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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

04/05/20 Un-Done: Unfinished

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 5 April 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Homily from Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion.

Jesus has not removed suffering from our lives, He has redeemed the suffering in our lives.

Jesus accomplished the Father’s will in His passion, death, and resurrection. His mission of salvation is “finished.” And yet, Christ’s Body on earth still lives out the mission of Her Head: we are called to unite our sufferings to His for the salvation of the world. And this work — the work He has entrusted to us — remains unfinished.

Mass Readings from April 5, 2020:
Isaiah 50:4-7
Psalms 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24
Philippians 2:6-11

Matthew 26:14-27:66

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Transcript

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0:00.0

So there's that line. It says, after he had received the line,

0:07.5

have to drink the wine, Jesus said, cried out in a loud voice.

0:11.0

And Matthew doesn't say what he cried out.

0:12.5

Matthew doesn't say what he said, but John says what he said.

0:15.2

And John points out that what Jesus says is it is finished.

0:23.6

That is finished.

0:25.0

I've been thinking a lot about unfinished furniture.

0:31.4

I don't know why. Actually, I know why because it's today.

0:33.7

And like with the concept of unfinished furniture,

0:36.9

it became popular basically, I think,

0:38.9

beginning in the 1980s somewhere in there,

0:40.5

where you go to the store or you order this,

0:42.9

there's a table, there's a chair, there is a dresser,

0:46.0

and it's either it's not treated wood or it's not stained

0:49.6

or it's not painted or it's not sanded down.

0:51.8

And you buy it like that. You buy it unfinished.

0:54.5

So you can finish it. That's the idea.

0:55.9

But the interesting thing I've been thinking about again

0:57.9

is like, but that's a real chair.

0:59.1

Like even though it's an unfinished chair, it's a full chair.

1:01.2

Like you can't like make it more chair later on.

1:04.2

You don't add anything to it that makes it more chair.

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