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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

12/20/20 Silent Waiting

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 20 December 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Advent.

Silence magnifies and waiting purifies.

Waiting is not meant to be wasted. The chance to wait in silence is often given by God to serve a purpose...above all to change our faith into something new.

Mass Readings from December 20, 2020:
2 Samuel 7:1-5, 8-12, 14, 16
Psalms 89:2-5, 27, 29
Romans 16:25-27

Luke 1:26-38

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0:00.0

So we know this, we know that I would say this, I would say the waiting is almost over.

0:06.8

I think pretty much, we and our missionaries here, we have had our last day of classes,

0:11.8

we had our last day of finals and so that's good, that's over.

0:16.1

I know some of my nieces and nephews next week, this upcoming week is almost over, it's

0:21.9

not there, it's not quite the waiting for them, it's not quite over.

0:25.5

And also we have Christmas, which means the wait is almost over.

0:28.0

I don't know.

0:29.0

Like waiting for Christmas, I, gosh, sorry, question, for real.

0:32.7

Was it actually difficult?

0:33.7

Did you guys ever have a hard time, like, stressful?

0:36.8

Like, it's hard to wait, as a kid, it's hard to wait.

0:39.2

But I don't know, I think waiting for Christmas right now for me is kind of easy in the sense.

0:44.4

But I remember like back in the day, it was just, it was so hard to wait.

0:48.8

And I have the question, like, why is it so hard to wait?

0:52.6

What is it about waiting that is so difficult?

0:57.4

And I still experience this, right?

0:58.9

It's not just like, I'm so mature right now that I have no problem waiting.

1:02.3

The place I get most stressed out waiting, I think right now is the confession line, which

1:05.7

is just the worst, you think, okay, this is the place where you're going to go with confessor

1:09.7

sins, this is the place where grace is at the end of this line.

1:12.3

And yet I get so stressed out and so nervous and I just hate waiting in line because, well,

1:17.4

you know, there's sometimes there's a person ahead who's like, they see someone else coming

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