Saying Goodbye, Starting Over, and Transitioning
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Change is always hard. Transitions in life are difficult. Goodbyes are never easy. Endings are rarely joyful. But today, Fr. Mike suggests that beginnings are even more crucial. He encourages us to take 3 steps whenever we start over, and to let each one of ourselves “be a beginner.”
Be patient with yourself.
Don’t freak out.
And be willing to ask for help.
Fr. Mike has way more to say about trusting God, and a great place to start is his book Untroubled by the Unknown: Trusting God in Every Moment (https://tinyurl.com/25xulter). We hope it's a blessing to you!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, oh this is just like the topic, maybe kind of a little bit, |
| 0:04.2 | clicks. Okay, here we go. Center, I'll go. |
| 0:07.9 | How many is Father Mike Schmitz and this is a sense of resents. So we are in the time of year, |
| 0:12.1 | at least I'm recording this in the time of year where it's kind of the middle to end of summer, |
| 0:16.0 | I mean depending on when you actually measure summer I guess. But the middle of July in our diocese |
| 0:20.8 | is where priests make their transitions from whatever parish. If they have a new assignment, |
| 0:24.3 | they go from the old parish to the new parish. Also I have so many students who are in this time of |
| 0:29.1 | the graduated and now they're looking for jobs or you know they had a job and a lot of time, |
| 0:34.4 | summer is the time of transition. And one of the things about those transitions right from |
| 0:38.4 | maybe a further priest of mine going from one parish to another someone going from being student |
| 0:42.8 | to now being the master. No, but it's student to being you know an employee of some or from one |
| 0:48.8 | job to another job. There's this thing called transition right and there's there's say I'm |
| 0:56.4 | remember one of our one of our missionaries once phrased it like this that she said that |
| 1:00.6 | change happens to us. Transition transition is something we cooperate with something like that. |
| 1:06.6 | I'm probably butchering what she meant to say but change is something that is unavoidable right. |
| 1:11.1 | Change is something that occurs to us even if we don't want it to happen. The ability to make |
| 1:15.6 | a transition right to actually engage with that change to make the transition from one place or |
| 1:20.7 | one thing from being in one state to another involves our cooperation. It involves requires our |
| 1:28.2 | participation if that makes any sense. So when people go from priest from one parish to another |
| 1:34.8 | when people go from being students to being employees if they go from one job to another job or any |
| 1:38.9 | kind of situation in life, any state in life that involves this change the question is am I going |
| 1:43.8 | to transition and one of the elements of transitioning well is saying goodbye well and so that's a thing |
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