08/01/21 Consumer Catholic: Choose God.

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Choose God over the works of God.

The signs point to Jesus and Jesus is the point of the signs. When we are challenged to merely consume… When we are challenged to want the gifts more than the Giver of the gift, we must allow ourselves to be trained in a trust in God. To be trained in freedom.

Mass Readings from August 1, 2021:
Exodus 16:2-4, 12-15
Psalms 78:3-4, 23-25, 54
Ephesians 4:17, 20-24

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0:00.0	So I don't know if you ever did this when you're growing up.
0:04.2	If you went over to someone's house, because like they had something in their house that
0:09.2	you didn't have in your house, like, I don't know, maybe they had cable and you didn't
0:13.6	have cable.
0:14.6	Maybe your mom didn't let you have MTV and so they had MTV and their parents actually
0:19.4	even let them watch MTV.
0:20.8	Maybe because their mom were actually cooked really well.
0:22.6	I've never done anything like that.
0:23.8	I've never gone over to Pete Shreupinter's house because he had an e-walk village from
0:27.7	Return of the Jedi just to play with it, not because I wanted to.
0:30.4	But maybe someone did that to you.
0:32.9	Maybe that's that situation.
0:33.9	Someone can do that to us, right?
0:34.9	They came over to our house, not because they wanted to be our friend, but because we had
0:38.4	something.
0:39.4	A swing set, a playground, or whatever.
0:41.0	I don't know, making stuff up.
0:44.4	Whether or not choosing us, they're choosing the stuff we have.
0:46.8	We didn't choose them.
0:47.8	We were just choosing the stuff that they had.
0:51.0	And it, bring this up because that's what we see in the gospel today.
0:54.2	It's so clear.
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