Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and this is Ascent, Descension.

How my name's Father Mike. Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and this is Ascenta Presents. You probably know the scripture in Matthew chapter 25. I'm sure you do. Actually, even if you don't know the number, you know the story. Here is Jesus who tells this parable, and the parable is of the sheep and the goats. It's at the end of time. And he says that there are those who come before the Lord. And Jesus says to them, the Lord himself, says to them, come you, all blessed of my father, and enter the kingdom, essentially, was because I was hungry and you gave me food. I was thirsty, you gave me drink. I was naked, you clothed me. I was in ill and in prison and you visited me. You took care of my needs and people are like, wait, Lord, when did we see you hungry or naked or, et cetera, et cetera, and care for your needs. He said, as lawfony as you did for the least of my brethren, you did it for me. So come into heaven. Then he says to those on his left and says, depart from me, you are cursed because I was hungry

and you didn't feed me. I was naked, you didn't clothe me. I was thirsty, you didn't give me to drink. I was in prison and in hospital, and you did not come to visit me. When did we see you and not do this? Well, as often as you didn't do it for the least of these brethren, least of these ones of mine, you didn't do it for me.

So, Matthew 25, right, you know it. It is one of the most convicting

parables. Every time I read through it, every time I hear it proclaimed, every time I even think

of it, I think, well, here is Jesus. He's giving us the answer to the test, right? When it comes to the end of our lives,

Jesus makes it very, very clear. We're not going to be judged on what did you believe. I mean,

although that's very important, but here in this parable, he's not highlighting that part. He's

highlighting what did you do? Not just what did you do in your life,

but what did you do for the least of my brethren? What did you do for those who were hungry or naked

or thirsty or in prison or in the hospital? What did you do for those who are the least of these,

right? It's like he's giving us the cheat sheet

for the test at the end of our lives.

So I look at that and I think,

golly, Lord, I don't know where to start.

I don't know where to start.

You know, Blessed Pierre Georgeshire Fassadi

or Saint-Pierre-Frasadi,

vending on when you see this he's going to be

declared a saint by the pope uh at one point i remember reading about him i might have been in high school

and it talked about how uh pier georgia frasadie would he would leave his his parents home um

and go around the city around the town and he'd come home shoeless and this one of the

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