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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

04/25/21 Inclusive Love/Exclusive Claim

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter.

Inclusive means neither passive nor permissive.

To be included is an incredible gift. To be inclusive is powerful. It means more than being “welcome”, it means being radically open and desperately fighting to bring people in. The Church is as inclusive as God’s love. And yet, Jesus is also exclusive in His claim. Jesus has made an exclusive claim about Himself. And if this is true, Jesus has an exclusive claim on us.

Mass Readings from April 25, 2021:
Acts 4:8-12
Psalms 118:1, 8-9, 21-23, 26, 28, 29
1 John 3:1-2

John 10:11-18

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0:00.0

So in my family, there are six siblings.

0:04.6

I'm one of six and I love them all.

0:08.4

There's three boys, three girls, two oldest or two girls,

0:11.8

then my older brother, then me and then the younger sister

0:14.0

and a younger brother.

0:14.9

And they're all great.

0:16.6

But in the last couple of weeks,

0:17.8

I've been reflecting on my older brother a lot.

0:19.9

I'm not sure why exactly, but he's 20 months older than me.

0:22.7

So he's two years ahead of me in school.

0:24.2

And so when I was a freshman, he was a junior in high school.

0:27.3

And when I was a sophomore, he was a senior.

0:29.1

See how they went?

0:29.7

It was great.

0:31.4

But I remember when my older sister's graduated,

0:33.4

and they left, so they used to boss us around

0:35.0

and tell us what to do.

0:35.9

And I remember on Friday nights, I'm kind of an introvert.

0:38.1

When I say kind of, I mean a serious introvert.

0:40.4

And so on a Friday night, when everyone else is gone,

0:43.5

man, my ideal thing would be, I'm going downstairs.

0:46.7

I'm going to sit in front of the TV.

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