"Always Courageous" | 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Mike's Homily)
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Courage is the willingness to do God's will on your own accord.
We find ourselves in a place where we face uncertainty and difficulty. And yet, we are called to nonetheless move forward with courage. We walk by faith and not by sight. We choose to trust in God's Word more than our fears.
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Thank you father Mike… I needed this message today ❤
I needed to hear this
Literally every time I’ve seen that episode I’ve thought about God ! Great homily ❤
Happy Father's Day, Father Mike, have a blessed week ahead ❤
Marshall Eriksen !! Happy Father’s Day to the great dads out there !
Happy Father's Day to all the Dads and all the single Moms who play the role of both parents. We've all got this because we've got God. 🙏🏻❤️
Bless you for this utube lv lv
Dear Fr. Mike and crew,
I don't even know where to start. Our six year old son was diagnosed with Leukemia in August of last year. Because he has been immunocompromised due to chemotherapy, we have not been to Mass since then. Fr. Mike, you have been our priest every Sunday. You have preached to our hearts during some of the darkest days we have known as a family. You have spoken to our suffering and have been a guiding light through your homilies. At the end of Mass, when you often say to your online congregation, you are not alone, we are praying with you and for you, it is us you are speaking to. We always pray for our dear circle of priest friends and it was with great joy I added you to our nightly prayers. God bless you and all those who make it possible to have online Mass on Sundays!
In Christ whom all things are possible,
Iona Sturgill
I am thinking of you all. Much love to you. ❤xx
Dobre kazanie. Pozdrowienia z Polski. Mam nadzieję, że u Księdza wszystko OK.
Dear Fr Mike , Thank you for all your videos . My life has been turned upside down in the last 18 months but Jesus has walked with me throughout. ❤
Thank you for this excellent homily! "Just keep on going when we can't see ahead". Easier said than done, but we do it anyway. Thank you!
Thanks!
Thank you Father Mike, wonderful homily. God bless you, the Pew crew, and all parishioners. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
As a single mother I can really identify with moving forward into the dark without being able to see where we are going, but feeling safe with God the Father.
God will guide us
God bless you.
Happy fathers day Padre...
God bless you father. You’re in my prayers. Happy Father’s Day!!😊🙏🎉
Thank you, Father! Your message inspired me! God bless you!
God bless your grandma Father Mike and all who courageously follow their faith over fear!!!!
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear." - Mia's Dad in Princess Diaries 😊
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This was amazing… thank you Father Mike. Always courageous 🙏🏼🥰🕊
Fr. Mike, thank you for allowing God to use you to build up His people. I thank Him for your ministry.
Wow father. You had me in tears. Jesus i surrender myself to You. Take care of everything
Thank you Fr Mike. This is exactly what I needed today to stop worrying and being always courageous.
What an amazing Homily, Father Mike. Me being a single man, an immigrant who just settled down in Canada, and a new Catholic at 30 years of age, there are many uncertainties in my life; look around, I also see the painful fallenness of our world, but I often find prayer and Bible reading can always deeply console me when I am not at Mass or in church. I also turn to our Blessed Mother, and I would talk to her, and pray the rosary. I feel very helpless at times but the Church's rich tradition, and our Lord can always lift me up and make me content, and peaceful. Besides, the homily of a great priest like you also inspires me! God bless.
I heard this message yesterday, and this morning I
just came across these words as I was reading today's Psalm 97.
If you obey and do right, a LIGHT will SHOW YOU THE WAY and fill U w/ happiness (Ps 97:11)
- it just took a new meaning after Father Mike explained 😊
thank you father mike, this helped me a lot! thank you for being an excellent instrument of God
Great... Happy Father's day to all fathers...COURAGE!
Thanks Fr Mikey. Your grandma is so proud of you. Thanks for letting Gods divine spark of truth out to light the world. God put a unique piece of himself in each unique soul so he could be seen. I love seeing God in you.
Thank you Father Mike ❤ beautiful homily as always!
I needed to hear this today. Thank you Father Mike for being God’s vessel.
God bless you always, father. Happy Father's Day! Thank you for always giving us beautiful homily's
Happy Father's Day to my husband Peter, have a blessed Sunday morning also to all our good priests Amen
Praise and thanks to your Grandma Fr Mike, she set such a good example for everyone.
God bless Grandma Helen. Our Lord knows every aborted baby before He forms the baby in it's mother's womb. Jeremiah 1:5.
God Bless you and protect you and Our Blessed Mother pray for you, Father Mike. Thank God for your Priesthood. Every priest is so valuable! Thank God for you . Last but not least may St. Joseph protect you! I Pray for you that may God keep using you greatly and use whatever you offer up to Him, your crosses for your dearest intentions! Holy Spirit make Father Mike a Holy Priest and keep him always united to the Heart of Jesus. I say Holy because we are all called to be Holy and only You God Holy Spirit can fo that! Lwt's pray for each other beotjers and sisyers in Christ!
