10/19/25 Moments of Consequence
Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
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🗓️ 20 October 2025
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Summary
Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Persist through severity.
There are big moments in our lives. We usually think of the beginning or the end of something as the moments of consequence. But the middle often holds the most impactful moments of consequence; times when we are called to persevere...to "remain faithful" to the decisions we have made.
Mass Readings from October 19, 2025: Exodus 17:8-13 Psalm 121:1-82 Timothy 3:14-4:2Luke 18:1-8
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sunday homilies with me, Father Mike Schmitz. I hope today's homily inspires and motivates you, |
| 0:07.6 | and I also hope that it leaves you hungry for the one who gave everything to feed you. |
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| 0:28.3 | God bless. |
| 0:29.9 | The Lord be with you. |
| 0:32.5 | Are you reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke? |
| 0:37.2 | Chapter 18 verses 1 through 8. |
| 0:40.3 | Jesus told his disciples a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary. |
| 0:46.3 | He said, |
| 0:47.3 | There was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor respected any human being. |
| 0:52.3 | And a widow in that town used to come to him and say, |
| 0:55.1 | render a just decision for me against my adversary. For a long time, the judge was unwilling, |
| 1:00.7 | but eventually he thought, while it is true that I neither fear God, no respect any human being, |
| 1:06.2 | because this widow keeps bothering me, I shall deliver a just decision for her, lest she finally come and strike me. |
| 1:13.4 | The Lord said, |
| 1:15.0 | Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says. |
| 1:18.3 | Will not God secure the rights of his chosen ones who call out to him day and night? |
| 1:22.6 | Will he be slow to answer them? |
| 1:25.4 | I tell you, he will see to it that justice is done for them speedily. |
| 1:31.5 | But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth? The Gospel of the Lord. |
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