Episode 123141: 1/1/26 Taken For Granted

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God

Resolve: I will not take these things for granted.

We are surrounded by the amazing and miraculous every day. But we often miss it because our lives are too busy and too full. If we take a page out of Mary, the Mother of God's book, we would reflect on all these things...and no longer take them for granted.

Mass Readings from January 1, 2026:
Numbers 6:22-27
Psalm 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8
Galatians 4:4-7

Transcript

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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.
0:31.5	With your spirit.
0:32.7	A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.
0:35.3	Glory to you, Lord.
0:37.3	Chapter 2 verses 16 through 21.
0:40.6	The shepherds went in haste to Bethlehem and found Mary and Joseph and the infant lying in
0:45.1	the manger.
0:46.5	When they saw this, they may know the message that had been told them about this child.
0:52.0	All who heard it were amazed by what had been told them by the shepherds,
0:55.7	and Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart.
1:00.6	Then the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen,
1:04.8	just as it had been told to them.
1:06.9	When eight days were completed for his circumcision, he was named Jesus,
1:15.0	the name given him by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
1:17.9	The gospel of the Lord.
1:21.5	Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
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