Happy fathers day 🎉 to all dads and our priest.lets say the Lord's prayer.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Beautiful Homily Father Mike & so needed!!
Thank you Fr. Mike for another beautiful Mass and Homily. Please pray for my son Ronnie who is recuperating from a bleeding ulcer and a blood clot in his leg. Please pray for me as I have significant pain from arthritis but most severe in my low back. I need an answer as to whether surgery will give me pain relief. The Dr. Is not sure it give me pain relief enough to help me become more active again. Thank you Fr. as I trust in your prayer and Faith in Jesus Christ. God be with you.❤🫠🙏🏻🙌
Oh my goodness, you spoke beautifully about the role of Dad's in our lives.
Thankyouxxx
I am thoughtful of my own dear Dad, whom I pray is in Heaven now with my lovely Mum; and of my husband, whom I appreciate more and more as a father to our dear son.
You are so right when you say that the role of fathers can often be to keep moving us forward; sometimes in what can seem like a blind faith xx
Much love from Cornwall, UK. all the way to Minnesota.
P.S. I am really enjoying the Bible in a year podcast with your lovely insights. And constantly recommending it to others! Thankyouxxx Fr Mike from my family to yours. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
Great homily Father Mike,I’m trying not to be too harsh on myself, to walk by faith is my goal to make sure I get through this difficult period. Peace be with you Father Mike….
Oh wow. Talk about getting what you need when you need it. This is the biggest chunk of encouragement I've received in a long time while being in the midst of a very challenging matter. And all I could think was, I'm losing this battle. I must a control freak to keep going. It's not going to work out. God will say no., doesn't approve. Why is the legal process going so slowly
without changing for the better?
Then this awful and homely tells am going in the right direction simply by keeping going, I do actually have courage when I feel like I have none.
And it's fine example of walking by phase, not by sight that Father Mike pointed out. Thank you God for stepping in to my mess.
Another amazing message from Fr Mike!
Thank you!
Ctr Mike happy Father's day to you're dad
thank you Father Mike, I'm a father of a little 4 year old and I find difficult, sometimes sad and lonesome but after two years of finding God and his church and after 1 year of giving it my best attempt at right worship to the Lord in everything I do in every part of my life I have gotten better at trusting in Him when confusion, sadness and contradictions blur your vision and you don't know what will happen, I trust in Him more but I wish I trusted even more, his providence has never failed me. I don't know you but you have done so much for the Lord and you have helped his children, even the lost ones like myself. God bless you and Happy Father's Day to all the dads in the world, specially to those that are not very good or proud fathers, because you guys are still fathers nonetheless and you can start being better men every day a little bit better
I am blessed by the Lord with a good wife. God gives me love to love her and gives her love to love me 💕.
God bless Fr. Mike and ty for Sunday service and the ascension app.
This powerful message important and great lesson I feel like we Christian very strong on god no matter upon on life we have pray hard together move forward by lord guide thanks for prayers always god good and love
Thank you,Fr.Mike. I could listen to you all day.
Je suis à bout 🙏 Seigneur donne moi la force, donne moi le courage. Je ne suis rien sans Toi
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Maybe Father Mike you are the fruit of that courage from your Grandmother, God gave her the gift which is you to be our gift, please continue being courageous and bring hope to all of us.
There is always Jesus!
God is good and has shown me his love, at this moment im in the middle of my cancer treatment, i will start chemo July 2nd and im so afraid, but here i am listening to this homily and it feels like it was written for me and what is in my heart. Thank you Father Mike for being a vessel and guiding us on this journey. Please pray that I am healed of this cancer and am allowed to see my sons grow up to be adult men. 🙏
O miraculous Child Jesus!
I come before Your sacred Image, moved By Love and by Hope and I beseech You to look mercifully into our troubled heart.
Let Your own tender Love,
always inclined to compassion,
mitigate our troubles and alleviate our sufferings.
Take from us if it be Your Will, all unbearable afflictions and let us never surrender to despair.
Grant us Dear Child Jesus,
the special grace we ask from You today in all humility
and with a loving trust
and for the sake of Your Sacred Infancy, always hear our prayers.
Be generous with Your aid and consolation,
that we may praise You,
and the Father,
and the Holy Spirit.
Amen
❤
I love going to mass. I love Fr Schmitz.. I watch Fr Chris Alar of the Divine Mercy talks. I do bible and catechism in a year. I love my Catholic faith.
Me too. Fr Chris Alar and fr Mike are my favorite priests. I was lucky enough to meet fr Chris Alar last year. I woyld love to meet fr Mike. Hes awesome. I love listening to fr Mike on hallow
Happy Father’s Day. I am praying for you❤
I love a priest who can use How I Met Your Mother in a homily
Thank you Fr Mike. ❤ I heard this a week late but right when I needed it. God is so good
Thank you, Father Mike I really needed to hear this.
Happy Father's day Father Mike! May God bless you abundantly today and always.
