09/01/19 Oh, Vanity
Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
Ascension
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🗓️ 1 September 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.
The high price of vanity.
It is easy to think of vanity as nothing more than being conceited or overly concerned about one’s appearance. But the vice of vanity comes at a cost: A person could even find themselves living someone else’s life.
- Mass Readings from September 1, 2019:
- Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29
- Psalms 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11
- Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24
Luke 14:1, 7-14
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| 0:00.0 | So, when I was growing up, my family once went on vacation. |
| 0:05.0 | It was unusual. Usually our vacation was not fancy. |
| 0:09.0 | We went on to cruise and it was really phenomenal. |
| 0:11.0 | I remember almost nothing about this cruise except for... |
| 0:15.0 | I remember almost no people from this cruise except for two people who stand out. |
| 0:20.0 | It's so weird. I was probably like 14 years old when we did this trip. |
| 0:23.0 | And there are these two human beings. They're a couple. |
| 0:26.0 | You ever see those couples that when you see them together, you're like, really? |
| 0:30.0 | How did that happen? Because someone's kind of outclassing the other. |
| 0:33.0 | You're a little bit like, huh, that's... |
| 0:36.0 | You're either punching way above your weight class. |
| 0:38.0 | You're kind of like, well, you're reaching for the top. |
| 0:40.0 | Or like, really? Is this kind of a charity thing? What's going on? |
| 0:43.0 | With the... |
| 0:46.0 | Kind of a jerk. |
| 0:48.0 | Sure. Right. The priest's jerk. I'm the only one who's ever noticed this. |
| 0:50.0 | We've all noticed this. This was not that case. |
| 0:52.0 | This was the case of like... |
| 0:54.0 | I don't know how to say this out there. They were two of the most attractive people I've ever seen in my entire life. |
| 0:58.0 | At least up to that point. And I was like, wow, you found each other. |
| 1:01.0 | It was one of those situations where I was like, yeah, that makes sense. |
| 1:05.0 | That's like, you were bred in a lab too. |
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