9/3/23 Deny Yourself

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 2 September 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time

"No" paves the way for "yes".

Jesus gives us the conditions for discipleship. We must deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him. But what does it really mean to deny ourself? And how can this giant "no" pave the way for an even greater "yes"?

Mass Readings from September 3, 2023:
Jeremiah 20:7-9
Psalm 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9
Romans 12:1-2

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sunday Homelies with me, Father Mike Schmitz.
0:04.6	I hope today's homelie inspires and motivates you, and I also hope that it leaves you hungry
0:09.4	for the one who gave everything to feed you.
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0:28.3	God bless.
0:30.2	The Lord be with you.
0:31.2	And with your spirit.
0:32.4	A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew.
0:35.0	Glory to you, Lord.
0:36.5	Chapter 16 verses 21 through 27.
0:39.8	Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly
0:43.9	from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed.
0:48.0	And on the third day be raised.
0:50.5	Then Peter took Jesus aside and began to review him.
0:53.3	God forbid, Lord, no such thing shall ever happen to you.
0:57.1	He turned and said to Peter, get behind me Satan, you are an obstacle to me.
1:02.4	You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.
1:05.8	Then Jesus said to his disciples, whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself,
1:12.0	take up his cross, and follow me.
1:14.7	For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it.
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