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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

06/13/21 Everyday Courage

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Everyday courage simply does what is necessary.

Courage is not merely needed for the big moments of life, but is required for each moment of a life well-lived. Courage is all of the other virtues the moment they are needed the most.

Mass Readings from June 13, 2021:
Ezekiel 17:22-24
Psalm 92:2-3, 13-16
2 Corinthians 5:6-10

Mark 4:26-34

Transcript

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Man, we got some weather going on outside, hopefully the storm doesn't knock out our cameras,

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but back in 1972, they're in Poland.

0:12.2

There's a young man, he was only 24 years old, but he was ordained a priest at 24, which

0:16.4

is remarkable to me.

0:17.4

I just think that's incredible.

0:19.2

He took the name Father Jerzy, Father Jerzy Popolevsky was his name.

0:23.6

And the Father Jerzy had been raised under Communist rule, obviously, the Communist had

0:28.9

invaded Poland and they oppressed the Polish people his entire life.

0:34.4

He gets ordained at 24 and 1972.

0:37.1

And one of his first assignments was he was assigned to be a chaplain basically to the

0:40.4

steelworkers there in the town in which he lived.

0:43.6

And it's really cool.

0:45.0

He just really entered into what it was to be one of the steelworkers.

0:48.7

He learned how to do all the things that they did.

0:50.8

He learned to live how they lived.

0:52.6

And one of the things he also saw was he saw what they had to endure, not just when it

0:57.0

came to work, but what they had to endure.

0:58.9

As workers under what was called the Workers Movement, under what was called under the

1:03.3

Communists, to the Teleitarian regime.

1:07.8

Of course he had lived that way.

1:09.0

He grew up in a farm.

1:12.5

But he had recognized that here is the evils of Communism and the way in which Communism

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