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
08/18/24 Praise First...and Last
Homily from the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Let praise go up first.
There is something that every Christian can do at every moment and in every situation...that most of us forget to do. Or we …
08/15/24 Assumed Into Heaven
Homily from the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Body and soul in Heaven.
The fact of the Assumption is the greatest reminder that all those who have died in Christ are meant to rise with Christ…
08/11/24 Winning?
Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
What does a"win" look like?
There are times when we accomplish our goals...and then we still feel that there ought to be something more. There are…
08/04/24 The Most Important Sight
Homily from the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
There are four kinds of vision...one is the most helpful.
We all want to see the world accurately. But most often, we fall into the blindness of be…
07/28/24 Give and Gather
Homily from the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Give the first fruits and gather the fragments.
We are given two commands in this weekend's readings: to give the first fruits and gather the frag…
07/21/24 Rest a While
Homily from the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
A person cannot be excellent without rest.
Human beings are made in God's image. We are also made for love, for labor, and for leisure. Since the Fa…
07/14/24 Borrowed Time
Homily from the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Does God have permission to say "I want it back?"
We are all living on borrowed time. And borrowed gifts...and borrowed strengths... Everything we …
07/07/24 A Thorn in the Side
Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
God can be glorified through our wounds, not merely in spite of them.
We all experience brokenness. We all experience God's love through a broken l…
06/30/24 Raincoats and Umbrellas
Homily from the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
The Sacraments are God's presence and power...do we let them change us?
We continually come into contact with the living God in the Sacraments. But…
06/23/24 True Surrender
Homily from the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Rebellion, Resentment, or Rejoicing.
We are called to surrender to God's will. But how do we surrender? Is it a matter of feeling or is it a matter of…
06/16/24 Always Courageous
Homily from the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Courage is the willingness to do God's will on your own accord.
We find ourselves in a place where we face uncertainty and difficulty. And yet, we ar…
06/09/24 Becoming Like Him
Homily from the Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
God can even use a broken world to accomplish His will.
What is the point of life? Is it to be happy? To get what you want? Or is the point of life to b…
06/02/24 Gift and Mystery: His Very Self
Homily from the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ.
Do I not know? Or do I not care?
The Eucharist is truly the Body, and Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ. Beyond all of God…
5/26/24 Gift and Mystery: The Spirit of Adoption
Homily from the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.
God wants to spend time with you.
The Mystery of the Holy Trinity is the Mystery of God's identity. The tri-Personal God is more than an abstract c…
5/19/24 Gift and Mystery: Use the Gift
Homily from Pentecost Sunday.
The best way to thank the Giver is to use the gift.
At Pentecost, the Lord poured out His Holy Spirit upon the disciples and blessed them with His gifts. Immediately, th…
05/12/24 Gift and Mystery: Build Up the Body
Homily from the Solemnity of the Ascension.
Who am I building up?
God has given us His promise of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit sanctifies us and makes us holy, but the gifts of the Holy Spirit ar…
05/05/24 Nunc Coepi: Begin Again
Homily from the Sixth Sunday of Easter.
The strength that got you here is not the strength needed to get you there.
As we continue to grow and age and mature, we also continue to experience the reali…
04/28/24 Nunc Coepi: Time to Start
Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Easter.
You got to wake up today.
We don't know if we will have enough time to finish, but we do know that we have time to start. We have a tendency to delay, but the…
04/21/24 Nunc Coepi: Season of Discouragement
Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter.
Stand in the truth and do the next right thing.
Life can easily overwhelm us, leaving us in a place where we feel beaten and in a season of discouragement. Bu…
04/14/24 Nunc Coepi: Breaking Agreements
Homily from the Third Sunday of Easter.
The first step is to stop.
Once we realize that we have to repent...that we are called to "change our minds"...the first step is to stop. To examine what it is…