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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

08/23/20 Influencer

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

Ascension

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🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.

The Church has influence even when it isn’t considered important.

We can often confuse influence with importance; authority with power. But the Church has been given the very influence and authority of Jesus Christ. Even when the world does not listen to the voice of the Church, She still has the influence and authority of Jesus.

Mass Readings from August 23, 2020:
Isaiah 22:19-23
Psalms 138:1-3, 6, 8
Romans 11:33-36

Matthew 16:13-20

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0:00.0

So I've been thinking recently about, I don't know if you go on social media, you occasionally

0:05.8

will come across these things of like, it's not, you've heard of the term influencer,

0:11.6

of course, right?

0:12.6

That's the thing is like, I have to say, I don't know how do I say this.

0:16.9

So if you are on Instagram, you're on YouTube, if you're on any of those social media kind

0:21.3

of platforms, a lot of times people consider you to be an influencer or they, that's not

0:25.9

so bad.

0:27.0

Kind of annoying to me is when people say, I'm kind of, I'm an influencer, so it has

0:30.6

an influencer, here's my product or whatever the thing is, like whenever when someone

0:33.6

claims it for themselves, it seems to really, doesn't seem weird to you or maybe it doesn't,

0:36.5

maybe you're like, no, it's totally normal.

0:38.1

It always bothers me.

0:39.2

Like when someone's like, well, has an influencer, I have a responsibility to blah, blah, blah.

0:43.0

And I guess, okay, let me disclaimer.

0:48.6

That's good in so far as it goes, right?

0:50.3

Because in so far as someone's taking responsibility and saying, okay, I have a responsibility.

0:54.2

Or what I say, I have a responsibility for what I do, I have a responsibility for the

0:58.2

influence that I've been given or the power that I've been given.

1:01.5

That's not a bad thing, obviously.

1:04.5

But too often I think we can flate influence with importance.

1:11.4

Or we make the same thing like, influence is having power.

1:14.6

That's as well as what it is to have influence.

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