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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Solemnity of the Ascension of our Lord.

What am I going to do with the gifts I've been given?

In the Ascension, Jesus completes the work of redemption. He has taken His once for all sacrifice, bound to time and place, and brought it before the Father. Because of this, we have access to all of God's graces in every time and every place.

Mass Readings from May 29, 2022:
Acts 1:1-11
Psalms 47:2-3, 6-9
Ephesians 1:17-23

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0:00.0	So as I mentioned at the beginning of Mass today or tomorrow is Memorial Day and it's just
0:07.6	whenever we have this feast, remember that this feast, essentially we're going to talk
0:12.7	about this in a second.
0:14.3	But to take a moment, even just to highlight the fact that this is Memorial Day weekend
0:17.6	and so many of us, so many of us, not just a three-day weekend, it's actually a moment
0:21.3	that we are given by our country to be able to commemorate and remember those people
0:25.8	who have given everything for our country.
0:29.7	So this Memorial Day weekend, my mind keeps going back to June 28th, 2005 and June 28th, 2005,
0:37.5	there was a four-man team of Navy SEALs who were deployed to Afghanistan and they were
0:42.2	on a recon mission, just basically scouting out the area and then they were attacked by
0:46.8	30 to 40 Taliban soldiers.
0:50.0	This story was made popular by a man named Marcus LaTrell.
0:53.0	He was the one SEAL who survived.
0:54.7	He was the lone survivor.
0:55.7	He wrote a book that made a movie called Loan Survivor.
0:59.2	That team was led by a man named Michael Murphy, Lieutenant Michael Murphy.
1:03.0	And on that day, as those men were attacked by those Taliban fighters, they returned
1:06.5	fire.
1:07.5	And just think about the way in which these men did everything they possibly could not
1:12.8	merely to stay alive but to help each other, to help their brothers.
1:17.6	One of the men, Danny Deats, he was in charge of the communications.
1:21.8	At one point, Danny Deats had broken both femurs.
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