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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

08/22/21 Consumer Catholic: The Church of Me

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Everything I like and nothing that I don't.

The temptation to create a God in our own image and have a church in our own image is strong. But God has revealed Himself to us, which means we either choose Him…or we choose “not Him.” We don’t get to create our own personally curated version.

Mass Readings from August 22, 2021:
Joshua 24:1-2, 15-18
Psalms 34:2-3, 16-21
Ephesians 5:21-32

John 6:60-69

Transcript

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So, one of my first jobs, like the real job, like the W2, you have to fill that out, not

0:07.0

like Moenglons, where it was all under the table, off the books.

0:10.1

But like one of my first jobs was working in Niswa, at what was then referred to as the

0:14.9

Niswa Country Store, but is currently referred to as the Chocolat Ocs, which you probably

0:19.0

understand, right?

0:20.0

So, it was an incredible opportunity to work in an ice cream shop and a candy store.

0:26.0

I'm in an ice cream shop.

0:27.0

I'm in a candy store.

0:28.0

I'm in a combination ice cream shop in a candy store.

0:30.8

Some of you get that one person here, it gets that.

0:35.0

It's never mind, moving on.

0:37.4

So, one of the great things about working at the Niswa Country Store, or today's chocolate

0:41.7

Ocs, is when you go in, it's the best.

0:46.5

Because what happens is, if you have kind parents or kind grandparents, or if you are a kind

0:50.7

parent, a kind grandparent, what you say to your grandchild or to your child, do you say,

0:55.4

okay, you get a bag and you get a bag and you get a bag.

0:58.2

And the person behind the counter, me, got to say, I can make your day.

1:01.5

Whatever you want, I'll put in the bag and then we'll wait up.

1:04.0

And then that's what you'll get.

1:05.0

And I even write their name on the bag like this belongs to Katherine, this belongs to

1:08.6

Heidi, this belongs to Sophia.

1:10.1

And you, everyone gets their bag.

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