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Ascension

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.

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

Homily from the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
 
Remember you will die. Remember you have died.
 
We are called to live a new life. But we cannot live a new life until we have allowed our old life to die. We need to remember that we will die in the future. Christians also have the chance to remember that we already have died.
 Mass Readings from August 3, 2025: Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23 Psalm 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-14 and 17Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11 
Luke 12:13-21

08/03/25 Memento Mori

Homily from the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
 
The battle of prayer.
 
Every one of us knows that we ought to pray. But not all of us know how. In addition, not all of us know that prayer can often be a challenge...it is a battle.
 Mass Readings from July 27, 2025: Genesis 18:20-32 Psalm 138:1-3, 6-8Colossians 2:12-14 
Luke 11:1-13

07/27/25 Teach Us to Pray

Homily from the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
 
Do it for the love of Jesus.
 
We all have a lot to do. We may even be tempted to resent all that we have to do. But if we do it for the right reason, even the most difficult tasks take on new power and new purpose.
 Mass Readings from July 20, 2025: Genesis 18:1-10 Psalm 15:2-5Colossians 1:24-28 
Luke 10:38-42

07/20/25 The Reason Why

Homily from the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
 
Knowing is nice. Doing makes the difference.
 
We can know exactly what to do, but unless we act on what we know, nothing will change.
 Mass Readings from July 13, 2025: Deuteronomy 30:10-14 Psalm 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36, 37Colossians 1:15-20 
Luke 10:25-37

07/13/25 Doing

Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
 
There are some things worth risking everything for.
 
Those who signed the Declaration of Independance risked everything. Every Christian who follows Jesus is risking everything in order to have the Lord. 
 Mass Readings from July 5, 2025: Isaiah 66:10-14 Psalm 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20Galatians 6:14-18 
Luke 10:1-12, 17-20

07/05/25 Signers

Homily from the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul.
 
Jesus came to establish a Church.
 
The Church is an essential part of God's Kingdom on earth. Jesus is the King. Peter (and his successors) are the stewards of the King. This role has the authority to teach, guide, and govern.
 Mass Readings from June 29, 2025: Acts 12:1-11 Psalm 34:2-92 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18 
Matthew 16:13-19

6/29/25 Pillar and Foundation: Upon this Rock

Homily from the Solemnity of Corpus Christi.
 
Jesus did not say "Read this in memory of Me." He said "Do this in memory of Me."
 
The greatest gift Jesus gave us is Himself in the Eucharist. And yet, even people who love Jesus very much can miss this gift without the guidance and teaching of the Church.
 Mass Readings from June 22, 2025: Genesis 14:18-20 Psalm 110:1-41 Corinthians 11:23-26 
Luke 9:11-17

6/22/25 Pillar and Foundation: Greatest Gift

Homily from the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.
 
Even when the Bible seems clear, earnest Christians can get it wrong. We need a Church to tell us when we are wrong.
 
The most important revelation of God is His own identity. From the beginning, Christians have needed more than the words of Sacred Scripture to guide them into all truth. We have needed the Holy Spirit leading the Church through error to know the depths of God's identity.
 Mass Readings from June 15, 2025: Proverbs 8:22-31 Psalm 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9Romans 5:1-5 
John 16:12-15

06/15/25 Pillar and Foundation: Necessary Teacher

Homily from Pentecost Sunday.
 
Without an infallible Teacher, an infallible Book is a worthless book.
 
The Church is messy. But it is also holy. And has been given the ability and the authority of Jesus to teach. Even in the midst of the brokenness of the human element of the Church, the Church is still the Infallible Teacher of Divine Revelation.
 Mass Readings from June 7, 2025: Acts 2:1-11 Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 341 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13 
John 20:19-23

06/08/25 Pillar and Foundation: Infallible Teacher

Homily from the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord.
 
Jesus didn't give us the Bible. He gave us the Church. And the Church gave us the Bible.
 
All Christians believe in the 27 books of the New Testament. We all believe these books are the inspired Word of God based on the authority of the Church to recognize this truth and teach it. The same Church has the authority to declare the 46 books of the Old Testament as well.
 June 1, 2025: Acts 7:55-60 Psalm 97:1-2, 6-7, 9Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20 
John 17:20-26

06/01/25 Pillar and Foundation: Canon of Scripture

Homily from the First Sunday of Lent.
 
The decision that broke the world.
 
This world is not perfect. And we are not perfect. But imperfect does not mean unloved.
 Mass Readings from March 1, 2020: Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7 Psalms 51:3-6, 12-13, 17Romans 5:12-19 
Matthew 4:1-11
 
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03/01/20 Un-Done: We've Come Undone

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