How We Use the Word Should

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.9 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

We may be too hard on ourselves when considering how we use the word “should.” Of course, we should go to Mass and pray every day. We should avoid stealing and other sins. However, in the midst of the healthy “shoulds,” there could be unhealthy “shoulds,” like “I should enjoy going to Mass and praying,” or “it shouldn’t be this hard to avoid sin.”

But no one ever said that. No one ever said doing what’s right would be easy. So let’s stop “shoulding” ourselves, and let’s rely on God’s grace to pull us through instead. Our weakness is an opportunity to embrace God’s grace. Fr. Mike says if all the things we should do were easy, we wouldn’t need Jesus.

“For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Corinthians 12:10).

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Presents.
0:08.0	I remember years ago hearing actually her name is Helen Elvarez.
0:11.7	She teaches law, jurisprudence, I believe, out in the East Coast.
0:16.5	She said when I was young, people told me that I could do everything I wanted.
0:21.6	She said, so that's how I tried to begin living my life.
0:24.0	You can do everything you want.
0:25.8	You know if you just work hard enough, if you go after it, you can do everything you want.
0:29.1	Then she said, I realized relatively quickly that I can't actually do everything I want.
0:35.0	I might be able to do anything that I want, like anything I set my mind to,
0:39.6	but I can't do everything I want or everything I set my mind to.
0:43.2	Because of the fact that as human beings, we're limited.
0:47.6	Like as this is the big bombshell news today.
0:51.0	As human beings, you are finite.
0:52.4	I am finite.
0:53.7	There's only so many things that I can do.
0:55.4	There's only so much I can accomplish.
0:57.0	There's only so much I can become that, yes, you might be able to in some ways do anything.
1:05.3	But there's no way I can do everything.
1:07.5	And yet at the same time, we might say, like, oh, Father, are you kidding me?
1:10.2	That's what the video is about.
1:11.8	That is like something that everyone should know that.
1:14.7	Well, yes, everyone maybe should, in the talk about the word shouldn't, it's like, everyone
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