The Truth Is, You're Spiritually Burnt and Want to Quit
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Are you feeling tired and spiritually exhausted? Do you feel like throwing in the towel on everything?
Today Fr. Mike offers us a way to evaluate our spiritual practices, service, and prayer based on our relationship, identity, and mission (RIM) to know what we can remove and keep from our Catholic spiritual life.
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| 0:00.0 | Here we go. Is this too dark? I can lighten it up. |
| 0:02.4 | But then again, the clouds are going to come from behind the clouds. |
| 0:05.1 | Sky, the sun's going to come from behind the clouds. |
| 0:09.2 | Hi, my name's Father Mike Smith and this is a center of reasons. |
| 0:11.6 | So someone asked me the other day, I have a lot of these. |
| 0:14.3 | Someone asked me, but it's true. They people ask me questions. |
| 0:16.8 | Someone asked me the other day, they wrote to me and they said that they're just tired. |
| 0:20.6 | They said that when it comes to serving, when it comes to praying, |
| 0:24.9 | when it comes to all the things that they're doing as a good Christian or as a good Catholic, |
| 0:29.2 | they're just exhausted. That they said in their parish, they are part of the choir. |
| 0:34.2 | They serve the youth, they serve the meals, they serve the breakfast, |
| 0:37.8 | they work Bible studies or Sunday school. |
| 0:39.8 | And then when it comes to prayer, they have their rosary, they have their chapel, |
| 0:43.0 | they have their daily mass readings, they listen to the Bible in the ear, |
| 0:45.5 | they do all the things and they said, I'm just tired. |
| 0:50.0 | And I don't know what to do. |
| 0:52.9 | I want to just quit all of it. I'm tired, I don't know what to do. |
| 0:57.0 | I want to quit all of it. And I would say, that is great. |
| 1:00.2 | Why do I say that's great? |
| 1:02.2 | One, is because you're admitting the truth. |
| 1:04.9 | And the truth is, you can't do it all. |
| 1:07.2 | The truth is you're tired. The truth is there is something in you that wants to quit. |
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