12/25/18 But Why?
Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
Ascension
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🗓️ 25 December 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Homily from the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas).
The Why is a Who.
Jesus is not merely the “reason for the season”… He is the reason for everything.
- Mass Readings from December 25, 2018:
- Isaiah 62:11-12
- Psalms 97:1, 6, 11-12
- Titus 3:4-7
Luke 2:15-20
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| 0:00.0 | So, Merry Christmas again. |
| 0:03.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:05.0 | You're like, you never know what to say, right? |
| 0:06.0 | You like, you want a response? |
| 0:07.0 | Sure. Why not? Merry Christmas. |
| 0:10.0 | You know, one of the things that I just always, |
| 0:13.0 | whenever Christmas comes along, especially Christmas masses, |
| 0:16.0 | I want the thing of Christmas songs, |
| 0:18.0 | because it's just one of the things that brings us back |
| 0:20.0 | to like the season we have the songs. |
| 0:22.0 | But one of the things I found was how many times |
| 0:24.0 | I don't know act the actual lyrics, the Christmas songs. |
| 0:27.0 | But I make them up anyways. |
| 0:28.0 | Or you miss here in the mean, you go your whole life |
| 0:30.0 | thinking like, that's not how it goes. |
| 0:32.0 | I came across like a list of things, |
| 0:34.0 | so like, even like Santa songs, like, |
| 0:36.0 | he's making a list of chicken and rice. |
| 0:39.0 | It's not how the song goes. |
| 0:41.0 | It's not actual, the new popular one, |
| 0:44.0 | all I want for Christmas is food. |
| 0:48.0 | Nope, that's not how it goes. |
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