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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

05/16/21 You Will Be Martyrs

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

Ascension

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🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Mass of the Ascension of the Lord.

Nice is different than good.

Jesus doesn't call us to simply be "nice people." Jesus promises to send the Holy Spirit so that we can be more than we are now...so that we can do more than we can do now. Jesus sends His Holy Spirit so that we can have the strength to be the kind of people who can bear witness to Him and His love in this world. He gives His Spirit so that people can be saved and God can be glorified.

Mass Readings from May 16, 2021:
Acts 1:1-11
Psalms 47:2-3, 6-9
Ephesians 1:17-23

Mark 16:15-20

Transcript

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So, back in high school, I was introduced to a musical and not the high school musical.

0:07.5

That came a much later.

0:09.5

Into the woods was this, like, it was the first time I remember, the first time I ever

0:12.5

listened to the soundtrack, I ever watched the musical into the woods was in high school.

0:16.4

And it just blew me away because I was just, it was fun.

0:19.3

There were good songs.

0:20.3

It was super creative.

0:21.3

Like the way they would weave the different singers, like singing the same lines, the way

0:26.2

they weave these stories together basically.

0:27.9

It's retelling of all these different fairy tales that we're familiar with.

0:31.5

And the first time I ever came across the whole notion of, okay, what happens after,

0:36.5

like what happens after Prince Charming rescues Cinderella or his brother rescues Rapunzel?

0:41.2

What happens after Jack Custon to Beanstalk?

0:43.0

What happens basically the question, what happens after Happily Ever After?

0:47.0

And I'd never seen that before.

0:48.0

No, of course, people, kids nowadays, but people nowadays, they have grown up with this.

0:53.0

You grew up with Shrek and you're like, oh yeah, that's kind of old hat.

0:56.2

But for me, I had never ever seen it before and I thought it was so cool.

1:00.3

It was this whole new insight for me.

1:01.7

But another thing that was a massive insight from that musical was this one line that they

1:06.1

sing a couple times during the course of the story.

1:10.8

And the line is, nice is different than good.

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