11/04/18 Come to the Altar: Where's Your Altar?

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Not to watch, but to worship.

The heart of religion is the worship of God. And the heart of worship is always sacrifice; a gift that is poured out on the altar. Where is your gift being poured out? Where is your altar?

Mass Readings from November 04, 2018:
Deuteronomy 6:2-6
Psalms 18:2-4, 47, 51
Hebrews 7:23-28

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Father Mike.
0:02.0	I hope that this upcoming series is a blessing to you.
0:05.8	It is called Come to the Alter and it is all about the fact that we as Catholics are called
0:11.9	to worship God in a very unique but very powerful way.
0:15.1	I hope this is a blessing for you for the next four weeks.
0:18.6	Speaking of blessing, if this podcast has been a blessing to you, if this ministry has
0:22.0	been a blessing to you, I just want to, I guess, I don't know, humbly ask you if you wouldn't
0:28.6	mind praying if the Lord is asking you to bless us with either financial gift or your prayers.
0:36.6	This upcoming November 15th, it's a Thursday.
0:39.3	We have this thing called Give to the Max Day.
0:41.3	It's kind of this statewide here in Minnesota, a statewide fundraising day, a development
0:47.5	day.
0:48.5	I don't know what you would call it, but for those of us who really rely essentially
0:52.3	upon the gift, the generosity of people who believe in our ministry, this is the day
1:00.9	that basically we try to do our best to fundraise what we need for the year.
1:08.4	If you're at all interested, you can go to givemmn.org.
1:13.0	That's MN is in Minnesota, givemmn.org and just go up, you click on the search and you type
1:17.8	in Newman.
1:18.8	We're going to be the second group probably.
1:20.7	There's a young man who is featured right now, at least currently, he's featured as our
1:26.2	kind of our thumbnail.
1:28.2	He's a great young man.
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