05/03/20 Insecure: Untroubled by the Unknown

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter.

Knowing does not equal security.

In a world of insecurity, it is less important to know where one is being lead, and more important to know who is doing the leading.

Mass Readings from May 3, 2020:
Acts 2:14, 36-41
Psalms 23:1-6
1 Peter 2:20-25

Transcript

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0:00.0	The Lord be with you.
0:03.6	A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.
0:07.6	Chapter 10 verses 1 through 10.
0:11.2	Jesus said, Amen, amen, I say to you,
0:15.5	whoever does not enter of sheepfold through the gate,
0:18.0	but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber.
0:21.6	But whoever enters through the gate
0:23.4	is the shepherd of the sheep.
0:25.7	The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice.
0:29.1	As the shepherd calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
0:33.3	When he has driven out all his own, he walks ahead of them,
0:35.9	and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.
0:40.0	But they will not follow a stranger.
0:42.2	They will run away from him because they do not recognize
0:45.0	the voice of strangers.
0:47.3	Although Jesus used this figure of speech,
0:49.1	the Pharisees did not realize what he was trying to tell them.
0:51.4	So Jesus said again, Amen, amen, I say to you,
0:56.5	I am the gate for the sheep.
0:58.9	All who came before me are thieves and robbers.
1:02.7	But the sheep did not listen to them.
1:05.4	I am the gate.
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