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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

11/17/19 CompariSIN: Stealing Joy

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

Ascension

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🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time.

If comparison is a thief of joy, then we have to learn how to steal it back.

In the battle to escape the comparison trap, we can become invincible to bad comparison by actively looking for the blessings, giving thanks, and inviting others into celebrating them. Because there are some things worth celebrating.

Mass Readings from November 17, 2019:
Malachi 3:19-20
Psalms 98:5-9
2 Thessalonians 3:7-12

Luke 21:5-19

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So maybe I might mention this a lot that I will do a lot of like I'll do a lot of marriage

0:06.3

preps like it's kind of it's kind of a favorite thing I get to do I don't do a lot of weddings

0:10.5

I got to do a wedding yesterday and it's one of those it was awesome beautiful couple

0:14.0

beautiful wedding beautiful party although things beautiful but I can't help but think

0:18.0

whenever I go to a wedding like I'm looking at the whole thing and like everything right

0:21.4

because the music is like big and the wedding party is like extravagant and here is this

0:25.8

all this stuff and I have this scent I'm overwhelmed by it it doesn't even something

0:29.0

I choose it's just a reflex I go isn't this a little much like you look at everything

0:35.7

I'm just like I think it's a little much I think we could tone it down a little bit I

0:39.1

think there's so near you're like father jerk face what the heck but there's something

0:44.1

about this that like again I like I'm a big fan of marriage right but all of the all

0:48.7

of the complicated things that go into putting on a wedding like all the cost that goes

0:52.3

into putting on a wedding all the stress that goes into being part of wedding like all of

0:55.7

that I'm just like I told couples almost semi regularly I'm like you guys in your in

1:00.6

marriage prep like if you want we could do you could elope like just skip the wedding

1:05.4

part like coming on a Tuesday bring your parents and it'll be nice and a little sump

1:08.7

ball some small ceremony in the garage we can get this thing hammered out like really

1:12.9

easily really quickly for almost free I mean I'm very cheap I think and I'm kind of

1:19.3

only semi joking semi joking because because the reality of course is that the reason

1:28.0

why weddings are worth having like weddings are worth having for a couple of reasons here

1:31.6

three reasons one is because you know if you're wedding days not about you your wedding

1:37.1

is not about you right do you call to be to vocation of marriage means you're you're

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