Reading the "Signs" from God

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.9 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike offers the antidote of common sense for the anxiety that often comes after making a big decision. As a campus minister, he sees many students who feel like they made the wrong decision to come to college because things are not the way they imagined. To people in these situations, he advises them to stay the course. Paraphrasing St. Ignatius of Loyola and C.S. Lewis, he says to never change your course in times of desolation when that same course rang true for you in times of consolation. Give yourself a season, time to figure things out.

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0:00.0	How many of my experiments and this is essential to present?
0:09.4	Right now, life is moving and people are going off to school, people are going off to seminary,
0:15.0	people are going starting their formation in religious communities, and I live on a college
0:20.1	campus.
0:21.1	And so that's part of my reality.
0:22.5	Part of my life is like, here's all the students.
0:24.6	Here's one of the things that happens.
0:25.8	So we have this expectation of the new school thing.
0:28.0	Here's my major, here's where I'm going to live, here's my dorm, here's the college
0:30.8	I chose.
0:31.8	Here's what seminary is going to be like, and here's what I chose, and this is going
0:34.0	to be awesome.
0:35.0	Here's religious life, and the community is going to be like this.
0:37.5	And then the reality and the expectation don't meet in the place we've thought we thought
0:42.3	they don't match.
0:43.9	And so then all of a sudden, we recognize, I don't every day, I don't wake up super jacked
0:50.7	to be here.
0:51.7	I don't get out of bed in seminary, I just like, I can't wait to go to morning prayer at
0:55.8	6 a.m. and I can't wait to go to classes about this, or we have this, like we have a
0:59.9	major and we're like, okay, I was pre-med, but I don't really like chem 101.
1:04.4	What does that mean?
1:05.9	And not excited about seminary, what does that mean?
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