09/26/21 Holding On: Patient and Ruthless

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

What if the biggest obstacle to being the person you were created to be is the person you are currently choosing to be?

There are things that we need to stop holding on to if we are going to allow Christ to change our lives. Often, we know exactly what those things are. The things that our hands reach for, our eyes look at, and our feet lead us to can the exact things that are keeping us from God.

Mass Readings from September 26, 2021:
Numbers 11:25-29
Psalms 19:8, 10, 12-14
James 5:1-6

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0:00.0	So here's kind of a riddle.
0:03.4	What are the following three things have in common?
0:07.3	A calendar, the yellow pages, and a video camera.
0:14.2	Here's more.
0:15.2	How about these three things?
0:16.2	An alarm clock, a notebook, and a flashlight.
0:21.2	Or this, a roadmap, a calculator, and a television.
0:28.5	This one.
0:29.5	A camera, a phone, and a computer.
0:33.6	You might already know this.
0:34.6	You guys are smart.
0:35.6	You already figured it out.
0:36.6	I'm not that clever.
0:37.6	This is what they have in common.
0:40.2	Every one of these things are in this little magical rectangle that I have in my hand right
0:43.4	now.
0:44.4	Every single one of these.
0:45.4	There's a roadmap, a calculator, a TV, a calendar, a yellow pages, video camera, alarm
0:48.0	clock, notebook, flashlight, camera, phone, computer.
0:50.4	It's all right here.
0:51.4	I don't know.
0:52.4	Whenever you believe that Apple computers, whether you like the brand, whether you dislike
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