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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

What Does the Holy Spirit Actually Do? (Superhero Analogy)

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.97.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

(Today's video/podcast is an excerpt from "Belonging: Baptism in the Family of God." To learn more about this amazing resource visit: https://tinyurl.com/2hms5dbe )

What happens when we get baptized? What exactly is the transformative power of the Holy Spirit? One of the best ways to understand this sacrament’s effect is through analogies of superheroes.

Today, Fr. Mike explains the power of baptism by first recognizing what it is not. Because we are fallen creatures, we can’t be Superman, who has all of his powers within him–we need help from the outside. In other words, we need grace. Grace changes us and alters us internally so that when baptized, we aren’t simply putting on a covering but instead fully healing from our original wounds.

Only one superhero, Fr. Mike believes, encompasses the true power of baptism. This hero was good and was made great, just as the Holy Spirit takes us, good sons and daughters of Christ, and makes us great sons and daughters of Christ.

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0:00.0

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

0:02.5

So we're continuing this whole process, this plan of reusing some content.

0:08.9

This one, I, we made a program for baptism prep called the longing a bunch of years ago.

0:16.1

So you're going to see like quite a bit younger me.

0:19.0

That's, it's all, I remember there's a comedian who said, someone once showed him a picture

0:23.2

and said, hey, this is a picture of me from when I was younger.

0:25.6

And he said, every picture of you is picture of you from when you were younger.

0:28.4

And so this is a video we made when I was younger.

0:30.8

Of course it was.

0:31.8

But the whole point of it is what happens when we get baptized.

0:37.2

Like what happens when the Holy Spirit actually comes upon us?

0:41.2

Is it, is it a covering?

0:42.6

Is it, is it something we take on and take off again?

0:45.4

Or is it something that transforms it?

0:46.8

God's grace something, because God's presence in us, is that something that transforms us from within?

0:52.6

And so I invite you to check this out and just hopefully here's this analogy, here's this image.

0:58.2

Of what happens to us, what happens in us when God's Holy Spirit comes upon us.

1:04.6

God bless.

1:14.8

So superheroes, one of the ways we can look at how we see humanity is through the lens of superheroes.

1:21.8

So the first way I think we can see human beings is like every one of us is like Superman or Wonder Woman.

1:29.2

You know those characters, they are absolutely flawless.

1:34.6

They are perfect.

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