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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Mass of the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas).

Why is He there?

We have become more comfortable with the "completed" past than the unknown future. Rather than desiring to launch into the challenge of the future, many of us have become paralyzed by fear of the future. When we are rooted in the Word of God each day, we become more rooted in God Himself each day. When we are rooted in the Lord, there is no room for fear of the future.

Mass Readings from December 25, 2020:
Isaiah 52:7-10
Psalm 98:1-6
Hebrews 1:1-6

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0:00.0	So again, Merry Christmas and what a gift to be able to.
0:06.0	I don't know, just there's so many things around Christmas that are.
0:09.0	I love Christmas movies and I don't know, I don't know.
0:12.0	I want to ask, like, I don't know if you were in your home right now or wherever you're at.
0:16.0	Just what your favorite Christmas movie is because there's so many to choose from.
0:19.0	There are like the classics right there.
0:21.0	There's Miracle on 34th Street. There's like the original Mike Christmas.
0:24.0	There's a wonderful life. You have Christmas Carol.
0:27.0	You have the Claimation Rudolph, Frosty, you don't know about the list.
0:30.0	And also the newer classics, right? You have Christmas vacation, which is a great one.
0:34.0	The Grinch. You have Elf. Of course, I don't know.
0:37.0	There's none other than the newer Christmas classic than Christmas story.
0:41.0	A story of Ralphie.
0:43.0	All he wants is a Red Rider, carbon action 200 shot and range.
0:45.0	I'll write for it with a compass in the stock and the thing is all the time.
0:48.0	That's all he wants and everyone keeps warning him that he's gonna shoot his eye out.
0:50.0	So there's a lot to choose from when it comes to Christmas movies.
0:53.0	But I would say that here in 2020, my favorite Christmas movie of all time possibly is the movie Taken.
1:02.0	If you just see that movie, Taken with Liam Neeson.
1:04.0	It's a story of like, he Liam Neeson plays as XCIA operative, whose seventh year old daughter is on vacation in France.
1:10.0	And she gets abducted. She gets sold into human trafficking.
1:13.0	And then he has this very particular set of skills that he wants to do something about this.
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