09/27/20 How Do I Look? Change Your Mind

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

If you can choose your thoughts you can change your thoughts.

In the garden of the mind, our thoughts are constantly growing. Some we want, others we do not. As the gardeners of our own minds, we must think about what we think about, weed out the thoughts that poison our minds, and allow the Word of God to shape how we look.

Mass Readings from September 27, 2020:
Ezekiel 18:25-28
Psalms 25:4-9
Philippians 2:1-11

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0:00.0	So I recently came across this story of this young woman who,
0:07.0	she had a rare eye condition and part of this eye condition,
0:11.0	she had 2400 vision.
0:13.0	So like 2200 vision is considered legally blind.
0:17.0	I guess 2400 vision is that she can see at 20 feet,
0:20.0	what most people can see at 400 feet.
0:23.0	So, or vice versa, right? That kind of thing.
0:25.0	So basically, legally blind, plus a ton.
0:27.0	And just this, you know, this, this blindness,
0:30.0	she experienced her entire life.
0:32.0	And then she got this device or these glasses,
0:34.0	she was able to put on, and she was able to see clearly.
0:37.0	She was able to see everything.
0:38.0	In fact, at one point, she puts them on.
0:40.0	She turns to her dad, and she's just looking all over the house.
0:42.0	She's looking at everything.
0:44.0	And she has this like exclamation of, like she says,
0:47.0	so is this, this is how you see all the time.
0:50.0	And she's like, yes, and just this joy of being able to look at everything.
0:54.0	She wanted to look at everything.
0:55.0	It wasn't like, to put on these glasses on this device,
0:57.0	and she could kind of see some things new.
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