Welcome to Sunday Homelies with me, Father Mike Schmitz.

I hope today's homelie 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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God Bless.

The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, Joseph, son of David, do not

be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home.

For it is through the Holy Spirit that this child has been conceived in her, she will

bear a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.

All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet, behold, the

Virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel, which means God

is with us.

When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took his wife

into his home.

The Gospel of the Lord.

So over the course of these last 22 days, essentially, of having 29 minutes for 22 days so far,

there has been a great grace.

I think that hopefully you have had the grace of this time of prayer.

For myself, one of the things I have noticed is that there has been the great quiet of

just kind of, okay, Lord, I am coming into your presence with no other agenda, other

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