12/25/23 The Amateur

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 25 December 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas).

The reality is that God is not a professional. He is an amateur.

There are many things in life where we merely like the "idea" of that thing. The reality is another story, because the reality makes demands on us. Christmas is a reminder that we not only cannot love the "idea" of God, but that He does not merely love the idea of us.

Mass Readings from December 25, 2023:
Isaiah 52:7-10
Psalms 98:1-6.
Hebrews 1:1-6

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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 John.
0:35.0	Gory to you, the Lord.
0:37.0	Chapter 1 versus 1 through 18.
0:40.0	In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.
0:45.9	He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be.
0:51.6	What came to be.
0:52.5	What came to be through him was life.
0:55.4	And this life was the light of the human race.
0:57.7	The light shines in darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
1:02.4	A man named John was sent from God.
1:04.0	He came for testimony to testify to the light so that all might believe through him.
1:09.0	He was not the light, that came to testify to the light. The true light which enlightens everyone
1:15.4	was coming into the world. He was in the world and the world came to be through him, but
1:20.6	the world did not know him. He came to what was his own,
1:24.0	but his own people did not accept him.
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