04/21/24 Nunc Coepi: Season of Discouragement

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 20 April 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter.

Stand in the truth and do the next right thing.

Life can easily overwhelm us, leaving us in a place where we feel beaten and in a season of discouragement. But choosing humility and hope...choosing to live the truth and to do the next right thing...is the key to living courageously.

Mass Readings from April 21, 2024:
Acts 4:8-12
Psalms 118:1, 8-9, 21-23, 26, 28, 29
1 John 3:1-2

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sunday Homilies with me, Father Mike Schmitz.
0:04.4	I hope today's homily inspires and motivates you,
0:07.4	and I also hope that it leaves you hungry for the one who gave everything to feed you.
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0:28.0	God bless.
0:30.0	The Lord be with you.
0:32.0	In reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.
0:35.0	Chapter 10, 11 through 18.
0:40.0	Jesus said, I am the good shepherd.
0:43.7	A good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep.
0:46.7	A hired man who is not a shepherd and whose sheep are not his own,
0:49.7	sees a wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away and the wolf catches and
0:54.4	scatters them. This is because he works for pay and has no concern for the sheep.
1:00.0	I am the good shepherd and I know mine and mine know me just as the father knows me and I know the father and I will lay down my life for the sheep.
1:11.0	I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. These also I must lead and
1:15.3	they will hear my voice and there will be one flock, one shepherd. This is why the
1:21.3	father loves me because I lay down my life in order to take it up again.
1:26.3	No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own.
1:31.0	I have power to lay it down and power to take it up again.
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