12/24/23 Main Character: No Small Parts

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 23 December 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Advent.

Whatever You ask of me, the answer is yes.

One of the more challenging reminders of this series is that God is the point of all of this. He is not only the Main Character, but this is also His Story. Nonetheless, we have been given a role; we have been created and redeemed in order to play our part.

Mass Readings from December 24, 2023:
2 Samuel 7:1-5, 8-12, 14, 16
Psalms 89:2-5, 27, 29
Romans 16:25-27

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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 Luke.
0:35.0	Chapter 1 versus 26 through 38.
0:40.0	The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph of the House of David and the virgin's name was Mary and coming to her he said
0:50.6	Hailful of grace the Lord is with you.
0:53.9	But she was greatly troubled at what was said,
0:55.8	and pondered what sort of greeting this might be.
0:58.7	Then the angel said to her,
0:59.9	do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
1:03.6	Behold you will conceive in your womb and bear a son
1:06.0	and you shall name him Jesus.
1:08.4	He will be great and will be called son of the Most High,
1:11.6	and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father,
1:14.4	and that he will rule over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom there will be no end.
1:19.2	But Mary said to the angel, how can this be since I have no relations with a man?
1:23.0	And the angel said to her in reply,
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