Homily

Welcome to Sunday homilies with me, Father Mike Schmitz.

I hope today's homily inspires and motivates you.

And I also hope that it leaves you hungry for the one who gave everything to feed you.

That's an act of God's grace.

And so every time someone says yes to the Lord, that yes glorifies God.

And what's a saint? I remember hearing Father Benedict Rochelle, he once said this, he said, a saint is simply someone who says yes to God and then just never stops saying yes.

That's it.

And that's really important for us to understand that a saint is not someone who's perfect.

Shannon Wimpschmidt's family was attending Mass away from her home parish one Sunday when she heard a homily that bothered her so much she was tempted to get up and leave.

The topic was the newly released document, Fiducia Supplicans, which lays out when priests can offer blessings to couples who aren't sacramentally married.

including LGBTQ plus couples and divorced and remarried couples.

Schmidt could tell that the homilist was speaking off the cuff and probably hadn't even read the document.

Schmidt wrote in an essay for US Catholic that, from a pastoral perspective, I questioned the wisdom of taking up this particular topic on the fourth Sunday of Advent, just two days before Christmas, with many visitors in the pews.

Even though she was worried about how the homily would land with her kids, Schmidt didn't walk out.

She talked to her children about her concerns, and she heard later that a parishioner approached the priest and explained why the sermon made her uncomfortable.

The priest was willing to listen and even to revise his homily.

Hey, uh...

Homily was great tonight, right?

Homily, yeah.

Yeah, it was great.

You know, hey, I'm so sorry, but I'm sort of in a hurry, and I'm already, like, halfway to my

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He also talks a little bit about the Holy Spirit in those seven letters.

Already they understand that God is one God in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Although the word Trinity isn't being used yet, the idea is already there from the beginning.

And he talks about the Holy Spirit working in our lives, especially he talks about the Holy Spirit helping us to stay in the unity of the church.

And in that way, he shows us how we ourselves could pray and understand what we're going through every day.

Amen.

Hello, I'm Father Luke Mary Fletcher, CFR, and I'm the chaplain here at the National Blue Army Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in New Jersey.

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You know? And so then that's, I think, always been the ang- the, like, like you were saying about from Hooker, um, the...

It, it's even alluded to in the, the Homily on the Peril of Idolatry.

Yeah.

Like, no, like, if, if it's being r- treated as an idol, which you can do with almost anything, put it away.

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I hope today's homily inspires and motivates you, and I also hope that it leaves you hungry for the one who gave everything to feed you.

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So if you Google Pope Leo XIV, Pompeii, uh, May eighth, you'll find the homily in whatever language you want.

And listen to some of these quotes.

This is our, our Holy Father, um, talking about the rosary.

And of course, he's quoting Pope John Paul, he's quoting Po- all these guys quote each other, Pope Francis.

"The Eucharist is the living rosary, and all the mysteries are found in the Holy Sacrament in an active and vital form." Um, he was, this is, that's Bartolo Longo.

Amen.

Amen.

Hello, I'm Father Luke Mary Fletcher, CFR, and I'm the chaplain here at the National Blue Army Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in New Jersey.

Let us stand.

Hello, I'm Father Luke Mary Fletcher, CFR, and I'm the chaplain here at the National Blue Army Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in New Jersey.

If today's homily touched you in any way, please consider liking, subscribing, or even sharing it with someone who needs encouragement.

May Our Lady keep you close to her son, Jesus.