06/26/22 The Call

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Deliberate. Decisive. Definitive.

God continues to call. God calls us to follow Him, making it clear that being a disciple is challenging...that it costs something. Therefore, we need to weigh out our response, we need to avoid hesitation, and we need to choose to follow Jesus in such a way that it actually changes something in our lives.

Mass Readings from June 26, 2022:
1 Kings 19:16, 19-21
Psalms 16:1-2, 5, 7-11
Galatians 5:1, 13-18

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0:00.0	So for like a big part of my life, I've been relatively interested in like polar exploration,
0:07.9	like journeying, especially journeying to the South Pole.
0:10.0	I think it's probably because I rolled Amincent as the first person to make it to the South
0:16.2	Pole.
0:17.2	My mom's maiden name is Amincent and I was like, okay, that's a connection.
0:19.8	He got there on my birthday.
0:21.4	I mean, different year, but the same thing, you know, and I was like, okay, I have this
0:24.2	kind of connection.
0:25.2	Also, Northern Minnesota, I'm ready to polar explore.
0:29.3	Like this is the kind of thing.
0:30.5	And so you have people like Roll Damans and you have people like Ernest Shackleton.
0:33.7	I don't know if you've ever read any of those stories about like, so Roll Damans and he
0:37.6	planned out his trip really, really well.
0:39.5	Everyone made it back alive.
0:40.9	Shackleton kind of different.
0:42.9	But there's a story, this kind of legend, a story that's become legend about Shackleton.
0:47.0	He was planning one of these polar explorations all the way down to Antarctica and the legend
0:50.7	is that at one point he took out this advertisement in a London newspaper to recruit people to come
0:57.2	with him to the South Pole.
1:00.1	And the advertisement said this.
1:02.2	He said this.
1:03.2	Men wanted for hazardous journey.
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