6/16/24 Always Courageous

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 15 June 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Courage is the willingness to do God's will on your own accord.

We find ourselves in a place where we face uncertainty and difficulty. And yet, we are called to nonetheless move forward with courage. We walk by faith and not by sight. We choose to trust in God's Word more than our fears.

Mass Readings from June 16, 2024:
Ezekiel 17:22-24
Psalms 92:2-3, 13--16
2 Corinthians 5:6-10

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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 Mark.
0:35.0	Goring to you, Lord.
0:37.0	Chapter 4, 26 through 34.
0:40.0	Jesus said to the crowds, This is how it is with the kingdom of God.
0:45.0	It is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night and day,
0:50.0	and through it all the seed would sprout and grow he knows not how. Of its own accord, the land
0:56.0	yields fruit. First the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. And when the grain is
1:01.5	ripe, he wields the sickle at once for the harvest has come.
1:05.0	He said, to what shall we compare the kingdom of God?
1:09.0	Or what parable can we use for it?
1:11.0	It's like a mustard seed that when it is thrown
1:14.2	sown in the ground is the smallest of all seeds on the earth. But once it is
1:18.0	sewn it springs up and becomes the largest of plants and puts forth large
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