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Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
Ascension
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🗓️ 23 August 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
Discipline isn't the point, but it is the path.
God calls us to develop the potential He has given us by leaning into the discipline He is calling us to. Who is it you want to be? What do you want to be true about you?
- Mass Readings from August, 24, 2025:
- Isaiah 66:18-21
- Psalm 117:1, 2
- Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13
Luke 13:22-30
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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. |
| 0:31.3 | And with your spirit. |
| 0:32.7 | You're reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke. |
| 0:35.4 | Glory to Lord. |
| 0:37.3 | Chapter 13 verses 22 through 30. |
| 0:40.4 | Jesus passed through towns and villages, teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem. |
| 0:45.8 | Someone asked him, Lord, will only a few people be saved? |
| 0:49.7 | He answered them, strive to enter through the narrow gate. |
| 0:53.8 | For many, I tell you, we'll attempt to enter, but will not be strong enough. |
| 0:58.4 | After the master of the house has arisen and locked the door, then you will stand outside knocking |
| 1:03.2 | and saying, Lord, open the door for us. |
| 1:05.9 | He will say to you in reply, I do not know where you are from. |
| 1:09.6 | And you will say, we ate and drank in your company |
| 1:11.8 | and you taught in our streets. And he will say to you, I do not know where you are from. Depart |
| 1:18.4 | from me, all you evildoers. And there will be wailing and grinding of teeth when you see Abraham, |
| 1:23.9 | Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God and you yourselves cast out. |
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