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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

08/30/20 How Do I Look? "Lucky"

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Am I being conformed or transformed?

Christians must not only live differently in the world, we must look differently at the world.

Mass Readings from August 30, 2020:
Jeremiah 20:7-9
Psalms 63:2-6, 8-9
Romans 12:1-2

Matthew 16:21-27

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0:00.0

So, this is a story of this young girl.

0:06.6

She was born in Sudan in 1869.

0:11.0

She was part of the, I guess, the Daju people in Darfur, modern day area right now.

0:17.4

Her uncle was the tribal chief.

0:19.0

She had a relatively decent childhood.

0:22.0

She said that she has some memories of it and that they were largely pleasant.

0:26.7

But when she was eight years old, she was kidnapped by Arab slave traders.

0:34.0

In fact, she doesn't even remember her name.

0:37.6

She doesn't remember the name that her parents gave her.

0:40.2

But when she was captured by those Arab slave traders, they gave her her name.

0:44.2

They just named her lucky in their language.

0:46.6

They called her lucky.

0:47.6

She was kind of cruel.

0:51.6

They made her immediately at eight years old walk 600 miles from her village to where they

0:56.8

were going to buy and sell her 600 miles barefoot.

1:00.8

Eight years old.

1:01.8

For the next 12 years, she was bought and sold and given away at least a dozen times.

1:06.5

And one of her owners was the, this Turkish general and his wife, whatever reason, she took

1:13.1

the light in torturing lucky.

1:15.0

Like on a regular basis, she would take a knife or blade and carve designs into Lucky's flesh.

1:25.1

And then she would rub salt into those wounds to, I think you can imagine this, this cruelty.

1:30.0

She would rub salt into those wounds not only to make them hurt more, but so that they wouldn't

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