10/23/22 Growing Through the Motions: Busy or Productive?

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 22 October 2022

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Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Nothing is so worthless as working hard on the wrong things.

We can all be so busy, but are we productive? Are we doing things right or are we doing the right things? When it comes to growing through the motions, we need to make sure that the right thing we do is present ourselves before God with humility and not self-reliance.

Mass Readings from October 23, 2022:
Sirach 35:12-14, 16-18
Psalms 34:2-3, 17-19, 23
2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18

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0:00.0	The Lord be with you.
0:01.2	And with your spirit.
0:02.4	Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.
0:05.0	The Holy Spirit.
0:07.0	Chapter 18 verses 9 through 14.
0:09.9	Jesus addressed this parable to those
0:11.6	who were convinced of their own righteousness
0:13.6	and despised everyone else.
0:15.7	Two people went up to the temple area to pray.
0:17.9	One was a Pharisee, in the other was a tax collector.
0:20.8	The Pharisee took up his position
0:22.2	and spoke this prayer to himself.
0:24.6	Oh God, I thank you that I'm not like
0:26.6	the rest of humanity.
0:28.1	Did we see a treaty, dishonest, adulterous,
0:31.3	or even like this tax collector?
0:33.5	I fast twice a week and I pay tithes on my whole income.
0:38.6	But the tax collector stood off at a distance
0:41.3	and would not even raise his eyes to heaven.
0:43.6	But beat his breast and prayed,
0:45.6	oh God, be merciful to me as sinner.
0:49.0	I tell you, the ladder went home justified,
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