1/1/23 Hold, Reflect, and Remember

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 31 December 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God.

Mary, the Mother of God is the model for how to live well.

Mary is the Mother of God because the baby in her womb was the Second Person of the Trinity. She also shows us how to leave last year in the past and step into the New Year wisely.

Mass Readings from January 1, 2023:
Numbers 6:22-27
Psalms 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8
Galatians 4:4-7

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sunday Homelies with me, Father Mike Schmitz.
0:04.6	I hope today's homelie inspires and motivates you, and I also hope that it leaves you hungry
0:09.4	for the one who gave everything to feed you.
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0:28.3	God Bless.
0:30.3	The Lord be with you.
0:32.3	And with your spirit.
0:32.3	A reading from the Holy Gospel, according to Luke.
0:36.3	Chapter 2 verses 16-21
0:40.3	The shepherds went in haste to Bethlehem and found Mary in Joseph and the infant lying in a manger.
0:46.3	When they saw this, they made known the message that had been told them about the child,
0:50.9	all who heard it were amazed by what had been told them by the shepherds, and Mary kept
0:56.0	all these things, reflecting on them in her heart.
0:59.6	Then the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen
1:03.8	just as it had been told to them.
1:06.0	When eight days were completed for his circumcision, he was named Jesus, the name given him by the angel
1:12.5	before he was conceived in the womb.
1:14.5	The Gospel of the Lord.
1:16.5	So as we, as I just, enter into this, we'll have a new year.
1:24.2	One of the things when it comes to the ends of the years, the beginnings of new years,
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