10/2/22 Growing Through the Motions: Passion or Duty?

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 1 October 2022

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Summary

Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Duty is not the enemy.

So much of life is doing our duty. Doing what we are supposed to do. And yet, there are times when this means that we only “go through the motions”. There is a chance for us to do more however…we can choose to grow.

Mass Readings from October 2, 2022:
Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4
Psalms 95:1-2, 6-9
2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sunday Homelies with me, Father Mike Schmitz.
0:04.6	I hope today's homelie inspires and motivates you, and I also hope that it leaves you hungry
0:09.4	for the one who gave everything to feed you.
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0:28.3	God bless.
0:30.4	The Lord be with you.
0:33.1	He reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.
0:37.4	Chapter 17 verses 5-10.
0:41.0	The apostles said to the Lord,
0:43.1	increase our faith.
0:45.3	The Lord replied,
0:46.5	if you have faith the size of a mustard seed,
0:49.0	you would say to this mulberry tree,
0:50.8	be uprooted and planted in the sea, and it would obey you.
0:55.2	Who among you would say to your servant who has just come in from plowing or tending
0:58.0	the sheep in the field, come here immediately and take your place at table.
1:02.4	Would he not rather say to him,
1:03.8	prepare something for me to eat, put on your apron, and wait on me while I eat and drink.
1:09.2	You may eat and drink when I'm finished.
1:11.9	Is he grateful to that servant because he did what he was commanded?
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