UMD NEWMAN CATHOLIC CAMPUS MINISTRY

By Father Mike Schmitz

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04/11/21 Scar Stories

04.12.2021

Homily from the Sunday of Divine Mercy. Every scar has a story. Virtually everyone has scars. And every scar has a story. Scars are reminders of our past...they are reminders that won’t go away. And Jesus has kept His wounds ...

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04.12.2021 04/11/21 Scar Stories Homily from the Sunday of Divine Mercy. Every scar has a story. Virtually everyone has scars. And every scar has a story. Scars are reminders of our past...they are reminders that won’t go away. And Jesus has kept His wounds ...
04.04.2021 04/04/21 Ellipsis Homily from the Mass of the Resurrection of Our Lord. It means that something more is coming. Peter told Jesus that he would die for Him. And he meant it. He just wasn’t ready at the right time. Mass Readings ...
04.02.2021 04/02/21 Gallicantu Homily from Good Friday of the Lord's Passion. Peter expected to fight in the Garden, not in the courtyard. Peter told Jesus that he would die for Him. And he meant it. He just wasn’t ready at the right time. ...
04.02.2021 04/01/21 Context Matters Homily from the Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper On the night He was betrayed…He gave. Everything in the Bible leads to the moment of the Last Supper…and leads to every time we are at the Mass. Mass Readings from ...
03.29.2021 03/28/21 The Truth and the Choice Homily from Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion. Christianity doesn’t offer comfort. It offers something else. In our culture today, we are able to avoid thinking of death. But death is the inevitable reality of living. Still, the fact that ...
03.22.2021 03/21/21 To The Heart: Vulnerable and Able Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Lent. A heart that is too soft has to be protected. A heart that is too tough can’t be touched. What good is it to have a heart that can be hurt by this ...
03.15.2021 03/14/21 To The Heart: Hidden Heart Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent. A hidden heart is a homeless heart. The People of Israel were brought into exile. It was imposed from the outside. But after King Cyrus game them a way home, many of them ...
03.08.2021 03/07/21 To The Heart: My Treacherous Heart Homily from the Third Sunday of Lent. Is the question, “Can I trust God?” Or is the better question, “Can God trust me?" There is something that all of us discover about ourselves the moment we have a minute of ...
03.01.2021 02/28/21 To The Heart: The Adventure of Obedience Homily from the Second Sunday of Lent. Obedience precedes understanding. We are made for adventure. But adventure means mystery and uncertainty. Often, what holds us back from action is a lack of knowing why. But what if there is a ...
02.22.2021 02/21/21 To The Heart: Untamed and Untamable Homily from the First Sunday of Lent. God is not safe, but He is good. Trust is a challenge for all of us. Trust in God is a battle that every person faces at some point in their lives. Often, ...
02.18.2021 02/17/21 To The Heart: Escape or Embrace Homily from Ash Wednesday. Return to the Lord with your whole heart. We are often tempted to run away from God and from difficult moments in life. We might even be tempted to escape from all that has been taken ...
02.18.2021 02/14/21 Hindsight 20/20: The Cost Homily from the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Every choice comes at a cost. Looking back, there are some things we could have known. And looking back, there are some things we could never have known. But one thing is ...
02.15.2021 02/07/21 Hindsight 20/20: In Good Times and In Bad Homily from the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Good times don’t last…and neither do bad times. One of the many things that life teaches us is that life is always changing. To grow is to change. There are times that ...
02.01.2021 01/31/21 Hindsight 20/20: Worthless Knowledge Homily from the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. I learned, but I didn’t grow. Knowledge is powerful. Having lived through this past year, and looking back on what we have been through is essential. We can have learned a great ...
01.25.2021 01/24/21 Hindsight 20/20: The Whole Story Homily from the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Editing is the enemy of how we remember the story. We look back so that we can see clearly and learn from our past. But we also have a temptation to edit ...
01.18.2021 01/17/21 Hindsight 20/20: The Moment Before the Moment Homily from the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. We can’t predict The Moment, but we can prepare in the moment before The Moment. While no one can predict the future, all of us can learn from the past. While none ...
01.11.2021 01/10/21 You Are My Son Homily from the Baptism of the Lord. At the Incarnation, God joined His dicinity to humanity...at the Baptism of Jesus, God identifies with our brokenness. What difference does the Baptism of Jesus make? It means that God doesn't stay away ...
12.27.2020 12/27/20 Holy Families Homily from the Mass of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Parents are not powerless. It can be so easy for parents to feel powerless when it comes to passing on the faith to their families. But there ...
12.25.2020 12/25/20 Taken Homily from the Mass of the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas). Why is He there? When you and I look at the image of the baby Jesus in the manger, how would we answer the question: why is He there? ...
12.20.2020 12/20/20 Silent Waiting Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Advent. Silence magnifies and waiting purifies. Waiting is not meant to be wasted. The chance to wait in silence is often given by God to serve a purpose...above all to change our faith into ...
12.14.2020 12/13/20 "I Am Not" Homily from the Third Sunday of Advent. No one can take from you what doesn’t belong to you. We all have the temptation to pretend to be someone or something other than we are. To pass ourselves off as someone ...
12.07.2020 12/06/20 Legacy Homily from the Second Sunday of Advent. We can’t go back to the beginning of the story, but we can start where we are and change the ending. Saint Peter reveals that the Day is coming when The Story will ...
11.30.2020 11/29/20 Be Here Homily from the First Sunday of Advent. God will not just get us through this moment…He has brought us to this moment. Too often, we find ourselves just wanting this moment to be “done." We miss out on the miracle ...
11.30.2020 11/22/20 Roadmap: Expect Delays Homily from the Solemnity of Christ the King. What you do with the delay makes all the difference. We have a destination: to be who we are and to be that well. We have a Roadmap and a Rule of ...
11.16.2020 11/15/20 Roadmap: Checkpoints Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. What have you done with what you've been given? No one ever sets out to lose. But losing is entirely possible: in business, relationships, and in the spiritual life. It is possible ...
