12/10/23 Main Character: Perfect

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 9 December 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Second Sunday of Advent.

Perfectionism can move us from caring to quitting.

Spiritual perfectionism can lead people who care about the Faith and who love God to a place of harshness and hurry so much that they just want to give up. But the Gospel reminds us that God is gentle and patient.

Mass Readings from December 10, 2023:
Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11
Psalms 85:9-14
2 Peter 3:8-14

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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, and I also hope that it leaves you hungry for the one who gave everything to feed you.
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0:28.0	God bless.
0:30.0	The Lord be with you.
0:32.0	A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark.
0:36.3	Chapter 1, verse 1 to verse 8. The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
0:43.2	As it is written in Isaiah the Prophet,
0:45.4	behold, I am sending that messenger ahead of you.
0:47.7	He will prepare your way, a voice of one crying out
0:50.4	in the desert.
0:51.5	Prepare the way of the Lord.
0:53.2	Make straight his paths.
0:55.6	John the Baptist appeared in the desert, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness
0:59.4	of sins.
1:01.0	People of the whole Judean countryside and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the Jordan River as they acknowledged their sins.
1:09.0	John was clothed in camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist.
1:14.0	He fed on locusts on wild honey.
1:16.8	And this is what he proclaimed.
1:18.8	One mightier than I is coming after me.
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