07/31/22 Then What?

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Time and Death make most of what we live for hevel.

We are preoccupied with "done", but we are simultaneously addicted to asking "then what?". The wisdom of Ecclesiastes notes that so much of what we live for is impermanent, passing, or meaningless. Yet Jesus reveals that there is a real meaning and a real hope.

Mass Readings from July 31, 2022:
Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23
Psalms 90:3-6, 12-14 and 17
Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11

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0:00.0	So, I kind of have this, I know, not obsession.
0:04.8	And the obsession is the wrong word.
0:05.9	We're gonna use that word later on.
0:07.0	That's not obsession.
0:07.8	I really like underdog movies.
0:10.6	I really like comeback stories.
0:12.0	I think I'm like everyone else
0:13.1	because the underdog movies, the comeback stories
0:15.0	are the ones that everyone loves like Rocky underdog.
0:18.0	Here's Rudy, the story of Rudy Rudiger, right?
0:19.7	So this K2 grew up loving Notre Dame football.
0:22.9	Wanted to play Notre Dame football for his whole life
0:24.7	but he's too small, but he's like scrappy
0:26.6	and so he got in there.
0:27.4	He probably know the movie, you know the movie.
0:29.6	And he worked, he trained, got in the last play
0:33.2	of the last game that Notre Dame was playing
0:34.7	against Georgia Tech, his last opportunity.
0:36.4	And he got a tackle, kind of this big thing
0:38.0	got carried off the field Rudy.
0:39.2	It's a real story, true story.
0:40.5	Remember the Titans?
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