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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.

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
 
Nothing to Offer. Nothing to Prove. Nothing to Hide.
 
When we stand before the gates of Heaven and we are asked why we should be let in...what is our answer? How would we approach Heaven? How do we approach God now? We might approach God with our resume, or as an audition, or with perfection...but we need to approach in a different way.
 Mass Readings from October 26, 2025: Sirach 35:12-14, 16-18 Psalm 34:2-3, 17-18, 19, 232 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18 
Luke 18:9-14

10/26/25 I Got Nothin'

Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
 
Persist through severity.
 
There are big moments in our lives. We usually think of the beginning or the end of something as the moments of consequence. But the middle often holds the most impactful moments of consequence; times when we are called to persevere...to "remain faithful" to the decisions we have made.
 Mass Readings from October 19, 2025: Exodus 17:8-13 Psalm 121:1-82 Timothy 3:14-4:2 
Luke 18:1-8

10/19/25 Moments of Consequence

Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
 
Break the cycle and build your life on a relationship with the God who saved your life.
 
We often find ourselves in the same cycle as many people in the Bible: We find ourselves in desperate need, we cry out to God, He answers, we thank Him...and then we forget. There is a way to break this cycle and build our lives on a relationship with the God who saved our lives.
 Mass Readings from October 12, 2025: 2 Kings 5:14-17 Psalm 98:1, 2-3, 3-42 Timothy 2:8-13 
Luke 17:11-19

10/12/25 Two Mule Loads

Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.
 
You have already been given everything you need to be a saint.
 
Imagine finding out that you had an inheritance. So many problems could be solved and you could do so much...if only you had more. But what if you had everything you need already?
 Mass Readings from October 5, 2025: Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4 Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-92 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14 
Luke 17:5-10

10/05/25 Inheritance

Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
 
When comfort is our god, we end up underliving our lives.
 
Modern life has done a powerful job of reducing stark deprivation. This is a good thing. But one of the results is that many of us have become captive to comfort.
 Mass Readings from September 28, 2025: Amos 6:1a, 4-7 Psalm 146:7, 8-9, 9-101 Timothy 6:11-16 
Luke 16:19-31

9/28/25 The god of Our Generation

Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
 
Don't let what Jesus did for you end with you.
 
Jesus is the one Mediator between God and humanity. He has saved us. But God wills that all humans are saved. Because of this, He calls those who have been saved by Him to brings His salvation to everyone else.
 Mass Readings from September 21, 2025: Amos 8:4-7 Psalm 113:1-2, 4-6, 7-81 Timothy 2:1-8 
Luke 16:1-13

9/21/25 Mini-Mediators

Homily from the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
The sign of our shame has become the symbol of our hope. 

 
The Cross of Jesus is God's answer to our guilt. The Cross of Jesus is God's answer to our lack of trust. The Cross of Jesus is God's answer to evil.
 Mass Readings from September 14, 2025:Numbers 21:4b-9Psalm 78:1bc-2, 34-35, 36-37, 38Philippians 2:6-11 
John 3:13-17

9/14/25 Words Fail

Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time 
 
Whenever there is something of value that we desire, we have to ask these two questions.
 
Jesus gives the conditions for discipleship. He gives us the very "cost" of being His disciple. The condition is: He must be FIRST. He must be loved before all others.
 Mass Readings from Septemeber 7, 2025: Wisdom 9:13-18b Psalm 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14 and 17Philemon 9-10, 12-17 
Luke 14:25-33

9/7/25 Two Questions

Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
 
Humility is nothing other than acknowledging and living the truth.
 
Humility is not pretending to be someone other than we are. It is neither pretending to be better nor pretending to be worse than we are. But is the freedom and the joy of living the full truth about ourselves.
 Mass Readings from August 31, 2025: Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 Psalm 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a 
Luke 14:1, 7-14

8/31/25 Freedom and Joy

Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
 
Discipline isn't the point, but it is the path.
 
God calls us to develop the potential He has given us by leaning into the discipline He is calling us to. Who is it you want to be? What do you want to be true about you?
 Mass Readings from August, 24, 2025:Isaiah 66:18-21 Psalm 117:1, 2Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13 
Luke 13:22-30

8/24/25 Begin. Or begin again.

Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
 
 Our answer makes a difference.
 
We are presented today with the single most important question any of us will be asked and all of us will have to answer: who do you say that Jesus is?
 Mass Readings from September 15, 2024: Isaiah 50:5-9 Psalms 116:1-9James 2:14-18 
Mark 8:27-35

09/15/24 The Most Important Question

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