Family: Your Shortcut to Holiness

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.9 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike explains how being at home with our family is one of God’s favorite ways to make us holy—if we are honest about the areas where we need to grow in our relationships with family members.

Fr. Mike has observed that college students often have a profound encounter with Jesus through their college’s Catholic community. They find that they are praying more, receiving the sacraments more, participating in more service opportunities, and so on. Then they get back home for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or—in the most recent cases—a lockdown. They realize, in their interactions with their family that they’re not as holy as they thought they were.

Why do we struggle to be loving toward those whom we claim to love the most? It’s harder to love family members sometimes because—Fr. Mike explains—you didn’t get to choose this group, and they can make demands on you.

It’s easy to be generous when it’s on your own terms.

Our relationships with our family can reveal the impatience and lack of generosity inside us—the unedited version of us.

Be honest with God and admit that the things you thought you defeated are still somewhere inside you. Surrender these things to Jesus. Don’t be afraid to be vulnerable with your family. They love you. Ask family members where they want you to grow this week.

Pursue holiness at home. Like St. Teresa of Calcutta said, find your own Calcutta.

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0:00.0	If you're not holy at home, are you actually holy?
0:07.0	Hi, I'm your brother Mike Smith and this is a sentra presents.
0:15.7	Here is something that happens to almost every one of our students when they get to college,
0:20.7	when they get to campus.
0:21.7	They get here.
0:22.7	And if they've had an encounter with Jesus, they start growing.
0:25.8	And they have this group of people around them that is helping them grow.
0:29.5	And they're praying every day.
0:30.8	Maybe they're going to mass more than once a week.
0:34.6	Maybe they're going to the sacraments.
0:35.6	Maybe they have the service opportunities where they're serving the people around them.
0:39.7	They're giving them, being generous.
0:41.2	They're growing.
0:42.2	They're growing in their spiritual lives.
0:43.7	And they're growing so much that they get to the point where they start to believe
0:47.2	the fact that they're like, oh my gosh, I used to be impatient.
0:49.6	No, I'm so much more patient.
0:50.6	I used to not be very generous.
0:51.6	But now I'm so generous.
0:53.0	I used to be less than gracious.
0:55.7	But now I'm really, really graceful with people.
0:58.3	This is so good.
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