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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Wish You Had Spoken Up? 3 Things You Need Next Time

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.97.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

You're with a group of friends and they start gossiping about another friend; what do you say? You're with a coworker and they take the Lord's name in vain and blaspheme the Catholic Church; how do you respond?

Today Fr. Mike challenges us to speak up for the truth and why you or I might have these three spiritual defects, lacking in wisdom, courage or love.

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0:00.0

Sorry, I'm going to start over again because why not start over again?

0:03.5

You know, give all this time, all this footage, all this.

0:07.6

How my name is Father Mike Schmidt's and this is a sense of resistance.

0:10.0

So have you ever been in this kind of situation where it could be,

0:14.8

it could be something like this like maybe someone starts talking about the church in a way

0:19.1

that's really disparaging or we're kind of really ugly or they talk about someone that you know,

0:23.8

a joint, a mutual friend that in a way they're talking about them as being really disparaging

0:28.8

or really ugly or basically kind of one of those situations where I'm even talking about the Lord

0:34.4

and it's like, okay, you're talking about God but you're talking in a way that just like, I,

0:38.8

this is, this is, again, disparaging, this is really ugly. I don't, sometimes it's like there's

0:43.9

no other way to say it, really ugly, but you don't say anything. Have you ever had that kind of

0:49.3

situation where, okay, something's happening and I didn't say anything or it could even be the

0:53.7

kind of situation. I mean, there was a show years ago, maybe it's still on, but it's called,

0:57.9

what would you do? And they basically have all these cameras set up and they create a very

1:02.5

uncomfortable situation. Maybe it's an unjust situation, maybe it's a cruel situation, maybe it's just

1:08.8

a really weird situation and they ask people to film them and see what they do in that cruel,

1:14.3

unjust or unusual situation. We have that question like, what would I do in those moments?

1:19.0

If you've ever been in that situation and my guess is that as a human being, you've been in that

1:22.8

situation, we can look back and say, okay, what went wrong? Like, why didn't I say something?

1:30.2

Why didn't I stand up? And the way I see it, there's, there's a couple of different options.

1:34.2

And there's three main options and I think there might be a fourth at the end, but we can look

1:38.7

back and examine our hearts and say, okay, I didn't speak up whether that was, you know, I didn't

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