05/08/22 The Time of Great Distress

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter.

You are not abandoned. You are not alone. You are not afraid.

Our lives are marked by stress. Not only is stress unavoidable, it is necessary. The main question is: what is our response to stress?

Mass Readings from May 8, 2022:
Acts 13:14, 43-52
Psalms 100:1-3, 5
Revelation 7:9, 14-17

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0:00.0	So if this is a season of anything, this is the season of stress.
0:05.0	And if you have to bring it up, you have to bring it out into there.
0:08.0	That's the only way to get past it.
0:10.0	We had the UMD finals last week.
0:12.0	You might be someone tonight, you're still in town.
0:14.0	If you go to UMD because you got an extension, which was nice for a second.
0:18.0	Not nice anymore because you're like, oh, everyone else is done.
0:21.0	No, I'm not. Or maybe CSS.
0:23.0	LSC, you have tests to come.
0:24.0	Or even if you're not even in college.
0:26.0	Because here's one of the things I found.
0:28.0	Stress doesn't end when you graduate so weird, so weird.
0:32.0	Like work stress or transition stress.
0:34.0	Or like, I'll talk to so many graduates who are like,
0:37.0	either looking for work and they're stressed about that.
0:39.0	Or like, have a job, they're stressed about that.
0:41.0	They're moving town, they're stressed about that.
0:42.0	They're staying in town, they're stressed about that.
0:44.0	There's all these challenges and all these changes and all this stress.
0:47.0	And it's real.
0:51.0	So let's talk about the second reading.
0:52.0	So in the second reading, it's going to go back.
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