4/20/25 What Never Dies

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 19 April 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the The Resurrection of the Lord, The Mass of Easter Day

Get up and do what you can.

We know that darkness is real. And death is real. But darkness and death are not the end. There are some things that never die...Faith...Love...the Promise of eternal life.

Mass Readings from April, 20, 2025:
Acts 10:34a, 37-43
Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23
Colossians 3:1-4 or 1 Corinthians 5:6b-8

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz. I am so excited to be joining the Courage Under Fire
0:04.8	Gala on May 23rd in Nashville, Tennessee, and I would love for you to be there too. I believe that
0:11.6	this world needs people of faith, who are willing to live with clarity, conviction, and compassion.
0:16.8	That's what this night is all about, standing in truth, rooted in Christ and unshaken by the storms
0:22.1	around us.
0:23.4	You know this.
0:24.4	We weren't made for comfort.
0:26.2	We were made for courage.
0:28.5	So go to the Courage Underfire Gala by grabbing your ticket at courage underfiregala.org.
0:34.0	That's courage underfiregala.org.
0:38.2	And God bless.
0:40.7	The Lord be with you.
0:42.2	And with your spirit.
0:44.6	A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.
0:46.6	Glory to you, Lord.
0:48.9	Chapter 20 verses 1 through 9.
0:55.2	On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdalah came to the tomb early in the morning while it was still dark and saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other
1:01.3	disciple whom Jesus loved and told them, they have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don't know where
1:07.1	they put him. So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb.
1:11.8	They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first.
1:16.6	He bent down and saw the burial cloths there but did not go in.
1:20.7	When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and he saw the burial cloths there
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