7/30/23 Parabellum: This Battle

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 29 July 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Observe. Orient. Decide. Act.

When we are faced with the challenges and obstacles of following Christ, it is easy to become overwhelmed. But we do not have to solve all of the potential issues. We are simply called to face this problem and take the next step.

Mass Readings from July 30, 2023:
1 Kings 3:5, 7-12
Psalm 119:57, 72, 76-77, 127-128, 129-130
Romans 8:28-30

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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.
0:30.1	The Lord be with you.
0:32.5	He reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew.
0:36.5	Chapter 13 verses 44 through 52.
0:40.0	Jesus said to his disciples,
0:50.9	Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls.
0:54.4	When he finds the pearl of great price, he goes and sells all that he has and buys it.
0:59.5	Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea, which collects fish of
1:03.4	every kind. When it is full, they haul it ashore and sit down to put what is good into
1:07.9	buckets. What is bad, they throw away. Thus it will be at the end of the age.
1:12.9	The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery
1:16.4	furnace where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth. Do you understand all these things?
1:22.1	They answered, yes, and he replied, then every scribe who has been instructed in the kingdom of
1:27.6	heaven is like the head of a household who brings from his storeroom both the new and the old.
1:34.8	The Gospel of the Lord.
1:38.6	So in all this reflection on games, I know that the irony is not lost on me that the person who
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