12/3/23 Main Character: An Average Star
Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
Ascension
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🗓️ 2 December 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Homily from the First Sunday of Advent.
You are God. I am not.
When we encounter the true and living God, there is only one response...it involves six little words, but makes a world of difference.
- Mass Readings from December 3, 2023:
- Isaiah 63:16-17, 19; 64:2-7
- Psalms 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19
- 1 Corinthians 1:3-9
Mark 13:33-37
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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 Mark. |
| 0:35.0 | Chapter 13 verses through 37 |
| 0:40.0 | Jesus said to his disciples, |
| 0:42.8 | be watchful, keep alert. |
| 0:45.0 | You do not know when the time will come. |
| 0:47.5 | It is like a man traveling abroad. |
| 0:49.5 | He leaves home and places his servants in charge each with his own work and orders the gatekeeper to be on the watch. |
| 0:57.0 | Watch therefore. You do not know when the Lord of the house is coming, whether in the evening or at midnight or at cock crow or in the morning. |
| 1:06.4 | May he not come suddenly and find you sleeping. |
| 1:10.1 | When I say to you, I say to all, watch, the Gospel of the Lord. |
| 1:17.0 | I'd like you to have a seat. |
| 1:22.0 | So since it is, it's advent now approaching Christmas I figure it |
| 1:26.2 | be my annual reference to I think what I think actually is the greatest |
| 1:30.6 | Christmas movie of all time I know a couple weeks ago I joked about taking |
| 1:33.2 | being greatest Christmas movie. I don't know about that. I would say it's a wonderful life is almost |
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