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
12/02/18 Be Ready, Get Ready
Homily from the First Sunday of Advent.
You will never be ready unless you get ready.
Advent is a season of preparation. We get ready to celebrate the first coming of Christ into this world. We also …
11/25/18 Come to the Altar: Kingdom Priesthood
Homily from the Solemnity of Christ the King.
Don't waste your priesthood.
Jesus is the one eternal High Priest. He has called certain men to participate in His priesthood in a unique way. But He has…
11/18/18 Come to the Altar: Learning to Worship
Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Not merely witnessing the miracle, but offering the sacrifice.
We have to learn the worship of God in a similar way that we need to learn the Wor…
11/11/18 Come to the Altar: Hollow Worship
Homily from the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Offering first-fruits reveals and increases the depth of trust.
The temptation to experience worship as hollow or empty is universal. God’s sol…
11/04/18 Come to the Altar: Where's Your Altar?
Homily from the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Not to watch, but to worship.
The heart of religion is the worship of God. And the heart of worship is always sacrifice; a gift that is poured o…
10/28/18 Rivals: Rival Voices
Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
We do not conquer our rivals, we are called out from beneath their power.
The voices around us shape us. Some voices shape us more powerfully and mo…
10/21/18 Rivals: The Rival of Control
Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
What do I have to do to get what I want?
So much of our lives can be marked by the desire to control…or the fear of losing control. The rival of …
10/14/18 Rivals: The Reason is the Rival
Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
God has an absolute claim on your heart. What is the reason you won't give it to Him?
There is a clear difference between a reason and an excuse…
10/07/18 Rivals: All or Nothing
Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.
There are some relationships that do not tolerate rivals.
There are only two kinds of relationships that get to a point where it is “all…or not…