets anointed with the Father declares over Jesus, |
| 1:11.2 | this is my beloved son, he's anointed by the power of the Holy Spirit. He's the king. What does the king do? And the king, that first Sunday of Lent, the king does what? He's anointed and he goes to fight for his people. And he shows himself as the king, right? He's the brave king who goes into the wilderness. He is the kind king who heals his people. |
| 1:28.8 | He is the wise king who teaches. |
| 1:30.5 | He's the brave king who goes into the wilderness. He is the kind king who |
| 1:27.8 | He heals his people. He is the wise king who teaches. He's the powerful king. This is really |
| 1:33.1 | who Jesus is, right? Jesus is the king. We even hear that in the gospel today. The pilot, |
| 1:37.2 | you are a king. He is a king. And today, what do we see? |
| 1:45.9 | Like what is Jesus show us? |
| 1:53.3 | Today what we get to see, we see this thing that no one has ever seen in human history. |
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