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🗓️ 21 December 2024
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Want to walk through Advent with Fr. Mike?
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Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Advent.
I'm not going to fear what I don't know, I am going to trust who I do know.
We can wait in excitement and joy...we can also wait in fear. We fear the dark and might fear death for the same reason: the unknown. We can fear the unknown in the afterlife and we can fear the unknown of our own inner life. God's mercy leads us to a place of trust.
Luke 1:39-45
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0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz. |
0:01.3 | I'd like to invite you to join me this upcoming Advent on the Ascension app. |
0:04.9 | Here's a question. |
0:06.0 | What if you knew that December 25th, Christmas Day, was the day that you were going to wake up dead? |
0:12.5 | I know that sounds morbid, but there's a reality of our life would have to change, right? |
0:16.8 | The way we would live Advent would have to change. |
0:19.1 | We'd have to live it with intentionality. |
0:20.7 | We'd have to live it with intentionality. We'd have to live it with purpose. |
0:21.6 | We have to live it with grace. |
0:23.3 | If you want to join me every day of this upcoming Advent |
0:25.8 | from December 1st to December 25th, |
0:28.3 | download the Ascension app and join the wait list. |
0:30.6 | Or you could go to ascensionpress.com |
0:32.5 | slash Father Mike Advent to join. |
0:34.8 | Download the Ascension app today. |
0:38.7 | The Lord be with you. |
0:40.3 | A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke. |
0:44.2 | Glory to Lord. |
0:46.3 | Chapter 1, verse 39 through 45. |
0:49.8 | Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah where she entered |
0:54.7 | the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant |
0:59.9 | leaped in her womb and Elizabeth filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, |
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