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
12/17/23 Main Character: Don't Wait
Homily from the Third Sunday of Advent.
We won't be able to rejoice, pray, or give thanks always unless we rejoice, pray, and give thanks now.
Main Character syndrome can lead us to believe that we a…
12/10/23 Main Character: Perfect
Homily from the Second Sunday of Advent.
Perfectionism can move us from caring to quitting.
Spiritual perfectionism can lead people who care about the Faith and who love God to a place of harshness a…
12/8/23 The New Eve
Homily from the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Mary was preserved from sin by the merits of her Son's life, death, and resurrection.
The Solemnity of the Immaculat…
12/3/23 Main Character: An Average Star
Homily from the First Sunday of Advent.
You are God. I am not.
When we encounter the true and living God, there is only one response...it involves six little words, but makes a world of difference.
- M…
11/26/23 Based On a True Story: Unwritten
Homily from the Solemnity of Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.
Your part of the story (Act IV) remains unwritten.
Jesus has bridged the unbridgable gap between God and humanity. We can believ…
11/19/23 Based On a True Story: Otherwise
Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time.
It could have been otherwise.
We have been created good by the good God. But we have been captured by sin, death, and slavery. In Jesus, God has …
11/12/23 Based On a True Story: Kakangelion
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11/5/23 Based On a True Story: The Gospel of God
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11/1/23 "All of the Saints"
Homily from the Solemnity of All Saints.
One day, this day could be your feast day.
The Feast of All Saints is offered to us as a day to praise God for all of the unnamed and unknown saints who have …
10/29/23 Lost: Love Is the Way
Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
You are called to be love.
When a person is lost, they need to know where they are. We know: you are here. But we also need to know where we are goi…
10/22/23 Lost: Every Step
Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Between the Promise and the Promised Land.
When a person is lost, it can feel like every step is taking them further and further away from where …
10/15/23 Lost: You Are Here
Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
This is life.
We need to understand that life is not waiting for us to start. This is life. This is your life. You are here. But we do have to a…
10/8/23 Lost: Have No Anxiety At All
Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.
What if? Or What is?
Not knowing where we are, where we are going, or how to get there can be incredibly daunting. It can bring us to a place …
10/1/23 Tough Love: Because He Asked Me To
Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
The freedom to love when you no longer feel like it.
The precondition for love is freedom. Both the freedom to say no and the freedom to say yes,…
09/24/23 Tough Love: Receive and Rejoice
Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
We choose our rivals.
We are all confronted with the temptation towards resentment, when we see the blessings or gifts that others have. This tem…
09/17/23 Tough Love: As We Forgive
Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Forgiveness is a decision.
One of the most difficult commands that Jesus has called us to is that we must forgive those who have hurt us and wh…
9/10/23 Tough Love: Only the Good Things
Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Do I love enough to listen? Do I love enough to speak?
In loving the people around us well, one thing we have to contend with is loving them well …
9/3/23 Deny Yourself
Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
"No" paves the way for "yes".
Jesus gives us the conditions for discipleship. We must deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him. But what…
8/27/23 The Question
Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
There are some questions that only you can answer.
In the Gospel today, Jesus asks two questions. But there is a third unspoken question that need…
8/20/23 More Knowledge or More Courage
Homily from the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Knowledge without action is useless.
Too often, our problem as followers of Christ is not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of courage. In order for us…