3/22/26 Autobiography: Epilogue
Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
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🗓️ 21 March 2026
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Summary
Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Lent.
Life AFTER his life WITH.
Some great stories tell us an important piece of information: where are they now? In our autobiography, after we have experienced "the return"; after we have experienced grace, how do we live? What does our "bonus chapter" look like? What is in our Epilogue?
Mass Readings from March 22, 2026: Ezekiel 37:12-14 Psalm 130:1-8Romans 8:8-11John 11:1-45
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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, |
| 0:07.6 | and I also hope that it leaves you hungry for the one who gave everything to feed you. |
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| 0:28.3 | God bless. |
| 0:29.9 | The Lord be with you. |
| 0:31.6 | And with your spirit. |
| 0:32.9 | A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John. |
| 0:35.7 | Glory to you, O Lord. |
| 0:37.5 | Chapter 11, verses 1 through 45. |
| 0:40.4 | Now, a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. |
| 0:46.3 | Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with the perfumed oil and dried his feet with |
| 0:50.2 | her hair. |
| 0:51.3 | It was her brother, Lazarus, who was ill. |
| 0:53.9 | So the sisters sent word to Jesus |
| 0:55.7 | saying, Master, the one you love is ill. When Jesus heard this, he said, this illness is not to end |
| 1:02.3 | in death, but it is for the glory of God, that the son of God may be glorified through it. |
| 1:09.1 | Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when he heard |
| 1:13.9 | that he was ill, he remained for two days in the place where he was. Then after this, he said to his |
| 1:19.1 | disciples, let us go back to Judea. The disciples said to him, Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone |
| 1:24.3 | you and you want to go back there. Jesus answered, are there not 12 hours in a day? |
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