You Are a Burden

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.9 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Yes, you are a burden. We are all burdens, including Fr. Mike, but we are burdens worth carrying. Many of us choose to deal with our problems on our own because we don’t want to bring our mess into other people’s lives. But the very nature of love is to sacrifice for others, and we cannot have any meaningful relationships in our lives if we do not share our burdens and bear some of the weight of other people’s burdens.

“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”—Galatians 6:2

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0:00.0	How My Name's Father, Mike Schmitz, and this is a center of presents.
0:08.1	So I was talking with someone recently and we were not just me, but was a group of us
0:13.4	who were trying to help them.
0:15.2	It was a kind of situation where they were in a kind of a bad situation, a situation where
0:19.5	they were in a bad situation, and we were trying to, as best we could, as a group of people,
0:24.6	Christians, Catholics, gather around them, remedy this situation.
0:28.0	Every time we had, like, on the verge of being able to really kind of help, really kind
0:32.7	of, yeah, I guess help is the best word.
0:36.0	I don't know.
0:37.0	Me being super vague right now.
0:38.8	They would stop short of allowing us to help, and they would say these words.
0:43.2	Well, I just, I know, but I just don't want to be a burden.
0:46.8	That was the thing.
0:47.8	I just don't want to be a burden on you guys.
0:49.2	Maybe you said those words, maybe you've heard those words of someone that you were trying
0:53.2	to love.
0:54.2	You were trying to care for.
0:55.2	You were trying to help.
0:56.2	And they said, yeah, but I just don't want to be a burden.
1:01.4	That makes sense.
1:02.4	I want to say a moment about that because I want to take a moment to say something about
1:05.6	that.
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