10/10/21 Holding On: Holding On to You

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

What you've been holding on to ends up holding on to you.

Anything can keep us from Heaven. Anything that we prefer over and over (and anything that we defer putting down over and over) can end up holding on to us. There are times when we've chosen so often that we no longer have a choice. And there are times when we have put off letting go so often that we can't put it down. And we find ourselves stuck. What do we hold on to then?

Mass Readings from October 10th, 2021:
Wisdom 7:7-11
Psalms 90:12-17
Hebrews 4:12-13

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0:00.0	So whenever I hear this gospel, it always takes me back to the time when I bought my first
0:08.3	car so I was in college and it was time to have my own car because everything I, I mean
0:12.7	up to that point everything I had ever owned, it was either not nice or it was not mine.
0:17.5	So you know I'm the fourth of six kids so basically my parents are like yeah you can
0:20.7	have your brothers whatever.
0:22.5	So I had a pretty sweet Sony disc man.
0:26.6	It was a disc man's sport so don't get jealous, you know it was pretty awesome.
0:29.9	But this was the first big purchase, it was the first thing again that it was going to
0:33.2	cost a lot and it was going to be mine and I remember I thought about the rich young
0:36.3	man because I was like okay this I'm going to have a thing.
0:40.5	I'm going to have a thing that that might be hard to get rid of.
0:42.7	I'm going to have a thing that is going to cost a lot and I remember thinking shoot I don't
0:47.1	want to lose my soul over this car because I mean you guys this was a 1993 Honda Civic.
0:57.0	You know it had no power windows, it had no power locks, it had no power steering, it had
1:01.8	no power brakes, it had no air conditioning but it had no it had no but it did have
1:07.7	AM and FM.
1:08.7	It did have a cassette deck and I didn't mention this it was a hatchback so you could see
1:13.2	like how I would be concerned about losing my soul over this kind of car.
1:16.9	In fact so it was looking a little roller skate, a little white roller skate.
1:20.1	My sister when she saw it she called it a little egg and I was like okay that's interesting
1:23.7	and I told one of my friends that you know my sister says that's the egg and she said
1:28.2	mmm it doesn't look like an egg or like a maggot.
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