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
05/17/20 Exiles: Why Go Back?
Homily from the Sixth Sunday of Easter.
Not a habit or a have-to, but the heart is the reason.
At some point, the exile will end. You will be able to go back. But why? What is the reason why you will…
05/10/20 Insecure: Uncertain Plans
Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Easter.
Advance boldly into the shadows of uncertainty.
If we are wise, we will think about the future and plan for it. And if we are even wiser, we will be able to le…
05/03/20 Insecure: Untroubled by the Unknown
Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter.
Knowing does not equal security.
In a world of insecurity, it is less important to know where one is being lead, and more important to know who is doing the l…
04/26/20 Insecure: Not Home
Homily from the Third Sunday of Easter.
Back to normal might not be what we think.
Our lives can be spent wishing for certain outcomes. But a security built on specific outcomes is a conditional and …
04/19/20 Insecure: The Source of Security
Homily from Divine Mercy Sunday.
In a time of incredible insecurity, we trust in incomprehensible mercy.
We live in an insecure world, but God’s mercy is stable.
- Mass Readings from April 19, 2020:
- Ac…
04/11/20 Witnesses
Homily from Holy Saturday, the Easter Vigil.
We profess the faith today so we can persevere in the faith tomorrow.
Christianity is an historical religion that is not based on feelings, philosophies, …
04/10/20 Prepared But Not Ready
Homily from Good Friday of the Lord's Passion.
Why are we surprised when we discover that “weakness” is actually weak?
Jesus prepared His disciples for His Passion. But they were not ready, because t…
04/09/20 Re-Claimed and Re-Named
Homily from Holy Thursday, the Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper.
God speaks your true name: "Mine."
Our name is our identity. Christ has covered our given name with His blood. And now we have a new …
04/05/20 Un-Done: Unfinished
Homily from Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion.
Jesus has not removed suffering from our lives, He has redeemed the suffering in our lives.
Jesus accomplished the Father’s will in His passion, death, …
03/29/20 Un-Done: Broken, Not Lost
Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Lent.
Jesus is the God of the Broken Heart.
Suffering, sickness, and death are devastating. But nothing is worse than losing one’s heart. A broken heart is still home …
03/22/20 Un-Done: God Shows Up
Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent.
Real suffering in this world reveals the deeper part of us that has come undone.
God made this world good, but He did not make it unbreakable. This world has co…
03/15/20 Un-Done: Not Fine
Homily from the Third Sunday of Lent.
You are not fine. You don't have to be.
We live in a world that has come undone with hearts and relationships that have come undone. Jesus comes to that wound to…
03/01/20 Un-Done: We've Come Undone
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:
- Gene…
02/26/20 He Sees. He Cares.
Homily from Ash Wednesday.
Your Father sees you. Your Father hears you.
We all desire to be heard and seen...to know we matter. Jesus reveals that even your actions in secret are known by the Father …
02/23/20 Defiant Love
Homily from the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.
If we are going to love like Jesus, we must love differently…we must love defiantly.
The Universe is indifferent to us. People can be vicious to us. T…
02/16/20 More Than A Criminal Heart
Homily from the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
God wants you to have a heart like His.
The Sermon on the Mount reveals the truth about our hearts: we need the Law. But God wants us to be free from th…
02/09/20 Good...For Nothing?
Homily from the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Refuse to live as salt and light, and the Father remains unknown, unloved, and unglorified.
God trusts us with being His representatives in this world. …
02/02/20 Underestimated: Unimpressive
Homily from the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord.
Unimpressive does not mean unimportant.
Most of life is made up of unimpressive moments and unimpressive seasons. If we are constantly waiting f…
01/26/20 Underestimated: Silence is Not Absence
Homily from the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Do not underestimate what God is doing when it seems like God is doing nothing.
There are seasons of silence, and hiddenness, and brokenness in all of o…
01/19/20 Underestimated: Single Unifying Principle
Homily from the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time.
The single unifying principle unites all of the various threads of our life into one whole image.
It is “too little” to remain who you are instead of b…