9/14/25 Words Fail

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 13 September 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

The sign of our shame has become the symbol of our hope.

The Cross of Jesus is God's answer to our guilt. The Cross of Jesus is God's answer to our lack of trust. The Cross of Jesus is God's answer to evil.

Mass Readings from September 14, 2025:
Numbers 21:4b-9
Psalm 78:1bc-2, 34-35, 36-37, 38
Philippians 2:6-11

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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,
0:16.9	sign up at ascensionpress.com slash Sunday or by texting Sunday to 33777. You can also follow or
0:25.0	subscribe on your podcast app for weekly notifications. God bless. The Lord be with you. And with your
0:32.1	spirit. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John. Glory to you, O Lord. Chapter 3 verses 13 through 17. Jesus said to
0:41.5	Nicodemus, no one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven,
0:46.6	the son of man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the son of man
0:52.3	be lifted up so that everyone who believes in him
0:55.0	may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, so that he who
1:02.2	believes in him might not perish, but might have eternal life. For God did not send his son into the
1:08.1	world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved
1:11.7	through him. The gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. Wait you to have a seat.
1:20.4	So I would say this. I would say words are good. Words are really good. I big fan. Big fan of words.
1:27.1	We need them. And yet, I mean, go on and on about
1:32.0	the greatness, the goodness, the usefulness of words. And yet at the same time, we know this.
1:35.9	We know that there are times when words fail. Like, there's times when it's just simpler,
1:42.4	it's just easier, it's just more more clear what exactly we mean when we go
1:47.4	beyond. So like a dumb example, like go up to the restroom in a public, public space. And it could
1:52.8	just say, men's room, women's room. Got it. No problem. It's easy. Sometimes people like, like,
1:57.2	hey, you're at a, you know, a hunters type bar. It's bucks and those. Like, that's great. I think, I don't know, a hunters type bar. It's bucks and doze.
2:01.7	Like, that's great.
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