8/17/25 Ordinary People
Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
Ascension
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🗓️ 16 August 2025
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Summary
Homily from the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Villains and Heroes are made out of the same stuff.
We are not surrounded by villains and heroes, we are surrounded by ordinary people. And every one of us, by our daily choices, can become a villain or hero.
- Mass Readings from August 17, 2025:
- Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10
- Psalm 40:2, 3, 4, 18
- Hebrews 12:1-4
Luke 12:49-53
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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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| 0:25.0 | subscribe on your podcast app for weekly notifications. God bless. The Lord be with you. A reading from |
| 0:33.2 | the Holy Gospel according to Luke. Chapter 12 verses 49 to 53. |
| 0:41.1 | Jesus said to his disciples, |
| 0:43.2 | I have come to set the earth on fire, |
| 0:46.2 | and how I wish it were already blazing. |
| 0:49.1 | There is a baptism with which I must be baptized |
| 0:51.4 | and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished. |
| 0:54.6 | Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? |
| 0:58.1 | No, I tell you, but rather, division. |
| 1:01.8 | From now on, a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three. |
| 1:07.0 | A father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, |
| 1:11.4 | a mother against her daughter, and a daughter against her mother, |
| 1:15.0 | mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, |
| 1:17.3 | and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. |
| 1:21.1 | The gospel of the Lord. |
| 1:23.5 | Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 1:25.6 | Wait you to have a seat. |
| 1:28.3 | So I would argue that maybe one of the best depictions of a villain, like a real-life villain in, like modern media, is a man named Walter White in the TV show Breaking Bad. |
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