Blaming vs. Taking Responsibility
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
“Blame keeps us stuck...Taking responsibility gives us the opportunity to move forward.”
In our difficult, fallen world, we are bound to face struggle. Sometimes our natural response to that struggle is to blame other things or people for why it’s happening—even to blame ourselves. While this makes us feel temporarily better because we are justifying our hardship, it also negates the truth of why we experience struggle—and the graces that can come from it.
Today, Fr. Mike explains why it’s always better to take responsibility instead of playing the blame game.
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| 0:00.0 | Blame keeps us stuck. |
| 0:01.6 | That's the end. |
| 0:03.6 | Blame keeps us stuck. |
| 0:05.2 | Taking responsibility gives us the opportunity |
| 0:08.4 | to move forward. |
| 0:09.4 | How many of us Father Mike Schmitz and this is the |
| 0:24.5 | Scenthip Presents? |
| 0:25.5 | Every one of us experiences difficulty in this world, right? |
| 0:28.2 | Every one of us encounters struggle on a daily basis. |
| 0:30.9 | In fact, struggle is the default setting for living in this world. |
| 0:34.8 | It's one of the things that we all have to engage with and we have to learn how to deal |
| 0:38.9 | with it. |
| 0:39.9 | That's the next piece is if struggling and suffering and battling on a daily basis is |
| 0:46.3 | the default setting of life in this fallen world, good but fallen world, then the next |
| 0:51.2 | step is how do I do this? |
| 0:53.4 | How do I engage with the struggle? |
| 0:54.8 | How do I engage with the suffering? |
| 0:55.9 | How do I engage with the fact that I can't always trust people around me? |
| 0:59.8 | How can I engage with the fact that I can't even trust myself sometimes? |
| 1:02.8 | How do I engage with the fact that sometimes it's difficult to hold on to faith, to walk |
| 1:07.4 | in faith and hope and love? |
| 1:09.6 | A lot of our response to that, the struggle is in the midst of the struggle, I want to |
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