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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

The “Little Things” Are Actually Most Things

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.97.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Saint Teresa of Calcutta once said, "We cannot all do great things. But we can do small things with great love." The reality is that most of our lives are made up of seemingly small decisions and yet they do truly matter in how we are to be judged.

Today, Fr. Mike shares how our faithfulness to God in the small daily decisions actually amounts to the sum of our spiritual life and the growth in our holiness.

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0:00.0

Little things. I don't want to say it, but I will. The little things mean a lot.

0:04.2

And the reality, of course, is that if I'm faithful and little things, I'll be like faithful and great things.

0:08.2

If I'm kind and little things, I'll be kind and big things.

0:19.1

Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitts, and this is Ascension Presents.

0:21.5

So, not too long ago, I was here at the Newman House here at the University.

0:26.3

And we have a little small chapel in our little small, two-car garage that's been converted into a daily mass chapel.

0:32.9

And I came up from Confessions. We have Confessions every day, which is just a great thing.

0:37.5

I love having Confessions every day because, you know, people don't usually just wait for the weekends to sin.

0:42.2

So, why make people wait for the weekends for mercy? So, anyways, back to our story.

0:46.2

I came up from mass, and it was one of those situations where we always have a adoration.

0:49.8

Well, I'm giving you too much information. The point is, when I started mass, the book,

0:55.2

they told the Roman Missile, well, has all the person it, that the priest, you know, leads the people in prayer with.

0:59.6

The book was like right next to the altar, and someone that usually have to kind of reach for it,

1:04.0

but someone that just whoever set up for mass that day had just put it right there next to me.

1:08.2

And I thought, oh my gosh, this is really nice.

1:11.4

And so, I just kind of mentioned that, I said, I don't know who set up for mass today,

1:14.5

but that was just really nice, that you just put this right next to where I'm standing.

1:19.6

And noted, it's a little thing. And I even said this.

1:22.9

I said, I know it might seem like a really small thing, but the reality is that all of life is made up of little things.

1:29.6

And so, I want to just talk about today. It's the fact that all of life is made up of little things.

1:33.7

Like, here's this little small gesture of kindness. Here's this small gesture of mercy,

1:38.0

small gesture of patience you can give to somebody, or that small scowl, right?

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