11/29/20 Be Here

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the First Sunday of Advent.

God will not just get us through this moment…He has brought us to this moment.

Too often, we find ourselves just wanting this moment to be “done." We miss out on the miracle of the moment because we see what is happening as something that is getting in the way of life. But this is life. There is not another one we are waiting for. We need to learn to trust that God is not just going to help us get through this moment, but that He has brought us to this moment.

Mass Readings from November 29, 2020:
Isaiah 63:16-17, 19; 64:2-7
Psalms 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19
1 Corinthians 1:3-9

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0:00.0	So, let's get this over with.
0:04.5	Not the holly, that's going to take as long as it takes.
0:08.3	Well, like, those, that term, that word, that phrase, that, that, that's something I think
0:13.0	that we live by.
0:14.0	So many people, that's our default.
0:15.2	Let's get this over with.
0:16.9	Let's just, let's just get through this.
0:18.6	Like, let's, I can't wait for this to be done, so we just need to make it through.
0:21.4	We just need to hold on.
0:22.6	We just need to get this over with.
0:24.7	I think one of the things, you know, I don't know if you had this experience over Thanksgiving,
0:28.5	if you had a chance to be with family, hopefully, that'd be great if you did.
0:31.5	But sometimes that can be what you say to each other as you walk into grandma, grandpa
0:35.0	sourced or uncle and aunt, wherever's house like, okay, let's just make it through this,
0:39.0	and then we can go home.
0:40.0	Like, that kind of idea, they'll just get through the next thing.
0:43.2	I mean, this happens, this is, this is how people live their lives.
0:45.5	Like, okay, it's Monday.
0:47.0	Tomorrow, let's just get through Monday.
0:48.3	Or let's just get through the work week.
0:49.9	Or here's the time between Thanksgiving and, thank Christmas, you know, a, a, a New Year's.
0:54.6	We just get through this holiday season, we see to plow through this and we find, I cannot
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