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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

07/03/22 Be A Saint

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

Ascension

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🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

What else is there?

Many of us want to grow spiritually. But what does that really mean? What is it that we really want? What is the actual goal of life? Put in the words of Jesus, what should we truly rejoice in? Christ's answer is nothing less than having our names written in Heaven.

Mass Readings from July 3, 2022:
Isaiah 66:10-14
Psalms 66:1-7, 16, 20
Galatians 6:14-18

Luke 10:1-12, 17-20

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So one of the things I've been thinking about recently is, I think there are stories that

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we tell children.

0:07.4

They have some important truths to them.

0:08.8

That's why we tell these, that's why we tell them to kids because they have some kind

0:12.0

of truth to them.

0:13.3

Even like fairy tales and fables, because we want them to remember them.

0:18.6

We want them to know something critical and we want them to never forget this, but I

0:22.6

think even those kids' stories, those important kids' stories as adults, we're often tempted

0:28.2

to forget them and that we're going to come back to that in a second.

0:31.2

Speaking of kids, I guess most of them in a month or two months ago, I was invited to

0:36.3

kind of speak to a group of young professionals.

0:37.7

It was kind of a Catholic young professionals group down in the Twin Cities, St. Paul Minneapolis.

0:41.1

There were like 400, 500 of these young adults who showed up and it was a really cool event.

0:45.2

But at one point there was this Q&A and the Q&A was a lot of the questions were, okay,

0:49.8

here we are in the state and life and they were in all states.

0:52.6

Basically we just got in with college, if they went to college or the military.

0:56.4

Either single or they were dating someone, they were looking to be dating someone, they

1:00.3

were engaged, married, newly married, married with kids.

1:03.0

So it kind of a gamut of that particular demographic.

1:06.2

But the same question kept me asked, brother, we're single, whether we're married, whether

1:09.8

we have no kids or kids, whatever it is, the question was, how do we keep growing spiritually?

1:14.8

How do we, because a lot of them had a community in college, a lot of them had some kind of

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