10/30/22 Alteration or Transformation?

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 29 October 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Zacchaeus knew that he was a bad man. What he didn't know was if he could be different.

Too many of us come to Jesus with the idea that He is willing to change us and change our lives. But what happens when we want Him to merely offer cosmetic changes and He wants to make structural changes?

Mass Readings from October 30, 2022:
Wisdom 11:22-12:2
Psalms 145:1-2, 8-11, 13-14
2 Thessalonians 1:11-2:2

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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.
0:33.0	And reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.
0:36.8	Chapter 19 verses 1 through 10.
0:39.6	At that time Jesus came to Jericho and intended to pass through the town.
0:43.6	Now a man there named Zacchaeus, who was chief tax collector, and also a wealthy man,
0:48.2	was seeking to see who Jesus was, but he could not see him because of the crowd
0:51.4	for he was short in stature.
0:53.5	So he ran ahead and climbed a sickamortry in order to see Jesus who was about to pass that way.
0:58.2	When he reached the place, Jesus looked up and said,
1:01.4	Zacchaeus, come down quickly.
1:03.8	For today I must stay at your house.
1:06.5	And he came down quickly and received him with joy.
1:09.4	When they all saw this, they began to grumble, saying,
1:12.1	he has gone to stay at the house of a sinner.
1:14.9	But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord,
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