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
06/30/19 We'll See
Homily from the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Transfer your primary allegiance.
When following Jesus, the first things He invites us to give up are safety and control.
- Mass Readings from June 3…
06/09/19 The Peace of Christ
Homily from Pentecost Sunday.
I know I have what I need.
The promised Holy Spirit gives many gifts, but few are more powerful and profound than the Spirit’s gift of peace.
- Mass Readings from June 9, …
05/12/19 #Fail: Failure is Feedback
Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter.
Failure either gives us clarity and conviction or course correction.
Failure is not final and failure is not fatal. As long as we don’t stop, and as long as w…
05/05/19 #Fail: The Only Way to Fail
Homily from the Third Sunday of Easter.
The only way for failure to be final is if you stop.
Even sin is not final if you don’t stop. God has a call for you that is not erased by failure.
- Mass Readin…
04/28/19 #Fail: Free to Fail
Homily from Divine Mercy Sunday.
Failure is the one necessary prerequisite for God’s greatest gift.
Many people battle with perfectionism. God’s mercy in the midst of failure is His remedy for the fe…
04/14/19 Behind Enemy Lines: Stand
Homily from Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion.
To stand for Jesus is to stand against the world.
If I live in such a way that I merely follow the crowd, I will find myself praising Jesus on Sunday an…
04/07/19 Behind Enemy Lines: The Father of Lies
Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Lent.
There is no need to fear, but there is a need to fight.
Behind enemy lines, we find ourselves in a battle with the Enemy of God. Satan is real and Satan must be …
03/31/19 Behind Enemy Lines: Let Go...and Come Inside
Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent.
We have different experiences, but the same enemy.
While all of us struggle with different sins and temptations, we all ultimately have the same enemy: pride. P…
03/24/19 Behind Enemy Lines: Trust God...and Fight
Homily from the Third Sunday of Lent.
Trained in trust...strengthened through struggle.
God has freely given so much to us…and we are grateful. But why do we still experience the consequences of slav…
03/17/19 Behind Enemy Lines: My Own Worst Enemy
Homily from the Second Sunday of Lent.
You have to know yourself to say no to yourself.
We are in a battle, but our primary enemy is closer than we might like to imagine. In order to gain true freedo…
03/06/19 Behind Enemy Lines: Isolated and Disoriented
Homily from Ash Wednesday.
You are in a fight; what comes next?
For many of us, our default assumption about life is: it’s fine. Even when things are obviously broken, we can pretend that they will …
03/03/19 Talking and Trials
Homily from the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
What reveals the heart.
We often are a mystery...even to ourselves. But Christians must come to a place of self-knowledge so we can present our true se…
02/24/19 Love Yourself
Homily from the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.
You are loved most when you deserve it the least.
Jesus calls us to love our enemies. But how can we do that when we don’t even love the people we li…
02/17/19 The Fighting Virtue
Homily from the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Willing to engage and embrace the realities of life.
Hope is not a “soft” virtue. It is a fighting virtue. Hope is what enables us to live in the presen…
02/10/19 Disqualified: Unfit
Homily from the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
God is able to make you holy even if He never makes you whole.
There are some things in our lives (our decisions, our wounds, our weaknesses) that we wi…
02/03/19 Disqualified: Remarkably Average
Homily from the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Being unqualified does not disqualify when God calls.
There are many people who would look remarkably average on paper. Our stats would reveal that we …
01/27/19 Disqualified: Prevented or Prepared?
Homily from the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time.
What great work may God be preparing you for right now?
In Christ, your past might not be the thing that prevent you from being a part of God’s great wo…
01/20/19 Insufficient and Insignificant
Homily from the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time.
God uses what we have and gives us what we need.
It is often very tempting to forget the heart of God. To forget that He notices us, delights in us, an…
12/25/18 But Why?
Homily from the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas).
The Why is a Who.
Jesus is not merely the “reason for the season”… He is the reason for everything.
- Mass Readings from December 25, 2018:
- Isaiah 62:1…
12/09/18 The End?
Homily from the Second Sunday of Advent.
This might be the end of the dream, but it is not the end of the story.
God has begun a good work in you. In fact, he has begun many “good works.“ Many of the…