11/30/25 Waiting Well: Engaged

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 29 November 2025

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Summary

Homily from the First Sunday of Advent.

The process is the point.

When we are waiting, we often want to be "done". We want to be "there". We want our waiting to be over so that we can start living. But life happens right here and right now. And God is doing something right now. We do not simply endure waiting, we engage during the waiting. The declaration of faithful waiting is: I am confident that this moment is crucial.

Mass Readings from November 30, 2025:
Isaiah 2:1-5
Psalm 122: 1-9
Romans 13:11-14

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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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0:28.3	God bless.
0:30.0	The Lord be with you.
0:31.7	I'm with your spirit.
0:33.2	You're reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew.
0:36.2	Lord, to you 11.
0:37.5	Chapter 24 verses 37 through 44. reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew. Lord to you a Lord.
0:41.0	Chapter 24 verses 37 through 44.
0:47.8	Jesus said to his disciples, as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
0:49.3	In those days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in
0:53.4	marriage, up to the day that Noah entered the ark. They did not know until the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the
0:54.5	day that Noah entered the ark. They did not know until the flood came and carried them
0:58.5	all away. So will it be also, at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be out in the
1:04.4	field, one will be taken, and one will be left. Two women will be grinding at the mill, one
1:10.0	will be taken, and one will be left. Therefore women will be grinding at the mill. One will be taken, and one will be left.
1:13.0	Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on which day your Lord will come. Be sure of this.
1:19.6	If the master of the house had known the hour of night when the thief was coming, he would
1:23.4	have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into. So too you also must be prepared.
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