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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Lent Is a Process—Not an Event

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.97.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Lent has begun and with it our season of penance and fasting. What are you planning on giving up or adding to your spiritual life?

Today, Fr. Mike helps us understand that Lent is less like a crockpot—which you can set and forge—and more like an ongoing, iterative process that requires our continual discernment about how we are drawing closer to Jesus.

God wants to give you more. How will you respond this Lent?
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, excuse me. Sorry. We're gonna do this.

0:05.4

Baby breath, let it all out. Okay, here we go.

0:17.0

Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is a Sensha Presents.

0:19.3

So it is Ash Wednesday. Well, maybe it's Ash Wednesday when you're watching this.

0:22.9

If it is Ash Wednesday when you're watching this, tomorrow is the Thursday after Ash Wednesday

0:27.0

that will be March 3rd, 2022 at 2.30 p.m. Central time. Back in this channel, the Sensha Presents,

0:31.9

there's a guy named Father Mark Tubes. Father Mark Tubes is the author of the Lenton,

0:35.6

Ascension Lenton Companion. He is going to be a journeying basically kind of like with people

0:40.8

throughout the course of Lent with this companion and online. So if you're interested at all,

0:45.6

go to back to this, go go to, no, stay or return to this channel tomorrow at 2.30 Central time

0:52.9

on March 3rd. And if you missed it, maybe they have it recorded. I mean, it's gonna be recorded.

0:56.9

Maybe they'll re-broadcast it. Maybe you can like return to it. Anyways, this Lenton Companion,

1:01.9

it's money. So check it out. It is Lent. I don't know if you noticed this.

1:06.9

You might be part of the virtual front view. We have an online mass every Sunday,

1:11.5

last Sunday. Something went completely wrong with the camera. The audio worked just fine,

1:16.6

but the camera did not work just fine. And so there was no image, there's no picture,

1:20.1

so we just kind of posted the homily. It was one of those situations where I felt badly for

1:23.5

the virtual front view, those folks who are unable to get to mass in person, because we've been praying

1:28.3

with them and for them throughout this whole pandemic. In fact, back in 2020, I don't know if you

1:32.4

heard about this thing in March of 2020, when everything shut down, everything locked down,

1:36.9

one of our thoughts. We didn't even get to say goodbye to our student sign campus. I work on a campus

1:41.2

and they were on their spring break. We were all on spring break. And it was like, oh, I'll see you

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