Episode 123149: 3/15/26 Autobiography: Who Will You Be?

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 14 March 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent

At the end of the story, who will you be?

What you seek shapes what you see. Look for hope. Look for joy. Look for goodness. The things you train your eyes to notice will shape the person you become. At the end of the story, who will you be?

Mass Readings from March 15, 2026: 1 Samuel 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a Psalm 23: 1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6Ephesians 5:8-14

John 9:1-41

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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	And with your spirit.
0:32.8	A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.
0:35.8	Glory to you, Lord.
0:37.4	Chapter 9, verses 1 through 41.
0:40.4	As Jesus passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
0:44.8	His disciples asked him,
0:46.3	Rabbi, who sinned?
0:47.5	This man or his parents that he was born blind?
0:50.5	Jesus answered, neither he nor his parents sinned.
0:53.7	It is so that the works of God may be visible
0:55.9	through him. We have to do the works of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is coming,
1:01.7	when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When he had said this,
1:08.1	he spat on the ground, made clay with the saliva, and smeared the
1:11.1	clay on his eyes, and said to him, go wash in the pool of Salaam, which means scent.
1:17.3	So he went and washed, and came back, able to see.
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