8/31/25 Freedom and Joy
Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
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🗓️ 30 August 2025
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Summary
Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Humility is nothing other than acknowledging and living the truth.
Humility is not pretending to be someone other than we are. It is neither pretending to be better nor pretending to be worse than we are. But is the freedom and the joy of living the full truth about ourselves.
- Mass Readings from August 31, 2025:
- Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29
- Psalm 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11
- Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a
Luke 14:1, 7-14
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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. |
| 0:12.6 | If you want to get this and other Sunday mass resources sent straight to your inbox, |
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| 0:25.3 | on your podcast app for weekly notifications. God bless. The Lord be with you. And with your |
| 0:32.2 | spirit. You're reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke. Glory to you, Lord. Chapter 14, verse 1 and verses 7 through 14. |
| 0:40.9 | On the Sabbath, Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the |
| 0:45.0 | people there were observing him carefully. |
| 0:47.3 | He told a parable to those who had been invited, noticing how they were choosing the places |
| 0:51.0 | of honor at the table. |
| 0:52.8 | When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not recline at table in the places of honor at the table. When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, |
| 0:55.7 | do not recline at table in the place of honor. A more distinguished guest than you might have arrived, |
| 1:01.2 | been invited by him, and the host who invited both of you may approach you and say, |
| 1:05.7 | give your place to this man. And then you would proceed with embarrassment to take the lowest place. Rather, |
| 1:12.7 | when you were invited, go and take the lowest place, so that when the host comes to you, |
| 1:17.6 | he says, he may say, my friend, move up to a higher position. Then you will enjoy the esteem of your |
| 1:22.9 | companions at the table for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself |
| 1:28.8 | will be exalted. Then he said to the host who invited him, when you hold a lunch or a dinner, |
| 1:35.3 | do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors. |
| 1:40.4 | In case they may invite you back and you have repayment, rather, when you hold the banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. |
| 1:50.7 | Blessed it indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. |
| 1:55.7 | For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous. |
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