11.10.2020 11/08/20 Roadmap: Accident or Excellent Homily from the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Excellence requires making the decision carefully, consistently, and quickly. The one question that can either deflate or motivate a person is “When?” This question reveals whether our goal is an actual goal ...
11.02.2020 11/01/20 Roadmap: Guardrails Homily from the Solemnity of All Saints. No one ever accidentally lived on purpose. No two saints are the same. There is no “cookie-cutter” path to holiness. While there are certain givens that must be present, each person has to ...
10.26.2020 10/25/20 Roadmap: Reclaimed and Repurposed Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Holiness isn’t always changing your what as much as changing your why. Our lives have been reclaimed by Christ and we have become a new creation. Because of this, every moment of ...
10.19.2020 10/18/20 Roadmap: Be A Saint Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The roadmap begins with “Who”. There is one true goal in life: to be a saint. Many of us believe this, but is there a path? Without a plan, we will certainly ...
10.12.2020 10/11/20 No Difference Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. There are many goods. There is only one best. Modern indifference is the inability to take joy in in one's situation regardless of the circumstances. It is seeing "no difference" between the ...
10.05.2020 10/04/20 It's Not Your Vineyard Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. God has made you for freedom from anxiety over the unforeseeable future, the unchangeable past, and your present responsibilities. Many people are overwhelmed by anxiety. Anxiety over all the things that need ...
09.28.2020 09/27/20 How Do I Look? Change Your Mind Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. If you can choose your thoughts you can change your thoughts. In the garden of the mind, our thoughts are constantly growing. Some we want, others we do not. As the gardeners ...
09.21.2020 09/20/20 How Do I Look? Highlighter Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. It doesn’t matter how long you live. What matters is how you live. Our lives will magnify (or highlight) something. Will they be so full of nice things that they will miss ...
09.14.2020 09/13/20 How Do I Look? The Cost of Forgiveness Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. There is no forgiveness without justice. Forgiveness is neither excusing nor enabling evil. There is always a debt that needs to be paid…and somebody needs to pay it. Mass Readings from September ...
09.06.2020 09/06/20 How Do I Look? Fighting For Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. How do Christians fight? We all have experienced the temptation to see someone who has failed or someone who has hurt us as a non-person. But taking responsibility for the people in ...
08.31.2020 08/30/20 How Do I Look? "Lucky" Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Am I being conformed or transformed? Christians must not only live differently in the world, we must look differently at the world. Mass Readings from August 30, 2020: Jeremiah 20:7-9 Psalm 63:2-6, ...
08.24.2020 08/23/20 Influencer Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. The Church has influence even when it isn’t considered important. We can often confuse influence with importance; authority with power. But the Church has been given the very influence and authority of ...
08.17.2020 08/16/20 Great Faith Homily from the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Faith can only become great when it is tested. What kind of faith do you want? Faith that makes a difference because it is lived out is the only kind of faith ...
08.09.2020 08/09/20 Why Did You Stop? Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. It is one thing to start walking. It is another thing to keep walking. Distraction is anything that takes our focus away from where it needs to be. Mass Readings from August ...
08.03.2020 08/02/20 All We Have Homily from the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Do I have an attitude of scarcity or an attitude of abundance? All of us have gifts in our lives and all of us have real struggles in our lives. What weight ...
07.06.2020 07/05/20 Lead Yourself First Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Freedom requires virtue. The Founding Fathers gave the world a republic that necessitated a people who were virtuous, moral, and religious. Mass Readings from July 5, 2020: Zechariah 9:9-10 Psalm 145:1-2, 8-9, ...
06.28.2020 06/28/20 Something to Lose Homily from the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. It is a gift to have something to lose. Every good thing in our lives comes from Jesus. Since He is the source of everything, He must be more important than anything. ...
06.21.2020 06/21/20 Fear No One Homily from the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time. You matter to God and you have a job to do. Jesus tells us to "fear no one." Not because there is no danger, but because He is calling us to not ...
06.14.2020 06/14/20 No Longer Optional Homily from the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ. The Eucharist will never be optional...until the day it is no longer an option. The moment worship becomes about “what I get” it ceases to be an act of ...
06.07.2020 06/07/20 In His Image and Likeness Homily from the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. You do not have to know the details of a person’s life to know they are worth loving. Human worth is rooted in our deepest identity. And our deepest identity comes ...
06.07.2020 05/31/20 Exiles: The First Gift Homily from Pentecost Sunday. For the love of God has been poured into our hearts. Jesus sent the Holy Spirit so that we could receive the first gift of the Holy Spirit: to know what it is to be loved ...
05.25.2020 05/24/20 Exiles: Restoration Homily from the Ascension of the Lord. Live the reason. Return from exile is not about a change in location, it is about a change in vocation. It is less about geography and more about mission. The goal is not ...
05.18.2020 05/17/20 Exiles: Why Go Back? Homily from the Sixth Sunday of Easter. Not a habit or a have-to, but the heart is the reason. At some point, the exile will end. You will be able to go back. But why? What is the reason why ...
05.10.2020 05/10/20 Insecure: Uncertain Plans Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Easter. Advance boldly into the shadows of uncertainty. If we are wise, we will think about the future and plan for it. And if we are even wiser, we will be able to let ...
05.04.2020 05/03/20 Insecure: Untroubled by the Unknown Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter. Knowing does not equal security. In a world of insecurity, it is less important to know where one is being lead, and more important to know who is doing the leading. Mass Readings ...

