9/7/25 Two Questions

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 6 September 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Whenever there is something of value that we desire, we have to ask these two questions.

Jesus gives the conditions for discipleship. He gives us the very "cost" of being His disciple. The condition is: He must be FIRST. He must be loved before all others.

Mass Readings from Septemeber 7, 2025:
Wisdom 9:13-18b
Psalm 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14 and 17
Philemon 9-10, 12-17

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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.
0:31.4	And with your spirit.
0:32.6	A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.
0:36.9	Chapter 14 versus 25 through verse 33.
0:41.0	Great crowds were traveling with Jesus, and he turned and addressed them.
0:45.3	If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and
0:50.4	sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry his own
0:56.9	cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. Which of you, wishing to construct a tower, does not
1:03.1	first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion. Otherwise,
1:08.0	after laying the foundation, inviting himself unable to finish the work the onlookers
1:12.1	should laugh at him and say this one began to build but did not have the resources to finish
1:17.3	or what king marching into battle would not first sit down and decide whether with 10,000 troops
1:22.3	he can successfully oppose another king advancing upon him with 20,000 troops. But if not, while he is still far away,
1:30.0	he was sent a delegation to ask for peace terms. In the same way, any one of you who does not renounce
1:36.1	all his possessions, cannot be my disciple. The Gospel of the Lord.
1:42.4	Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
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