Lord bless all fathers, spiritual fathers, father to be, help them to walk by faith and not by sight, guide and protect them
GOD KEEPS HIS CHILDREN MOVING FORWARD CUZ HE ALONE KNOWS THE WAY..
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there! ❤😊
I had to listen to this homily again. It's that good. And that meaningful. I hope 🙏 you write these before you speak them, Fr. Mike Schmitz.
Jesus help all of us to walk by faith and not by sight 🙏
As you say Father Mike, I am a double dipper..
This homily was amazing.
My dad used to say to me, don’t have to fear the dark, nothing there, but dark itself.
I wonder if he was ever afraid? You gave me thinking. 🤔
Have a great day Father.
7:20 relatable
Thank you Fr. Mike for your sermon. I am listening to you every now and than from Poland and I really appreciate Your preaching although I have a lot of powerful priests in my country. In PL we celebrate the Father's Day every year on the 23-rd of June which is not always on Sunday. For the Mother's Day we have a fixed day as well - on the 26-th of May. May God bless you and give you strenght and perseverance for Your Ministry now and in the future. The world is changing and sometimes one can be afraid if it is the right direction it is going in but I firmly belive God is in control of everything. Thank you again.
To all of our holy, chosen and courageous priests out there who sacrifice daily to lead their flocks though difficult it is. Happy Father's Day! Praying for you all. God Bless!
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Being off an antidepressant after 10 years, all I feel is fear, and it is torture.
Happy Fathers Day to a “Good Good Father”
Excellent homily Father Mike. Thank you for your honesty and inspiration. Help me, Lord Jesus, to walk by faith and not by sight. I ask you to give me courage when things in life are not the greatest. Help me, through faith, to continue forward without knowing what lies ahead.
Amen 🙏
Happy Fathers Day to my sweet baby Jesus 😇✝️God bless everyone and to every Father I hope you’re having the most beautiful blessed day. Tysm for all of your sermons Father Mike. You’ve really helped me and my husband in our journey with The Lord. We absolutely adore you. God bless with so much love and thanks from Mrs. and Mr. Jones ✝️😇🙏
The show is How I Met Your Mother btw and the character is Marshall.
I remember that episode❤
Thank you Fr Mike I needed to hear this God Bless you
Thank you, Father, for giving us courage as Christians. Have a blessed Father's Day. IN NOMINE PATRIS ET FILII ET SPIRITUS SANCTI. +AMEN
Happy Father's Day to my heavenly Father I love you❤
Happy Father’s Day
Please everyone, listen and Share! Thank you Fr Mike. This is one of hour greatest and this message needs to be heard . Happy Fathers Day🫀
I feel the need to thank you Father. I feel such gratirude for the guidance I have recieved from you. I have not only found my way back to God, in large part because of you, but also the words of Father Pine, Father Mary and others. Not only back to God but back to the Church I thought I had no place in because of the choices I have made. I garnered the courage to see a priest locally (funny how I have returned to my childhood Parish). I am now preparing for my first confession in 50 years with the help of your pocket guide. I dont have the words to adaquetly express my gratitude.
Thanks Father Mike, your grandma is a SAINT!!
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Fr Mike, it' incureging so much to me, thank you,,
Thank you father Mike, you are a saint. ❤ Love you….
Thank you Father Mike.
Excellent, just simply Excellent.
Thank goodness Father Mike does NOT limit his great homilies to 10 minutes. Most homilies I hear are short, boring & unhelpful. Father Mike shows us how it is done. 😇🙏🏽⛪️✝️
Amazing praise God 🙏
TURN TO JESUS NOW! AND REPENT TO BE SAVED
God taught me fear is the absence of FAITH!
Happy Father’s Day, Fr. Mike.
Love it.❤
"I trust God's words over my fears and insecurities"
God bless you Father
😅Thank you Father Mike
Bravery is not the absence of fear but the conquering of fear.
He’s talking about “How I met your mother” Marshall. It hit me hard even though I grew up without dad. 😆
Amen
Jesus gives me the courage and the strength I need to overcome any obstacles. As a single mom I’ve been struggling to support my children both are special needs. As I struggle to buy groceries and as I struggle to pay my bills Jesus has never left my side. There is always a miracle around the corner. I have faith that Jesus will continue to get me through this. Faith over fear.💕💕
so relate to you. God Bless you so so much. May Mother Mary pray for you. Stay close to Mary she brings us closer to God.
In God l trust! Thank you Father ❤
beautiful
Beautiful homily!
Thank you Father.
Father Mike! I listen to multiple talks of your every day. As an old army guy, I simply suggest that the dad does not reveal he does not know what he is doing to those he is leading. The dad should bring these issues to his spiritual director, his priest or a trusted confident or mentor. It is essential for the team and/or family ride into the night just like on the show sleeping soundly or marveling at the leader. It is reasonable to ask a Dad to man up.
Just keep swimming