Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
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.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 369
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
11/21/21 All Over the Place
Homily from the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.
When torn asunder, we are held together by worship of the King of Kings.
The end of the year offers us the chance to recogniz…
11/14/21 Always Forward. Never Back.
Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time.
The struggle doesn't change the destination. The struggle is the way.
When we are in the middle of a journey...or the middle of life...we will en…
11/07/21 Learning to Lose: Practice Dying
Homily from the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Death is unavoidable.
We will all lose everything. We will all lose everything...even to the point of our very lives. Rather than avoid death, w…
11/01/21 Your Feast Day
Homily from the Solemnity of All Saints.
The Solemnity of All Saints is the day the Church has given us to celebrate and honor what God has done in the lives of th…
10/31/21 Learning to Lose: All is Lost
Homily from the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.
When all is lost, love God with all that's left.
We are called to love God with everything. It is easier to love when we are winning, but are we …
10/24/21 Learning to Lose: Get Up
Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Life is about losing. It is not about quitting.
It is one thing to lose. It is another thing when those losses begin to stack up and we get to the p…
10/17/21 Learning to Lose: Winner or Witness?
Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Life isn't about power, it is about being poured out.
The world sees life as being about winning. And to win is to gain power and influence. If a…
10/10/21 Holding On: Holding On to You
Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
What you've been holding on to ends up holding on to you.
Anything can keep us from Heaven. Anything that we prefer over and over (and anything …
10/03/21 Holding On: The Power of a Promise
Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.
"Because I said I would."
We are not yet who we are called to be. Sometimes, in order to become the person we are called to be, we need to stop…
09/26/21 Holding On: Patient and Ruthless
Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
What if the biggest obstacle to being the person you were created to be is the person you are currently choosing to be?
There are things that we …
09/19/21 Desperate
Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Edit, Convince, and Worry. Or Honesty, Trust, and Thanking God ahead of time.
The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation." We do not merely …
09/12/21 Not Mine
Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Faith must be lived, not merely believed.
It is wise to take responsibility for one’s own time, resources, and family. And yet, we must be ready…
09/05/21 Seen. Known. Loved.
Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Transition always involves destruction.
Jesus heals the man who was deaf and mute. In doing this, He was destroying something in the man’s life…h…
08/29/21 Living in Later?
Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Am I doing “everything but”?
Often we avoid doing what is essential by filling our lives with many things that are optional.
- Mass Readings from…
08/22/21 Consumer Catholic: The Church of Me
Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Everything I like and nothing that I don't.
The temptation to create a God in our own image and have a church in our own image is strong. But God…
08/15/21 Consumer Catholic: The Body
Homily from the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
You are your body.
The Assumption of Mary reveals many things. One of the things it reveals is that our destiny is to be reunit…
08/08/21 Consumer Catholic: Farther to Go
Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
The best of your life is ahead of you...you will need food for the journey.
The worst days of our life often come after the best days of our life. …
08/01/21 Consumer Catholic: Choose God.
Homily from the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Choose God over the works of God.
The signs point to Jesus and Jesus is the point of the signs. When we are challenged to merely consume… When we a…
07/25/21 Consumer Catholic: Everything Given. Nothing Wasted.
Homily from the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Nothing given to God is wasted.
The Apostles asked the question, "What good are these for so many?" Yet, Jesus invited them to give what they had …
07/18/21 The Poison of Indifference
Homily from the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Indifference does not mean you don’t care; it just means you don’t care enough to move.
There are many opportunities to waste one’s life. One of tho…