Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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Every week, Catholic priest Fr. Mike Schmitz delivers powerful homilies based on the Sunday Mass Scripture readings, inviting you to live more fully as the person God created you to be. Engaging and motivating, these 20-30 minute homilies will help ground your faith, fortify your heart, and transform your life. Fr. Mike Schmitz preaches from Duluth Minnesota, where he serves as the Newman chaplain for University Minnesota Duluth’s Bulldog Catholic campus ministry.

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Oct 27, 2019 · 29 min
10/27/19 CompariSIN: The Way of Comparison
Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. In a life of comparison, every person is a potential threat. Comparison is the desire to be “more” than another. At the heart of that desire is fear. Vulnerability breaks through that fear.
Oct 21, 2019 · 21 min
10/20/19 The Hardest Step: The Next Step
Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Continuing to walk in the midst of failure, rejection, and imperfection is a sign of a great life. In your life, you will take hundreds of first steps. But in a great life, you will take thousands of next steps.
Oct 14, 2019 · 19 min
10/13/19 The Hardest Step: The First Step
Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. You just have to start. The first step is the most difficult…but it is also the most important.
Oct 7, 2019 · 21 min
10/06/19 Are You Saved? From What: Lovelessness
Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. How do you know God loves you? How do you know you are saved? Answer: the sacraments.
Sep 29, 2019 · 23 min
09/29/19 Are You Saved? From What: Lifelessness
Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Jesus took from us what was ours so He could give to us what is His to give: grace.
Sep 22, 2019 · 22 min
09/22/19 Are You Saved? From What: Hopelessness
Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Jesus took from us what was ours so He could give to us what is His. This is the free gift that saves us from hopelessness: we are saved by grace through faith working itself out in love.
Sep 16, 2019 · 23 min
09/15/19 Are You Saved? From What: Fatherlessness
Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. I was saved at my Baptism. I am being saved. I hope to be saved. The Father has adopted us in Christ. And He cannot take it back. But do we live as children of the Father?
Sep 9, 2019 · 18 min
09/08/19 First Thing First
Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Out of everything in life, Jesus has to be first.
Sep 1, 2019 · 22 min
09/01/19 Oh, Vanity
Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. It is easy to think of vanity as nothing more than being conceited or overly concerned about one’s appearance. But the vice of vanity comes at a cost: A person could even find themselves living someone else’s life.
Aug 26, 2019 · 13 min
08/25/19 Hope and Discipline
Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. Discipline is the mark of the mature Christian. We have the confidence that what we do makes a difference. The hope that, even when discipline becomes difficult, the discipline makes a difference.
Aug 12, 2019 · 21 min
08/11/19 Living By Faith
Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. A disciple is a decision-maker. Faith is more than belief. It “acts”. It can be seen. Our decisions shape our lives, here on earth and in eternity.
Jul 8, 2019 · 17 min
07/07/19 Declaration
Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. All of Christianity comes down to one question: does God have permission to love you?
Jun 30, 2019 · 19 min
06/30/19 We'll See
Homily from the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Transfer your primary allegiance. When following Jesus, the first things He invites us to give up are safety and control.
Jun 10, 2019 · 17 min
06/09/19 The Peace of Christ
Homily from Pentecost Sunday. The promised Holy Spirit gives many gifts, but few are more powerful and profound than the Spirit’s gift of peace.
May 13, 2019 · 18 min
05/12/19 #Fail: Failure is Feedback
Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter. Failure either gives us clarity and conviction or course correction. Failure is not final and failure is not fatal.
May 6, 2019 · 23 min
05/05/19 #Fail: The Only Way to Fail
Homily from the Third Sunday of Easter. The only way for failure to be final is if you stop. Even sin is not final if you don’t stop. God has a call for you that is not erased by failure.
Apr 29, 2019 · 25 min
04/28/19 #Fail: Free to Fail
Homily from Divine Mercy Sunday. Failure is the one necessary prerequisite for God’s greatest gift. Many people battle with perfectionism. God’s mercy in the midst of failure is His remedy for the fear that failure is the end.
Apr 14, 2019 · 23 min
04/14/19 Behind Enemy Lines: Stand
Homily from Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion. If I live in such a way that I merely follow the crowd, I will find myself praising Jesus on Sunday and crying out for His Crucifixion on Friday.
Apr 7, 2019 · 33 min
04/07/19 Behind Enemy Lines: The Father of Lies
Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Lent. There is no need to fear, but there is a need to fight. Behind enemy lines, we find ourselves in a battle with the Enemy of God. But the Catholic Christian has been given the tools to engage in the fight and thrive with the strength provided by God Himself.
Apr 1, 2019 · 22 min
03/31/19 Behind Enemy Lines: Let Go...and Come Inside
Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent. We have different experiences, but the same enemy. While all of us struggle with different sins and temptations, we all ultimately have the same enemy: pride. Pride is a chameleon and can disguise itself in many different ways. Ultimately, pride will work to keep you holding onto something other than God and to remain outside the Father’s house. Telling the truth…and hearing the Father’s voice…is the way to let go of what we cling to and come inside. Mass Readings from March 31, 2019: Joshua 5:9-12 Psalms 34:2-72 Corinthians 5:17-21 Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 Download the Homily Study

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

10/27/19 CompariSIN: The Way of Comparison

10/20/19 The Hardest Step: The Next Step

10/13/19 The Hardest Step: The First Step

10/06/19 Are You Saved? From What: Lovelessness

09/29/19 Are You Saved? From What: Lifelessness

09/22/19 Are You Saved? From What: Hopelessness

09/15/19 Are You Saved? From What: Fatherlessness

09/08/19 First Thing First

09/01/19 Oh, Vanity

08/25/19 Hope and Discipline

08/11/19 Living By Faith

07/07/19 Declaration

06/30/19 We'll See

06/09/19 The Peace of Christ

05/12/19 #Fail: Failure is Feedback

05/05/19 #Fail: The Only Way to Fail

04/28/19 #Fail: Free to Fail

04/14/19 Behind Enemy Lines: Stand

04/07/19 Behind Enemy Lines: The Father of Lies

03/31/19 Behind Enemy Lines: Let Go...and Come Inside