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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 7 January 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Mass of the Epiphany of the Lord.

The best thing we can do.

While we are certainly human "beings", we are also meant to "do". The most important thing we can do is LOVE. And the most important One we can love is God. We love God in a number of ways, the principle of which is through worship.

Mass Readings from January 8, 2023:
Isaiah 60:1-6
Psalms 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-13
Ephesians 3:2-3, 5-6

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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.
0:30.6	The Lord be with you.
0:31.8	With your spirit.
0:32.8	I'm reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew.
0:35.3	Glory to you, Lord.
0:37.3	Chapter 2 verses 1 through 12.
0:40.3	When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod, behold, Magi from
0:45.7	the East arrived in Jerusalem saying, where is the newborn King of the Jews?
0:50.0	We saw his star at its rising and have come to do him homage.
0:53.8	When King Herod heard this, he was greatly troubled, in all Jerusalem with him.
0:58.2	Assembling all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, he inquired of them where
1:01.9	the Christ was to be born.
1:03.8	They said to him, in Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it has been written through the prophet
1:08.8	and you Bethlehem, land of Judah, or by no means least among the rulers of Judah, since
1:13.7	from you shall come a ruler who is to shepherd my people Israel.
1:18.1	Then Herod called the Magi secretly and ascertained from them the time of the stars' appearance.
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