10/26/25 I Got Nothin'

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 25 October 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Nothing to Offer. Nothing to Prove. Nothing to Hide.

When we stand before the gates of Heaven and we are asked why we should be let in...what is our answer? How would we approach Heaven? How do we approach God now? We might approach God with our resume, or as an audition, or with perfection...but we need to approach in a different way.

Mass Readings from October 26, 2025:
Sirach 35:12-14, 16-18
Psalm 34:2-3, 17-18, 19, 23
2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18

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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.
0:31.6	And with your spirit.
0:32.8	A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.
0:36.2	According to you, Lord.
0:37.7	Chapter 18 verses 9 through 14.
0:40.9	Jesus addressed this parable to those who are convinced of their own righteousness
0:44.7	and despised everyone else.
0:47.8	Two people went up to the temple area to pray.
0:50.7	One was a Pharisee, and one was a tax collector.
0:54.1	The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself.
0:57.6	Oh, God, I thank you that I'm not like the rest of humanity, greedy, dishonest, adulterous, or even like this tax collector.
1:05.5	I fast twice a week, and I pay tithes on my whole income.
1:10.0	But the tax collector stood off at a distance and
1:13.5	would not even raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast and prayed, O God, be merciful to me a sinner.
1:21.0	I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former, for whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles
1:29.3	himself will be exalted. The gospel of the Lord.
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