08/29/21 Living in Later?

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Am I doing “everything but”?

Often we avoid doing what is essential by filling our lives with many things that are optional.

Mass Readings from August 29, 2021:
Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8
Psalms 15:2-5
James 1:17-18, 21-22, 27

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0:00.0	So, if you know me, you know that I am a really, really big NBA fan.
0:07.6	I mean, I live in Breed basketball.
0:10.9	If you don't know me, that's a joke.
0:13.9	But there's the debate that always comes up.
0:16.9	If anyone talking about the NBA, the debate is always who's the greatest?
0:21.2	And typically, who's the greatest NBA player of all time?
0:25.0	Typically three names come to the surface, right?
0:26.4	You have Michael, you have Kobe, and you have that one other guy.
0:29.9	From Cleveland, we don't say his name out loud.
0:32.8	Anyways, I don't think, you know, again, as I said, I'm not an expert in NBA.
0:38.1	I'm not an expert in basketball at all, but I think all of those, I mean, they're good.
0:41.9	Don't get me wrong.
0:43.0	They're decent.
0:43.9	But they're not the greatest.
0:45.0	The greatest NBA player of all time is a man named Greg.
0:47.8	It was Greg Wittington.
0:49.6	Greg Wittington is a six foot eight power forward to play for the Denver Nuggets.
1:02.9	The greatest basketball player, greatest NBA player of all time.
1:07.4	Welcome back to him in a second.
1:08.8	But, you know, this season, right now, people coming back to campus, people coming back to
1:13.3	start school again, gets me thinking, as I mentioned before, about commencement speeches,
1:17.2	about just graduation features.
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