7/9/23 Hurry and Worry

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 8 July 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

"Hurry is the greatest threat to the spiritual life and the way of Jesus."

We constantly experience the temptation to "max out" our lives by racing from event to event, task to task. The goal of life is union with God and anything that takes us away from this goal is a major threat to this goal...including hurry.

Mass Readings from July 9, 2023:
Zechariah 9:9-10
Psalm 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13-14
Romans 8:9, 11-13

Transcript

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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.
0:30.2	The Lord be with you.
0:31.2	I'm going to hear you say it.
0:33.0	A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew.
0:35.3	I'm going to hear you say it.
0:37.7	Chapter 11 verses 25 through 30.
0:41.0	At that time Jesus exclaimed,
0:43.0	I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth.
0:46.0	For although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned,
0:49.0	you have revealed them to little ones.
0:51.6	Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.
0:54.6	All things have been handed over to me by my Father.
0:57.5	No one knows the Son except the Father.
0:59.5	And no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.
1:04.3	Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.
1:09.1	Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart.
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