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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

12/25/19 One Star

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

Ascension

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🗓️ 25 December 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Nativity of the Lord.

God will always fulfill His promises. Is that enough?

We know that God is faithful because He has fulfilled what He has promised. But He does not need to do what He has not promised to do.

Mass Readings from December 25, 2019:
Isaiah 52:7-10
Psalms 98:1-6
Hebrews 1:1-6

John 1:1-18

Transcript

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So there's something about this season.

0:04.0

It's like a season of expectation, isn't it?

0:06.0

I mean, there's so much expectation when it comes to everything.

0:08.0

Well, we expect kind of the same food around this time of year.

0:12.0

We expect the same kind of, I expect to watch the same shows, expect to listen to the same songs.

0:16.0

We even have this mentality when it comes to the gifts.

0:19.0

We have an expectation of receiving gifts.

0:21.0

What's interesting to, with that, is, I think along with the sense of expectation,

0:26.0

we also have the sense of like rating things.

0:29.0

Like, so if you expected something, it's like, okay, how did it turn out?

0:32.0

Like, you expected that to eat that whatever thing.

0:34.0

Like, okay, how was it?

0:35.0

Well, on a scale of 1 to 10, you know, kind of like, there's this tendency we have.

0:39.0

We expect something to kind of like also then fall into the rating of the thing.

0:44.0

Now, I was thinking about this recently, because I came across, you know how on Amazon,

0:47.0

if you keep shop for something, they have the reviews, and you can give it, you know,

0:51.0

you know, how many out of five stars.

0:52.0

So I was reading one of these, and it was about, for a socking cap, like, you know, winter cap.

0:57.0

This person wrote a review, and they said, like, I love this hat.

1:02.0

They said this hat fits me perfectly.

1:04.0

It's warm, it's super comfortable.

1:07.0

I love the material, it's super cute.

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