What the Death of Pope Francis Teaches Us
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In the wake of Pope Francis’s passing, Fr. Mike Schmitz shares a powerful reflection on loss, legacy, and the enduring mission of the Church.
He reminds us that while every soul is uniquely irreplaceable, the roles we hold can be entrusted to others because our identity is rooted not in what we do, but in who we are. May this truth bring you great hope as we look ahead to the future of the Church, and reflect on our own lives.
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| 0:00.0 | I think that the Catholic Church does a lot of things really, really well. One of those things |
| 0:03.7 | that the church does really, really well, you can see right now with the passing of Pope Francis. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm going to get to that in just a second. I'm going to get to that in just a second. I'm my name is |
| 0:11.3 | Mike Schmitz, and this is Essential Presents. So a great holy man, really fun. He was a great |
| 0:22.7 | youth minister. And so when he was leaving town with his wife, it was one of the situations where |
| 0:27.5 | everybody was just like lamenting the fact that he was leaving, which is good because again, |
| 0:31.7 | he was an incredible youth minister. At one point, though, he said it was such a relief because one of |
| 0:36.6 | the people that he knew, trusted, worked with, all these kind of things came up and said, though, he said it was such a relief because one of the people that he knew, |
| 0:38.0 | trusted, worked with, all these kind of things came up and said, Nick, you know, you have been |
| 0:42.9 | a great blessing to this parish. |
| 0:45.0 | And you've been such a huge help for all of our families and for all these people here. |
| 0:53.0 | But I just want to let you know, everyone's replaceable, |
| 0:57.0 | and you are too. And he told me this. And he had the biggest smile. He said, I was so grateful |
| 1:03.4 | that this person said that. Because, of course, to this point, everyone was saying, like, no, |
| 1:07.9 | we'll never replace you. We can never, you know, get another youth minister like you but to hear those words you know you're great and we really love you and we're going to miss you |
| 1:16.5 | but just remember everyone's replaceable i have thought about those words so much for over the course of |
| 1:23.1 | the years ever since nix left because i was like, well, yes, but no, right? |
| 1:27.6 | Because, I mean, everyone's, no one's, no one's, no one's, everyone is irreplaceable. |
| 1:33.2 | Like there's, there's an intrinsic dignity to every human being that is not replaceable. |
| 1:38.5 | And I was reflecting on this with the death of Pope Francis because the church simultaneously does these two really massive things. |
| 1:49.0 | Someone dies. In this case, the Holy Father dies. And the church pauses and says, okay, we're going to have |
| 1:55.7 | a number of days where the Pope, the Holy Father is going to rest in state, where we are going to honor the fact |
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