10/18/20 Roadmap: Be A Saint

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

The roadmap begins with “Who.”

There is one true goal in life: to be a saint. Many of us believe this, but is there a path? Without a plan, we will certainly fail to hit the goal. Without a roadmap, we will spend our time on this planet wandering as if we neither know where we are or where we are going.

Mass Readings from October 18, 2020:
Isaiah 45:1, 4-6
Psalms 96:1, 3-5, 7-10
1 Thessalonians 1:1-5

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0:00.0	So that question at the beginning of Mass,
0:03.4	what's one thing you want to be true about you?
0:10.1	Soon.
0:12.3	I don't know.
0:13.2	I love goals.
0:14.4	I love having a vision.
0:16.4	I love trying to accomplish a task, accomplish a plan.
0:21.6	And I think it's really important for us at some point
0:24.7	to have that, to have a vision that's big enough,
0:27.0	a goal that's big enough for your life.
0:29.3	Like a goal that's big enough to actually devote yourself to.
0:33.9	So I mean, I don't know what you guys said you wanted to do.
0:36.4	I think that, you know, someone could say,
0:37.5	I want to, you know, by the time I turn,
0:39.2	whatever age I want to run a marathon,
0:41.2	or I want to have, I read the classics, right?
0:43.9	I want to read great books.
0:44.8	By the time I turn 30, I want to have like all the great
0:46.8	classics read, or I want to play the guitar
0:49.1	by the time I'm 25, that kind of thing of like,
0:51.2	maybe I want to travel somewhere.
0:52.6	Like I want to go to Africa, or I want to go to the Holy Land.
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