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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

10/27/19 CompariSIN: The Way of Comparison

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 27 October 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

In a life of comparison, every person is a potential threat.

Comparison is the desire to be “more” than another. At the heart of that desire is fear. Vulnerability breaks through that fear.

Mass Readings from Mass Readings from October 27, 2019:</
Sirach 35:12-14, 16-18
Psalms 34:2-3, 17-18, 19, 23
2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18

Luke 18:9-14

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0:00.0

So I recently started reading a little bit more about Teddy Roosevelt, right?

0:07.5

So former president, that's the Teddy Roosevelt I'm talking about.

0:10.7

Just like this guy had an incredible life.

0:12.9

If you've ever read anything or studied anything about Teddy Roosevelt and his life, he started

0:16.2

out his life, he was a kid.

0:18.9

By all accounts, he was a really sick kid, he was a really weak kid, he was a really scared

0:23.2

kid, he was just always afraid of everything.

0:25.1

And he talks about this, he's like, I was scared of Malanchado that I would not do, and

0:28.7

also he was incapable of doing almost anything physical.

0:31.7

And so as like an elementary school-aged kid, he just decided I don't want to live like

0:35.8

this.

0:36.8

Like I found it, I'm weak and I don't want to be weak anymore.

0:39.3

So if I'm going to train my body, so he started doing this, he's like, I'm sick, I don't

0:43.9

want to be sick anymore.

0:44.9

So if something like people say that's going to make you sick, I'm just going to do it.

0:47.7

Anyways, to see how bad, how bad could it be anyways?

0:50.0

He said, I'm afraid and I don't want to be afraid anymore.

0:52.6

So if something scared him, he decided that I'm going to do that thing.

0:56.6

And because he just lived this life like this, he just ended up living this incredible, incredible

1:00.8

life.

1:01.8

Not only his body, he also trained his mind.

1:03.4

Legend is, the story is that he would read a book a day before breakfast and then three

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