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
4/27/25 Move On: Five Words
Homily from the Second Sunday of Easter, Sunday of Divine Mercy
Five words that can change your life.
Life is filled with change and uncertainty. But there is one thing that is stable and unchanging…
4/20/25 What Never Dies
Homily from the The Resurrection of the Lord, The Mass of Easter Day
Get up and do what you can.
We know that darkness is real. And death is real. But darkness and death are not the end. There are …
4/18/25 Pause
Homily from Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion
This is not the end of the Story, but it had to happen for the Story to go on.
The Passion of Christ is not the end of the Story, but we must pause and r…
4/17/25 The God Who Makes Himself Vulnerable
Homily from Holy Thursday, Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper
He loved them to the end.
One of the characteristics that marks modern man is that we find ourselves angry at God. In fact, we are so ang…
04/13/25 The Place of the Way: Here
Homily from Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion.
Thank God ahead of time.
We often put off joy and praise and peace. We are tempted to be preoccupied with wanting to be "there" or wanting to be "done"…
04/06/25 The Place of the Way: Dead Ends
Homily from the Fifth Sunday in Lent.
We run out of all hope...and then Jesus.
The Dead End is a necessary place of the way. The location where we run out of our own skill and our own strength and f…
03/30/25 The Place of the Way: Home
Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent.
To look like Jesus, we must learn how to live in the Presence of the Father.
When it comes to our relationship with the Father, too often it is marked by hiding…
03/23/25 The Place of the Way: The Valley
Homily from the Third Sunday of Lent.
We all want peak moments, but growth happens in the Valley.
Why do we walk through valleys? What good is life in the valley? Is it only a negative? Is it always …
03/16/25 The Place of the Way: The Crossroads
Homily from the Second Sunday of Lent.
A big life is a series of small crossroads.
Life happens at the crossroads. Life is also a series of small crossroads that might seem insignificant, but add up …
03/09/25 The Place of the Way: The Desert
Homily from the First Sunday of Lent.
The only way out is through.
As we enter into the desert, the desert takes away the things we tend to trust in...the things we use as comforts and crutches...and…
03/02/25 The Place of the Way: What Reveals and What Trains
Homily from the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Silence reveals our hearts and silence trains our hearts.
As we enter into the place of training, we realize that there are certain things that reveal …
02/23/25 A New Commandment
Homily from the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Love those who deserve it. And those who don’t.
Jesus gives us a commandment that existed from the beginning: we are to love those who deserve it. Thi…
02/16/25 How Do I Know if I Have Faith?
Homily from the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
We live in this life, but we live for the next life.
Jesus turns our fears and our hopes upside down...because through the Resurrection, Jesus has turne…
02/9/25 On Purpose: The Next Step
Homily from the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
There are two requirements: Be available and be willing to try.
There are times when the future is so uncertain and so unknown that we hesitate to move.…
02/02/25 On Purpose: Your Destiny
Homily from the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord.
Do what you know, where you are.
What is the Greatest Thing you will ever do? What if the Greatest Thing is not something you accomplish, but wh…
01/26/25 On Purpose: Off Purpose
Homily from the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time.
You've been given a great work, and must not come down.
Since you have been made on purpose, there are two ways to live: on purpose and off purpose. Bu…
01/19/25 On Purpose: Be Great
Homily from the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Why be great?
A powerful goal in life is to be great. To be able to say, "I am good at this" regardless of comparison, but with an eye towards real exc…
01/12/25 Claimed
Homily from the Baptism of the Lord.
You've been claimed at the lowest point.
The Baptism of the Lord is a mystery. The mystery of how Christ comes into contact with the water...and it does not chan…
01/05/25 Optimism
Homily from the Epiphany of the Lord.
There is something powerful about optimism.
Optimistic people are more likely to be risk takers and more likely to have a positive view of life. But optimistic p…
01/01/25 The Power of "Yes"
Homily from the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God.
When we know God's will, we must respond with "yes".
There are truly horrible and troubling things that can happen in each one…