"Winning?" | 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Mike's Homily)
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What does a "win" look like?
There are times when we accomplish our goals...and then we still feel that there ought to be something more. There are times when "winning" is just as empty as "losing". In those moments, we have the opportunity to step back and ask what we are shooting for. These are the moments we can ask "what does a 'win' look like?"
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brighten up said the sun to the moon, the moon said it's you that light's up my world
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Father Mike you have won a medal in Gods olympics ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
So this is the guy who convinced me I need attend catholic mass..thanks
Don't just attend. Belong, Be a member. ❤.
Thanks I'm headed that way. Been attending mass every week for a few months now.. father said you'll have have to darken the church..so here I am..
Best sermon ever….
Thank you, Fr Mike, for letting me re-think what my greatest win should be - that is, while alive, to see my husband and children, family friends and relatives (and everyone), be convicted, converted and committed to be faithful followers of the Catholic Faith; and when I die, to see us all together in heaven with God. This I pray ... Amen.
My win is getting my family to Heaven and taking care of my elderly dad with dementia as he took care of me as a child 🙏🏻
We will never get tired of hearing you speak Father Mike! You will continue to help bring people to God far after you and I are gone. You are a gift from God!
Fr. Mike, thank you for your inspiring, comforting and wise words. May God keep you always.
Father Mike you are gifted and best of all humble. God bless you and your family 🙏🙏🙏
My greatest win is seeing what incredible Mom’s my daughters have become. But it also gives me so much sadness that their Mom is not here to witness it as we lost her 9 years ago from cancer. My daughters are an amazing testament to their Mom.
That’s so sweet of you.
I know that God knows what I'm going through bc I get answers through Fr Mike's sermons. I find myself in awe of God's way of reaching out to all of us. Thank you Fr Mike. You just don't know how much you help.
Me too! God always answers me through him! He is a true gift from God! He is one big reason I have such a close relationship with Jesus now! I pray for Father Mike all the time. 🙏🏻
Yes, he's... gifted ✝️
Thank you father Mike. You’re wise beyond your years. You have a way of breaking things down that just soothes my Heart and makes me so grateful to belong to such a graceful and kind God.
I turn 70 in 56 days, still working as a physician and teaching and sharing my faith. Thank you, Father Mike, for also addressing the time when that no longer happens. To look back and say Thank you, Jesus, for letting me get into Georgetown Medical School, for my wife and children who lived with my long hours, but especially looking forward to "Nothing but you, Lord" future that compares little to the past.
Good on you!! The response of Thomas Aquinas was cited by Bishop Barron as his ‘slogan’ ( not correct term) in latin for his mission as a Bishop -so beautiful!!
be sure to turn the 70 back around on the birthday cake, show them at 70 age is only a number too, when ya can still make another laugh
Thank you Father.
Your homilies are so rich and moving.
Thank you for sharing your love for Jesus so deeply.
Listen to the Bible in a year and LOVED it now I’m doing catechism in a year. Loving it.🙏✝️
Thank you and god bless you Father Mike 🙏🙏🙏
Absolutely loved this! Thank you for your relatability and words of wisdom. It brings a sense of peace and calmness when I watch your homilies. God Bless 🙏
Thank you, Lord, for sustaining me. Jesus, I trust in you
Thank you Father Mike, you give me hope and keep reminding me of God’s eternal Mercy. Thank you for sharing your faith and wisdom. Currently reading Made for Love, thank you for your encouragement.
Today is best day of my life I’m grateful to have this day
Greatest goal to be present with our Lord 24/7 surrendering everything of this world to him and everyone
children, husband, friends, family, strangers, health, money, security,
And For them to know this Love of Our Lord every single one of them❤🙏🏼
Beautiful
Lord, thank you for journeying with me, for all your blessings and graces.
What's my great achievement - to be with you, to receive and welcome you, you provided me with my daily bread, to share you with others, hoping to bring at least one person to know you
My deepest desire is to spend eternity with you, My Lord and My God ❤
Thank you Lord for the gift of Father Mike Schmitz, my Parish Priests and formator, they are your instruments to mold me to be a better person
My Lord and My God I Trust in You 🙏
Fr. Mike you made the Spiritual Olympics!😊🙏❤️✝️🕊❤️🔥
Winning: Such an important subject to talk about. I wrestle with this
Thank you Father Mike ❤️🔥
Good morning!
🤍
Thank you for your words. Last weekend and this one they seem to sit very well in my heart and soul.
I delivered a devotional message this last Tuesday morning as our private Christian school met to kick off the staff and faculty's school year. I spoke about how vulnerable we are after a big victory or just before embarking on a significant task. I have struggled this week, after that small but meaningful experience. And I struggle to find ways in which the Lord wants to speak to me, to love me, and to give me a meaningful win in my own depression. And you, Fr. Mike, give this homily using the vulnerability story, the word "win," and have spoken to me, a Protestant who is continually discerning both the unity of the whole church and the possibility God would call me to the Catholic expression of our faith. What a meaningful word that I receive as from the Lord. Grateful again for you and Ascension. And, blessed by the Lord's words to me.
