When You Have to Go It Alone
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
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🗓️ 8 April 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The Wednesday of Holy Week is known to many as “Spy Wednesday”, but it’s also known as the “Day of Aloneness.” The backstory behind this moniker can have a profound impact on the way we live our lives.
There are two people in the Holy Week narrative that experience profound loneliness: Jesus and Judas. There’s an honorable form of aloneness that we feel when we’re doing something we ought to be doing (walking a road that no one else can), but there’s also a sadder form of loneliness that exists when we are doing something we shouldn’t be doing.
Today, Father Mike explains the difference between the aloneness Jesus felt during Holy Week, and what Judas felt.
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| 0:00.0 | I know Easter has already happened. I know that Holy is already passed. I've been so convicted |
| 0:04.2 | that I want to talk about what they call spy Wednesday. I want to talk about this for two reasons. |
| 0:21.3 | How many times father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Resents. One of my nieces, she texted me |
| 0:25.0 | on the evening of spy Wednesday and she said, text me happy spy Wednesday and then she had the |
| 0:30.2 | emoji of like a mind being blown. I was thinking what did someone tell her about spy Wednesday |
| 0:35.4 | that was able to blow the mind of my third grade niece who had to borrow her older sister's phone |
| 0:40.6 | to text her uncle, father Mike Wednesday Holy Week is spy Wednesday or what you might call the day |
| 0:45.3 | of aloneness. This is the day that Jesus knew the next day he'd be handed over the next day he'd be |
| 0:50.3 | betrayed and the passion would begin. It's the day of aloneness. It captivates my imagination. It |
| 0:55.7 | captivates my heart because there's two ways, you know some of the sisters, the Franciscan sisters, |
| 0:59.5 | the Eucharist who talk about these days of Holy Week, they really dive deeply into this day of |
| 1:04.4 | aloneness. There's two ways we can experience aloneness and those two ways are experienced both by Jesus |
| 1:09.3 | and by Judas. I think it's called spy Wednesday right Judas. But the aloneness of Jesus and the |
| 1:16.0 | aloneness of Judas are so closely united and yet so different. What do I mean? Well, there's a |
| 1:25.8 | certain kind of good aloneness that we have to that we have to when we're doing something we ought |
| 1:30.0 | to be doing we experience a level of degree of aloneness. Think about if you've ever done this, |
| 1:35.5 | if you've ever been dropped off at the airport, maybe you studied abroad where you're going on a |
| 1:39.2 | long, long trip right or you want a trip where you have to go alone. You're the only one that you |
| 1:43.0 | know who's going to this place. I remember doing this maybe the first time and back in the day, |
| 1:47.6 | you know, before 2001, your family, your friends could walk with you to the gate. And I remember just |
| 1:53.0 | they, I mean, it's so interesting even now when you can't get walked to the gate, you know, so maybe |
| 1:56.9 | someone just drops you off at the curb and that's that's nice, you know, whatever get out of the car. |
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