08/04/24 The Most Important Sight

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 3 August 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

There are four kinds of vision...one is the most helpful.

We all want to see the world accurately. But most often, we fall into the blindness of being shortsighted. Then we want foresight so that we can know what will happen. Or hindsight so that we know what we've lived through. But God calls us to a newer sight. One that helps us get out of the desert by going through the desert.

Mass Readings from August 4, 2024:
Exodus 16:2-4, 12-15
Psalms 78:3-4, 23-24, 25, 54
Ephesians 4:17, 20-24

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sunday Homilies with me, Father Mike Schmitz.
0:04.4	I hope today's homily inspires and motivates you,
0:07.4	and I also hope that it leaves you hungry for the one who gave everything to feed you.
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0:28.0	God bless.
0:30.0	The Lord be with you.
0:32.0	A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John. The Lord be with you. And with your spirit.
0:33.0	A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.
0:37.0	Chapter 6 verses 24 through 35.
0:42.0	When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into boats, and came to Kapurnum looking for Jesus.
0:50.0	And when they found him across the sea, they said to him,
0:52.0	Rabbi, when did you get here? Jesus answered And when they found him across the sea they said to him,
0:52.5	Rabbi, when did you get here?
0:54.5	Jesus answered them and said, Amen.
0:57.2	Amen, I say to you,
0:58.8	you are looking for me not because you saw signs,
1:01.8	but because you ate the loaves and were filled. Do not work for food that
1:05.4	parishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life which the son of man
1:09.6	will give you. For on him the Father God has set his seal. So they said to him, what can we do to
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