11/09/25 Meant to Be

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 8 November 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome.

If you were what you were meant to be, you would set the world on fire.

There are some things that are dedicated...consecrated to be something special. They are meant to be something unique. Others merely used to be something unique. Which one am I?

Mass Readings from November 9, 2025:
Ezekiel 47:1-2, 8-9, 12
Psalm 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9
1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17

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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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0:25.0	subscribe on your podcast app for weekly notifications. God bless. The Lord be with you.
0:31.7	A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.
0:36.0	Glory to you. Lord.
0:39.6	Chapter 2, verses 13 through 22.
0:44.5	Since the Passover of the Jews was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
0:50.3	He found in the temple area those who sold oxen sheep and doves, as well as the money changers, seated there.
0:52.6	He made a whip out of cords, and drove them all out of the
0:55.5	temple area with the sheep and the oxen, and spilled the coins of the money changers and overturned their
0:59.9	tables. And to those who sold doves, he said, take these out of here, and stop making my father's
1:06.3	house a marketplace. His disciples recalled the words of scripture, zeal for your house will consume me.
1:13.6	At this, the Jews answered and said to him, what sign can you show us for doing this?
1:18.4	Jesus answered and said to them, destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
1:24.6	The Jews said, this temple has been under construction for 46 years, and you will
1:28.9	raise it up in three days. But he was speaking about the temple of his body. Therefore, when he
1:35.6	was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they came to believe
1:40.3	the scripture, and the word Jesus had spoken.
1:45.7	The gospel of the Lord.
1:49.1	Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
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