10/1/23 Tough Love: Because He Asked Me To

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 30 September 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

The freedom to love when you no longer feel like it.

The precondition for love is freedom. Both the freedom to say no and the freedom to say yes, regardless of passing moods or circumstances. Tough love is willing to choose the good because God asked us to and because we said we would.

Mass Readings from October 1, 2023:
Ezekiel 18:25-28
Psalms 25:4-9
Phillipians 2:1-11

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sunday Homilies with me, Father Mike Schmitz.
0:04.7	I hope today's homily 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.
0:32.8	You're reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew.
0:37.6	Chapter 21 verses 28 through 32.
0:41.3	Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people,
0:45.2	what is your opinion? A man had two sons.
0:48.3	He came to the first and said, son, go out and work in the vineyard today.
0:52.4	He said in reply, I will not, but afterwards changed his mind and went.
0:56.9	The man came to the other son and gave him the same order.
0:59.6	He said in reply, yes sir, but did not go.
1:03.7	Which of the two did his father's will?
1:06.4	They answered the first.
1:08.5	Jesus said to them, amen.
1:11.3	I say to you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you.
1:16.6	When John came to you in the way of righteousness, you did not believe him,
1:19.5	but tax collectors and prostitutes did.
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