Hi, this is Father Mike Schmitz. I hope that you're enjoying this series come to the altar.

It's been a huge blessing for me knowing these things and so it's such a huge honor and privilege

to be able to try to do my best to communicate some of these massively important things

about what it is to truly worship in the mass to all of you who are listening. I hope that you're getting blessed by it.

This is the last little kind of blur before the homily that we're going to do for a while.

As you may have heard last couple podcasts we've done that this upcoming November 15th, this Thursday of this week,

we have our Minnesota Give to the Max Day. It is what we use at UMD Bulldog or Bulldog Catholic or UMD Newman.

Up here in Duluth, this is kind of the major fundraising day that we have throughout the course of the entire year.

Basically, it's where we just ask all those people who have been blessed by this ministry.

If they'd perfectly consider supporting this ministry not only with their prayers but also financially so we can keep reaching out.

To more and more students and bring more and more souls to Christ, not only through the on-campus ministry but also through the online ministry.

So if you are at all interested, if you would, at all be willing, if you wouldn't mind, asking the Lord if He is asking you to pray for us in a special way,

like kind of vote your prayers and fasting, maybe your mass to this ministry or if the Lord is calling you to support us financially.

That would be massively beneficial for us. Again, Give to the Max Day is November 15th. If you want to support us, you can go to givemmn.org.

It's giv.mn is in Minnesota.org. You can do that anytime. You don't have to actually give on that day. You can schedule your gift for this Thursday.

If you miss the date, it's not like, oh shoot, we couldn't benefit from that anymore.

You can go to bulldogcatholic.org. That's our website. UMD Duluth is, or you know, University of Minnesota Duluth are the bulldogs. So we are bulldogcatholic.org.

Just go to that homepage and there's a little button that says donate anytime of the year. If you feel called by the Lord to do that, to do that.

In the over the course of the last year, I have met a number of people who have let me know that, oh you know, I met them here or there and they said, oh I just want to let you know.

I've supported your ministry financially and oh my gosh, you have no idea. In those moments, I want to cry. I want to fall to my knees and just speak.

Thank you so much because those of you who have prayed for us, those of you who fast for us, those of you who have given us financial resources, you have no idea the lives that have been changed because of your gift.

But we could not have done because when I first got here at UMD, we had virtually no financial support at all, except for the, you know, what the diocese was offering us, which was great, but it wasn't very much.

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