Episode 123140: 12/28/25 The Holy Family
Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
Ascension
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🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Homily from the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
The "trad family" goes back farther than the 1950's...
Men and women need to be authentically masculine and feminine for their marriages and families to thrive. But what IS authentic masculinity? What IS authentic femininity?
- Mass Readings from December 28, 2025:
- Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14
- Psalm 128:1-2, 3, 4-5
- Colossians 3:12-21 or 3:12-17
Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23
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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. |
| 0:30.0 | The Lord be with you. |
| 0:31.5 | And with their spirit. |
| 0:33.3 | You're reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew. |
| 0:36.0 | Glory to you, Lord. |
| 0:37.8 | Chapter 2 verses 13 through 15 and verses 19 through 23. |
| 0:42.5 | When the Magi had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, |
| 0:48.2 | Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I'd tell you. |
| 0:55.7 | Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him. Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt. |
| 1:01.5 | He stayed there until the death of Herod that what the Lord had said through the prophet might be |
| 1:05.7 | fulfilled. Out of Egypt, I've called my son. When Herod had died, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, Rise, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead. He rose, took the child and his mother, and went to the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea, in place of his father, Herod, |
| 1:29.1 | he was afraid to go back there. |
| 1:31.0 | And because he had been warned in a dream to depart for the region of Galilee, |
| 1:34.6 | he went and dwelt in a town called Nazareth, |
| 1:37.2 | so that what had been spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled, |
| 1:40.8 | he shall be called a Nazarian. |
| 1:43.8 | The gospel of the Lord. |
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