Good friendship is one of the biggest win of a lifetime. Relationships that comes from the Lord are what can and does sustain us in and through life.
God bless you Fr. Mike.
Father, you’re a gift from God. An absolutely gift from God. Praying for you. I love your heart.
God bless you Father Mike Schmitz.
Father Mike, you have the spirit that guides you.Thank Jesus for you in our lives 🙏.
Thanks!
What's a win .just be yourself,n life is ordinary. Thsnku father 😊
Thank you for such an insightful homily. Your words regarding prayer (even when you don't feel like it) reaffirms for me to keep going during dry seasons.
You really nailed this one father!! Wow!! My gf could see a light around you for this one.
❤ is the legacy
Fr. your Sunday sharings , starts off my week on Monday in Malaysia😊
Thank you
Please pray for celebrities who feel they must do anything to say relevant. Please, Jesus, remind them that only God will fulfill, not fame or money. Amen.
Thank you Father!
Please pray for my family and my children 🙏
Thank you, Father Mike, for this enlightening sermon. So very meaningful!
Thank you Fr. Mike. Every Sunday sermon gives me something to examine and try to put in practice in the following week.
I live in Guatemala - where I hope I can get you to come again, someday soon. I pray for you every day. May God make you the kind of saint we place right next to the altar.
Thanks be to God.
Love Father Mike ! He feeds my spirit!
For me...the Win is heaven as St Paul said...the eternal crown. So always I am servant of the Lord..."Master now what you want me to do for you?" Nothing else but wait for God to tell me...☺️🐦
Thank you father Mike!
So good!
Amen
Thank you, Fr. Mike! ❤️🙏🏻
Wow! Mind and Spirit medicine.. I have so prayed for these words. I am a nurse for over 30 yrs. I remember the day a nun placed that joy of serving people and doing Gods work. A twofer! Win win. Now I thinking of retirement and those exact words .. now what? So yesterday at mass I asked Him. I’m a planner so the anxiety is almost overwhelming. Now I have food for the journey. Thank you for speaking that message.
Thank you father
That helped me a lot…as it does every Sunday!
God bless you my father always and forever
Jesus, I trust in you
Amen
I have never been so seen. I retired and the past 2 years I've been "detransitioning". It's not for the weak but my win is exactly what Fr. Is saying right here.
My win is knowing that my job is not the be all. I am in a crossroad in finding out what I want to do and I am in an incredible position to find out. But I want to know Jesus and God more in the process
Thanks! I love your message you are so wonderful ❤
Amen! Such an important message.
This homily really touched me. Thank you Father Mike.
AMEN!!!
It is such an amazing blessing that you are able to make events in the Bible so relevant to events happening today!.
What is a win in our daily life?
This helped me.
Thank you so much Fr. Mike 🤍
Wow. I am doing BIAY this year. We passed the stories of Elijah and Elisha, and I felt like I just didn’t sit with it enough. I didn’t understand it. For whatever reason, I wasn’t absorbing it. I kept thinking, “I have to go back and revisit that. I have to do more research, and I just have t found the time when I could be still enough to listen. God must have heard my prayer/concern and said, “okay. I’ll explain it again.” 😊 and from the same source! 😂 thank you, Fr. Mike!
Love this! I know exactly what you mean!
Thank you for the hope of a new purpose, by Gods grace in my life. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻📿📿📿❤️
Me too! I am on day 178❤
Please continue with sharing online. Your reflections have helped me in so many occasions. May our good Lord continue to bless and inspire you so you can continue to be a blessing to many 🙏
Thank you 💕🌹
❤🙏
The win is what you give … my goal is to die well as a gift to my children and grandchildren.
Thank you!
Thank you Father Mike….my best days are not behind me. I just need to listen to God, follow the Way and be ready for the next task.
Thanks for sharing your ministry. I am a cradle catholic at 70, and find your teachings very inspiring. Keep up the good work. Jerome Manhattan Ks., also a university town.
The best day of your life after doing the degree that they want,vis endless the best day of their life,
Increíble! Gracias Fr. Mike! You're awesome!
Third time listening to this, it is SO amazing... 😮☺️🙂↕️ [roots around in digital purse for digital wallet...😁👍] God Bless You, who are seeing this!!🌬️💨💙❣️🙏
God bles you Father.. you are a blessing to the Church
You always have something important to say and make the Gospel so relevant. I wish you could promote the Bible in a Year sometimes! I’m a big fan and have done the journey once. I am going to do it again!
I really needed to hear this, thank you Father Mike
How is it that every homily applies to what I’m going through??! 🤯 definitely a win 🥇
Fr. Mike Schmitz, the John Cena of the Catholic Church.
Fr Mike you remind me of St Thomas:
Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of Your light penetrate the darkness of my understanding.
