12/02/18 Be Ready, Get Ready

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the First Sunday of Advent.

You will never be ready unless you get ready.

Advent is a season of preparation. We get ready to celebrate the first coming of Christ into this world. We also get ready for His Second Coming at the end of the world…or at the end of our individual lives. During Advent, we get ready to die.

Mass Readings from December 02, 2018:
Jeremiah 33:14-16
Psalms 25:4-5, 8-9, 10, 14
1 Thessalonians 3:12—4:2

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0:00.0	So the last week of classes, sorry CSS, the second to last week of classes, this is it.
0:08.2	This is like the time when everything you got to be ready.
0:11.2	You know like here's the finals, everyone, that question right is like are you ready for
0:15.8	your finals?
0:16.8	Are you ready for your tests?
0:17.8	Are you ready for the paper?
0:18.8	I'm thinking, thank you for answering.
0:20.9	Like no, this is, you're proving my point.
0:23.1	This is really good.
0:24.1	Keep going with this.
0:25.1	Are you ready for the project?
0:26.1	You're not ready for the project or for the presentation.
0:27.9	It's one of those things where it's coming down to the wire and all those things, the
0:31.8	final, the exam, the paper, the presentation, all those things, they're the kinds of things
0:38.8	that you can only be ready for them if you get ready for them.
0:44.6	The worst part about this is that if you're not ready, the worst part about it is if you're
0:50.8	not ready.
0:53.2	You think back a couple of months and you realize you have had a syllabus since the
0:57.5	very first day of class.
0:58.5	It's not like, oh that's now, that's coming up this week.
1:02.6	No, you've known from the very first day of class that it was going to be due this week
1:06.8	or next week or you know it was, you knew it was coming and still you're like I didn't
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