12/08/25 This Present Moment
Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
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🗓️ 8 December 2025
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Summary
Homily from the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
This feast day of the Immaculate Conception is not just a privilege for Mary: it's a prophecy for us.
The Feast of the Immaculate Conception reveals God's plan to conquer sin not just by repairing what is broken, but by preparing a path where grace triumphs first. This Advent we are invited to enter into the "Sacrament of the Present Moment", where God offers real, life-changing grace in each moment we choose to be present to Him. Mary's unique "yes" reminds us to stop waiting and to respond to God's already-given grace with a wholehearted and immediate "yes".
- Mass Readings from December 8, 2025:
- Genesis 3:9-15, 20
- Psalm 98:1-4
- Ephesians 1:3-6, 11-12
Luke 1:26-38
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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. |
| 0:29.9 | The Lord be with you. |
| 0:32.6 | A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke. |
| 0:37.4 | Chapter 1 verses 26 through verse 38. |
| 0:41.3 | The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin |
| 0:45.7 | retroath to a man named Joseph of the House of David, and the virgin's name was Mary. |
| 0:50.7 | And coming to her, he said, hail full of grace. |
| 0:54.0 | The Lord is with you. But she was greatly troubled at what was said and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. Then the angel said to her, Do not be afraid, Mary. For you have found favor with God. Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son. And you shall name him Jesus. He will be great, and will be called |
| 1:11.9 | son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David, his father, and he will |
| 1:16.2 | rule over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end. |
| 1:21.2 | The Mary said to the angel, how can this be, since I have no relations with a man? And the |
| 1:26.7 | angel said to her in reply, |
| 1:27.9 | The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. |
| 1:33.3 | Therefore, the child to be born will be called Holy, the Son of God. And behold, Elizabeth, |
| 1:38.8 | your relative, has also conceived a son in her old age. And this is the sixth month for her |
| 1:43.6 | who was once called |
| 1:44.5 | barren, for nothing will be impossible for God. Mary said, behold, I am the handmaid of the |
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