4/30/23 Homestretch: Love

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 29 April 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter

Sometimes love is just showing up.

At the twilight of our lives, we will be judged on love alone. And to love is to give. Love almost always involves sacrifice. Because there is no present like the time.

Mass Readings from April 30, 2023:
Acts 2:14a, 36-41
Psalm 23: 1-3a, 3b4, 5, 6
1 Peter 2:20b-25

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sunday Homelies with me, Father Mike Schmitz.
0:04.6	I hope today's homelie inspires and motivates you, and I also hope that it leaves you hungry
0:09.4	for the one who gave everything to feed you.
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0:28.3	God bless.
0:30.9	The Lord be with you.
0:32.1	I know, it is.
0:33.6	He reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.
0:36.1	I know, it's in the Lord.
0:38.4	Chapter 10 verses 1 through 10.
0:40.4	Jesus said, Amen, amen.
0:43.2	I say to you, whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate,
0:47.0	declines over elsewhere is a thief and a robber.
0:50.2	But whoever enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.
0:54.0	The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hears his voice as the shepherd calls his own sheep by name.
1:00.0	And leads them out.
1:02.0	When he is driven out all his own, he walks ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.
1:07.8	But they will not follow a stranger.
1:10.2	They will run away from him because they do not recognize the voice of strangers.
1:14.6	Although Jesus used this figure of speech, the Pharisees did not realize what he was trying to tell them.
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