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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

10/17/21 Learning to Lose: Winner or Witness?

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Life isn't about power, it is about being poured out.

The world sees life as being about winning. And to win is to gain power and influence. If a person wins they get power, and with that power they can re-shape the world as they see fit. But a Christian view of winning is different. Life is not about power, it is about being poured out. Life isn't about winning, it is about witnessing.

Mass Readings from October 17th, 2021:
Isaiah 53:10-11
Psalms 33:4-5, 18-20, 22
Hebrews 4:14-16

Mark 10:35-45

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0:00.0

So, I'm not sure.

0:05.0

You know sometimes when you're finding yourself repeating yourself, like when you get old,

0:08.1

this is what happens all the time.

0:09.3

Like you know your dad tells the same stories over and over.

0:11.9

So I don't know how many times I have brought this up, but it's something I've been reflecting

0:16.2

on for the last couple years.

0:17.4

And it's the idea that I think that every young person at some point needs to be in sports.

0:24.0

Like at some point you need to be in sports.

0:25.7

Or if it's not sports you need to be in like competitive choir or like competitive band,

0:30.5

whatever that is.

0:31.5

Like something where you can get cut.

0:33.9

And not just because sports have discipline, they help you figure out how to really work

0:40.8

hard or because sports give you camaraderie and learn how to work on a team, that kind

0:44.4

of thing.

0:45.4

Those are all good and those are all things that exist.

0:47.5

But the reason why I think every single person should be in sports at some point in their

0:51.2

life, because sports almost like nothing else teach you how to lose.

0:55.6

I think the most important thing you can learn as an athlete is sports teach you how to

1:01.2

lose.

1:02.2

Because at some point no matter how good you are, you're going to lose.

1:07.2

That's why like competitive choir, competitive debate, competitive, whatever that thing is.

1:13.4

To learn how to lose is going to be really important.

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