12/05/21 Abounding Love: What is Worth Your Heart?

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Second Sunday of Advent.

Abounding love is focused love.

Too often, we do not love well because we do not discern what is worth loving; we don't pay attention to the value of things. Because of this, our love becomes diluted. But when we truly appreciate the value of the moment or the value of the person, we develop an attitude of abundance coupled with an awareness of scarcity. And while we love with our hearts, we discern what is worth loving with our heads.

Mass Readings from December 5, 2021:
Baruch 5:1-9
Psalm 126:1-3, 4-6
Philippians 1:4-6, 8-11

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0:00.0	So one of the things I've been, one of the things I've realized recently, well maybe I've
0:05.0	known it for a while, but I came across it once again, is that you can pray about anything.
0:09.2	Like you can, you can talk to God about virtually, I mean we talked about God, about like
0:13.3	important stuff, right?
0:14.3	We pray about school, we pray about work, we pray about our family members, people we
0:17.4	love, we pray about our future, just God, what do you want me to do with my life?
0:20.7	We pray about all these important things, but you can talk to God about anything, and I was
0:23.5	reflecting on this because recently I was praying about, praying about game shows.
0:29.3	I just like, it just, I don't know why, but I always think, whenever I think game shows
0:32.4	I think of a certain number of them, I think of like supermarket sweep, you ever watch
0:35.2	this supermarket sweep?
0:36.2	I always think about that one because my uncle was friends with the host of it, and I was
0:38.6	like, oh that's Dave, I met him once, you know, or gosh, all of them, wheel of fortune
0:43.2	is still on.
0:44.2	Not only, this is remarkable, I was sticking this to prayer, not only is wheel of fortune
0:47.7	still a thing, but Pat SayJack and Van A White are still doing their thing.
0:51.7	They haven't been replaced, and even when they replace people like Richard Dawson was the
0:55.0	original host of the family feud, right, the feud.
0:58.3	Steve Harvey is awesome.
1:00.3	I don't know if you have this where you, on Facebook, you know, there's a thing called
1:03.9	Facebook, I don't know if you guys use this anymore, but or on YouTube, sometimes they
1:06.7	have clips like clips of Steve Harvey being hilarious on family feud, and I just will waste
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