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
10/25/20 Roadmap: Reclaimed and Repurposed
Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Holiness isn’t always changing your what as much as changing your why.
Our lives have been reclaimed by Christ and we have become a new creation. Be…
10/18/20 Roadmap: Be A Saint
Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
The roadmap begins with “Who.”
There is one true goal in life: to be a saint. Many of us believe this, but is there a path? Without a plan, we wi…
10/11/20 No Difference
Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
There are many goods. There is only one best.
Modern indifference is the inability to take joy in in one's situation regardless of the circumsta…
10/04/20 It's Not Your Vineyard
Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.
God has made you for freedom from anxiety over the unforeseeable future, the unchangeable past, and your present responsibilities.
Many people…
09/27/20 How Do I Look? Change Your Mind
Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
If you can choose your thoughts you can change your thoughts.
In the garden of the mind, our thoughts are constantly growing. Some we want, other…
09/20/20 How Do I Look? Highlighter
Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
It doesn’t matter how long you live. What matters is how you live.
Our lives will magnify (or highlight) something. Will they be so full of nice …
09/13/20 How Do I Look? The Cost of Forgiveness
Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
There is no forgiveness without justice.
Forgiveness is neither excusing nor enabling evil. There is always a debt that needs to be paid…and som…
09/06/20 How Do I Look? Fighting For
Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time.
How do Christians fight?
We all have experienced the temptation to see someone who has failed or someone who has hurt us as a non-person. But tak…
08/30/20 How Do I Look? "Lucky"
Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Am I being conformed or transformed?
Christians must not only live differently in the world, we must look differently at the world.
- Mass Reading…
08/23/20 Influencer
Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.
The Church has influence even when it isn’t considered important.
We can often confuse infl…
08/16/20 Great Faith
Homily from the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Faith can only become great when it is tested.
What kind of faith do you want? Faith that makes a difference because it is lived out is the only kin…
08/09/20 Why Did You Stop?
Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
It is one thing to start walking. It is another thing to keep walking.
Distraction is anything that takes our focus away from where it needs to be.
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08/02/20 All We Have
Homily from the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Do I have an attitude of scarcity or an attitude of abundance?
All of us have gifts in our lives and all of us have real struggles in our lives. Wh…
07/05/20 Lead Yourself First
Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Freedom requires virtue.
The Founding Fathers gave the world a republic that necessitated a people who were virtuous, moral, and religious..
- Mass R…
06/28/20 Something to Lose
Homily from the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
It is a gift to have something to lose.
Every good thing in our lives comes from Jesus. Since He is the source of everything, He must be more impor…
06/21/20 Fear No One
Homily from the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
You matter to God and you have a job to do.
Jesus tells us to "fear no one." Not because there is no danger, but because He is calling us to not be sa…
06/14/20 No Longer Optional
Homily from the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ.
The Eucharist will never be optional...until the day it is no longer an option.
The moment worship becomes about “what I get” it ceases to b…
06/07/20 In His Image and Likeness
Homily from the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.
You do not have to know the details of a person’s life to know they are worth loving.
Human worth is rooted in our deepest identity. And our deepes…
05/31/20 Exiles: The First Gift
Homily from Pentecost Sunday.
For the love of God has been poured into our hearts.
Jesus sent the Holy Spirit so that we could receive the first gift of the Holy Spirit: to know what it is to be love…
05/24/20 Exiles: Restoration
Homily from the Ascension of the Lord.
Live the reason.
Return from exile is not about a change in location, it is about a change in vocation. It is less about geography and more about mission. The g…