God Ain’t Your Grandma (Making God an Idol)
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
What does God want from us? What does God deserve from us given that he's our creator?
Today, Fr. Mike shows how we can actually turn God into an idol—when we "choose our version of God." This is what happens when we pull God off the shelf when we want him or need him, but put him back on the shelf when we don't. Today, Fr. Mike invites us to ask God what he wants from us.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the time of year when this guy gets paler and paler. |
| 0:04.6 | The days are getting longer, I guess, but man, oh man, and the skin is getting paler. |
| 0:08.5 | I glisten like a diamond in the sun, just like Edward. |
| 0:12.8 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Smith and this is The Scent of Presents. |
| 0:22.2 | So recently, I did this interview, a webinar kind of a thing, with a group called TheVailRemove.com. |
| 0:27.4 | So basically, they have a video called TheVailRemove.com. |
| 0:32.5 | And it's all about what actually happens at the mass. |
| 0:35.8 | Like we go to mass and it's kind of like, okay, we're going through the motions. |
| 0:37.9 | Here we are, it's quiet or it's loud or whatever the thing is. |
| 0:40.7 | But this video is kind of like, no, here is what's being with the action of the mass. |
| 0:45.6 | The father is being worshipped as we offer up the sacrifice of the sun to the father |
| 0:49.8 | and the power of the Holy Spirit, the angels and saints are gathered around. |
| 0:52.4 | It's a pretty cool video and so I got to do a webinar with them. |
| 0:55.3 | And so they were talking about the importance of the mass, what happens in the mass. |
| 0:58.8 | And one of the questions was, Father, what would you say to people who say, you know what, |
| 1:05.0 | I don't have to go to mass every Sunday because God's happy when I show up. |
| 1:10.4 | And He doesn't really mind when I don't show up because that's, He loves me. |
| 1:14.3 | So He's happy when I show up and He doesn't really mind when I don't show up. |
| 1:17.5 | This is going to be, we're going to make more than one video on the importance of the |
| 1:20.1 | mass. |
| 1:21.1 | We already have in the past as well. |
| 1:22.4 | But I think it's really important to try to answer that question, try to respond to that |
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