8/13/23 The Enemy of Focus

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 15 September 2015

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

A distraction issue or a decision issue?

In order to achieve any worthwhile goal, we need to focus. Yet, distractions abound in our world and in ourselves. A distraction is anything that takes our focus away from what we need to be doing. But in order to know what a distraction is, we first have to know what it is we need to be doing.

Mass Readings from August 13, 2023:1 Kings 19:9a, 11-13aPsalm 85:9, 10, 11-12, 13-14Romans 9:1-5

Matthew 14:22-33

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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 Matthew.
0:35.0	Glory to the Lord.
0:37.0	Chapter 14, 22 through 33.
0:39.0	After he had fed the people,
0:41.0	Jesus made the disciples get into a boat and proceed him to the other side while he dismissed the crowds.
0:46.0	After doing so, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray.
0:50.0	When it was evening, he was there alone.
0:52.0	Meanwhile, the boat already a few miles offshore was being When it was evening, he was there alone.
0:52.6	Meanwhile, the boat already a few miles offshore was being tossed about by the waves,
0:56.2	for the wind was against it.
0:58.0	During the fourth watch of the night, he came toward them, walking on the sea.
1:05.5	When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified.
1:08.4	It is a ghost, they said, and they cried out in fear.
1:10.9	At once, Jesus spoke to them.
1:13.0	Take courage. It is I.
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