12/12/21 Abounding Love: Large Hearted

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Third Sunday of Advent.

Be Where Your Feet Are.

Too often, what keeps our heart small is the fact that we do the minimum minimally. What we are called to do, we put the least amount of our heart into it. But to be magnanimous, we do even the minimum excellently. Which is often nothing more than simply doing one thing at a time. Abounding love is focused love.

Mass Readings from December 12, 2021:
Zephaniah 3:14-18
Isaiah 12:2-6
Philippians 4:4-7

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0:00.0	So, I asked you about your favorite documentary because I wanted to tell you about my favorite
0:07.6	documentary.
0:08.6	About ten years ago, I saw this documentary about a man named Yuro Ono.
0:14.8	It's a show called Yuro Dreams of Sushi.
0:17.3	I don't know if you ever saw this, but it was on Netflix for a while.
0:20.4	Basically, the story of this man at the time, ten years ago, he was 85 years old.
0:23.9	He was a master sushi chef, easy for me to say.
0:27.1	He owned the most famous sushi restaurant in the world in a subway station in Tokyo, Japan.
0:32.1	It was only served ten people a night and was the first and only sushi place to have three
0:37.2	Michelin stars, Michelin stars, which I thought had something to do with car tires.
0:40.8	But in fact, it's about great restaurants.
0:43.8	I was fascinated, watched hours long documentary about this man who all he does with his whole
0:48.7	life is he selects and prepares and slices and serves raw fish.
0:54.0	It was absolutely fascinating, absolutely fascinating.
0:57.3	There's also side stories.
0:59.3	For example, he has his oldest son is also a master sushi chef.
1:03.4	I think he's in his 60s and he's still second in command at the restaurant because his
1:07.0	95-year-old father is still in charge and he will only be in charge when his dad leaves,
1:12.3	which is only going to happen when he passes away.
1:15.1	His youngest, his second son is also a master sushi chef.
1:19.0	He had to open his own sushi restaurant because he's like, I'll never have a shot.
1:22.6	My older brother will never be a boss.
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