06/15/25 Pillar and Foundation: Necessary Teacher
Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
Ascension
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🗓️ 14 June 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Homily from the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.
Even when the Bible seems clear, earnest Christians can get it wrong. We need a Church to tell us when we are wrong.
The most important revelation of God is His own identity. From the beginning, Christians have needed more than the words of Sacred Scripture to guide them into all truth. We have needed the Holy Spirit leading the Church through error to know the depths of God's identity.
- Mass Readings from June 15, 2025:
- Proverbs 8:22-31
- Psalm 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9
- Romans 5:1-5
John 16:12-15
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sunday homilies with me, Father Mike Schmitz. I hope today's homily inspires and motivates you, |
| 0:07.6 | and I also hope that it leaves you hungry for the one who gave everything to feed you. |
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| 0:28.3 | God bless. |
| 0:30.2 | The Lord be with you. |
| 0:31.4 | And with your spirit. |
| 0:32.7 | In reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke. |
| 0:35.6 | Lord, to your Lord. |
| 0:37.5 | Chapter 9 verses 11 through 17. |
| 0:41.4 | Jesus spoke to the crowds about the kingdom of God, and he healed those who needed to be cured. |
| 0:47.4 | As the day was drawing to a close, the 12 approached him and said, dismiss the crowd |
| 0:52.1 | so that they can go to the surrounding villages and farms |
| 0:54.9 | and find lodging and provisions, for we are in a deserted place here. He said to them, |
| 1:00.5 | give them some food yourselves. They replied, five loaves and two fish are all we have, |
| 1:05.5 | unless we ourselves go and buy food for all these people. Now the men there numbered about |
| 1:09.7 | 5,000. Then he said to his disciples, |
| 1:13.0 | have them sit down in groups of 50. They did so. And made them all sit down. Then taking the five loaves |
| 1:19.6 | and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing over them, broke them, and gave them |
| 1:24.6 | to the disciples to set before the crowd. They all ate and were satisfied. |
| 1:30.0 | And when the leftover fragments were picked up, they filled 12 wicker baskets. The gospel of the Lord. |
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