4/28/24 Nunc Coepi: Time to Start

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 27 April 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Easter.

You got to wake up today.

We don't know if we will have enough time to finish, but we do know that we have time to start. We have a tendency to delay, but the only time that we have is now; and since we got to wake up today, we have the chance to say "Now, I begin".

Mass Readings from April 28, 2024:
Acts 9:26-31
Psalms 22:26-28, 30-32
1 John 3:18-24

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sunday Homilies with me, Father Mike Schmitz.
0:04.4	I hope today's homily inspires and motivates you,
0:07.4	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	Glory to you, Lord.
0:37.0	Chapter 15 verses 1 through 8.
0:40.0	Jesus said to his disciples,
0:42.0	I am the true vine, and my father is the vine grower.
0:45.9	He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and everyone that does, he prunes
0:51.8	so that it bears more fruit.
0:54.8	You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you.
0:58.3	Remain in me as I remain in you.
1:00.7	Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
1:07.0	I am the vine. You are the branches.
1:11.0	Whoever it remains in me and I and him will bear much fruit because without me you can do nothing.
1:17.6	Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and whither. People will gather them and throw them into a fire where there will be burned.
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