6/28/26 Intentional Limitation
Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
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🗓️ 27 June 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Homily from the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The necessary risk we must take.
Jesus calls us to love Him first. To place Him ahead of every other goal or desire in our lives. In order to answer the question "What are you living for?", we have to take the risk of knowing what we are NOT living for.
Mass Readings from June 28, 2026:2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16a Psalm 89:2-3, 16-17, 18-19Romans 6:3-4, 8-11Matthew 10:37-42
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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. |
| 0:31.5 | And with your spirit. |
| 0:32.9 | He reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew. |
| 0:35.9 | Glory to you, O Lord. |
| 0:37.5 | Chapter 10 verses 37 through 42. |
| 0:41.4 | Jesus said to his apostles, |
| 0:44.0 | whoever loves father or mother more than me |
| 0:46.2 | is not worthy of me. |
| 0:48.7 | And whoever loves son or daughter more than me |
| 0:50.8 | is not worthy of me. |
| 0:53.5 | And whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not take up his cross and follow after |
| 0:55.9 | me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it. And whoever loses his life for my |
| 1:03.3 | sake will find it. Whoever receives you, receives me. And whoever receives me receives the one who sent me. |
| 1:10.9 | Whoever receives a prophet receives a prophet's reward. |
| 1:14.5 | And whoever receives a prophet because he's a prophet, will receive a prophet's reward. |
| 1:18.5 | Whoever receives a righteous man, because he is a righteous man, will receive a righteous |
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