08/25/19 Hope and Discipline

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Discipline is the mark of the mature Christian.

We have to do difficult things all of the time. Why do we do them? We do them because we hope. We have the confidence that what we do makes a difference. The hope that, even when discipline becomes difficult, the discipline makes a difference.

Mass Readings from August 25, 2019:
Isaiah 66:18-21
Psalms 117:1-2
Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13

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0:00.0	So when it came to the question to beginning of a mask before a mask asked about something
0:06.8	difficult you've done or something hard you've done, I don't know if anyone mentioned
0:10.5	just going to college because I don't know if the last couple days have been one of those
0:15.6	like yeah this has been a really difficult time. I'm not going to show off hands. How many
0:19.6	hate your life right now? But one of those questions of like oh my gosh why does it seem
0:24.6	so hard because I was planning all summer actually maybe the last couple years like I can't
0:28.1	wait to leave home and go to dilute and you get here and it's like how can I how kind of
0:32.7	it's they can be hard and the question can come up like why is this so difficult and the
0:39.6	answer is really simple it's because it is that's just the answer because it's difficult
0:44.0	because that whole process of like I mean think about this we have asked people to do this
0:47.8	always okay leave everyone who knows you and who loves you and it cares about you and go to
0:52.3	a place where no one knows you no one loves you and no one cares we love you but like no one
0:56.4	cares it's like no wonder it seems hard because it is actually hard. No wonder it seems difficult
1:03.5	because it actually is difficult which brings up this question in my mind which is like why do we
1:07.3	do difficult things like why do why do we do things I mean doesn't it just have to be like leave
1:11.4	home and go to college why college why get your plan okay hopefully your plan is like actually
1:19.3	study here so why study like why like have all-nighters why have to write this whole paper why
1:24.8	it what take a class that I do not enjoy why do I get a job maybe you someday you might not enjoy
1:31.0	when if you're an athlete like why do that why do difficult things if you ever become a get married
1:37.6	like that's hard it's hard to get married that it's easy to get married hard to be married
1:42.9	having children like raising those that's there why do we as human beings do difficult things
1:48.5	it kind of just if I don't know if you've ever stopped and asked that question because you do
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