09/24/23 Tough Love: Receive and Rejoice

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 23 September 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

We choose our rivals.

We are all confronted with the temptation towards resentment, when we see the blessings or gifts that others have. This temptation towards envy can be overcome when we choose to receive the gifts we’ve been given with gratitude, and choose to rejoice in the gift of others.

Mass Readings from September 24, 2023:
Isaiah 55:6-9
Psalms 145:2-3, 8-9, 17-18
Philippians 1:20c-24, 27a

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sunday Homelies with me, Father Mike Schmitz.
0:04.7	I hope today's homelie inspires and motivates you, and I also hope that it leaves you hungry
0:09.5	for the one who gave everything to feed you.
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0:28.4	God bless.
0:30.2	The Lord be with you.
0:32.5	You're reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew.
0:37.2	Chapter 20 verses 1 through 16.
0:40.7	Jesus told his disciples this parable.
0:43.4	The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard.
0:48.2	After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard.
0:52.3	Going out about nine o'clock, the landowner saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
0:56.1	and he said to them, you two go into my vineyard, and I will give you what is just.
1:00.6	So they went off.
1:02.0	And he went out again around noon, and around three o'clock, and did likewise.
1:06.2	Going out around five o'clock, the landowner found others standing around, and he said to them,
1:10.4	why do you stand here idle all day?
1:12.4	The answer is, because no one has hired us.
1:15.1	He said to them, you two go into my vineyard.
1:17.9	When it was evening, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman,
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