Take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, an obscurity of sin and ignorance!
Give me a keen understanding, a retentive memory, and the ability to grasp things correctly and fundamentally!
Grant me the talent of being exact in my explanations and the ability to express myself with thoroughness and charm and wit!
Point out the beginning, direct the progress, and help in the completion. I ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen❤🙏❤
"No" I've brought shame and embarrassment to my family, caused others to sin. I worry about not winning Jesus after this life. He has the power to transform lives that surrender to him, yet my life is a mess and I don't see alot of fruit in my life.
Philippians 3, especially v. 7,8: But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ...I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.
I don't think we wanted to win so much as we wanted people not to fail us,
It's like we had swapped the win for the hope of the people wouldn't lose wouldn't fail us,
Everything is proportional.... america is populous & has $$$, so proportionally will have more medals if their athletes are relatively good.... kudos to all that were able to compete
"We want to raise children who would love coming home and spending time with us as adults"*
❤❤❤Exactly that. Thank you so much, now I need to find my other half to accomplish this goal 🙏
*then how to that... 🙄....🙏🙏🙏
Your expression in the thumbnail says much. When faced with a choice between my children and anything else, I must choose my children. Would that include all of God's children? Of course! But for now my family is under my care, and that cannot be denied.
Thank you.
More suffering for your sake. So that I may grow in love with our Lord.
Well he could tell the young people, they could think about different degrees they might want, draw it on a blackboard with chalk will help their brain better,
Michael Phelps is phenomenal to be sure but I think his medal total is a bit misleading. There are other phenomenal athletes in other sports that have fewer medal opportunities each Olympics so they cannot do anything close to him in the medal count simply because they don’t have as many opportunities to medal. But why should it matter?
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Nope, I boycotted the olympics (personal choice).
Same not watching that satanic crap
Considering the mock of Jesus last supper in the Olympics, why did you not boycott watching it on TV. All it takes for evil to succeed is for get men to do nothing 😢
Fr. Mike. You always help me by your words. Thank you. I can relate to the parents whose win was to enjoy their adult children.
I stopped watching the Olympics after the opening ceremonies with the nasty display of the "Last Supper"! I loved seeing Celine Dion sing & was Praising GOD for seeing our prayers for her manifested - then seeing the manikins with cut off heads, I began to get disgusted!
Jesus will point us to God’s glory forever:
In JOhn 10:38, Jesus said “though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that *_the Father is in me, and I in him.”_* It is the Lord God that possesses Jesus. In Proverbs 8:22-36, it is Jesus who speaks of how he was “brought forth,” which comes from the word _poeisis_ in Greek meaning “to bring forth into existence.” In John 10:32, Jesus said, “many good works have I shewed you *_from my Father.”_* In John 16:25-27 Jesus said, he will *show us plainly of the Father* to those who believe he came out from God [God’s foreknowledge]. In John 14:10, only God’s power and spirit within Jesus does all things. In Matthew 12:28, Jesus said he cast out demons by God’s spirit, not of his own spirit. In John 7:16-18, Jesus professes that none of his teachings are of himself. In John 8:28, Jesus states that he only does what the Father has taught him. Jesus is the way, truth, and life that leads to the one true God, his Father and OUR Father. Amen.
The beginning ceremony at Paris was a mockery of our Catholic faith, it was Blasphemy. We've been praying for the reparation of such an abomination. against
What Father you didn’t boycott the Olympics after what they did
Peace be. I saw and article - Are You Truly A Roman Catholic, by Catholic Journey - The Parable of the Rich Man is being preached to Roman Catholics year after year stressing the statement Jesus Christ said to a Non Roman Catholic, " The Rich Man to go an give away all he has in order to obtain heaven". Your homily backs it when you men Jim Carry's wish.
My statement to all Roman Catholic, father and mother how honorable will one be to his/her children if he or she would give away everything he/she own at the same time being a father and mother? Did God Our Father model such for us? No. Our Father in heaven did not give up his heaven, his throne, his Title as God to the devil or even to Man, to-date. This why it is fun-loving to hear Roman Catholic Father who is not A Roman Emperor Father being so efficiently scribed makes such lighted statement - I am a Christian instead of staying I am a Roman Catholic, who God Our Father adopted and giver to His adopted children Roman Catholics. At Baptism, we obtain the Title Roman Catholic so why now we mature in body some Roman Catholic wants us to be like the devil? With manners to all Christians, I am not a Christian. Thank you Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy. Sorry for some Roman Catholics who wanna be christian but I am glad to be a adopted by Our Father in heaven who makes me His child, a Roman Catholic. What is my name, Alpha- Roman, Omega- Catholic. Alpha- Jesus, Omega- Christ. No, No, not Jesus Christian. Therefore, a sinner, a Roman Catholic, is not Alpha- Anti, Omega- Christ. Know your today for tomorrow might be too late Roman Catholis. Amen. 19:20
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Thanks!