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UMD NEWMAN CATHOLIC CAMPUS MINISTRY episodes:

04/11/21 Scar Stories

04/04/21 Ellipsis

04/02/21 Gallicantu

04/01/21 Context Matters

03/28/21 The Truth and the Choice

03/21/21 To The Heart: Vulnerable and Able

03/14/21 To The Heart: Hidden Heart

03/07/21 To The Heart: My Treacherous Heart

02/28/21 To The Heart: The Adventure of Obedience

02/21/21 To The Heart: Untamed and Untamable

02/17/21 To The Heart: Escape or Embrace

02/14/21 Hindsight 20/20: The Cost

02/07/21 Hindsight 20/20: In Good Times and In Bad

01/31/21 Hindsight 20/20: Worthless Knowledge

01/24/21 Hindsight 20/20: The Whole Story

01/17/21 Hindsight 20/20: The Moment Before the Moment

01/10/21 You Are My Son

12/27/20 Holy Families

12/25/20 Taken

12/20/20 Silent Waiting

12/13/20 "I Am Not"

12/06/20 Legacy

11/29/20 Be Here

11/22/20 Roadmap: Expect Delays

11/15/20 Roadmap: Checkpoints

11/08/20 Roadmap: Accident or Excellent

11/01/20 Roadmap: Guardrails

10/25/20 Roadmap: Reclaimed and Repurposed

10/18/20 Roadmap: Be A Saint

10/11/20 No Difference

10/04/20 It's Not Your Vineyard

09/27/20 How Do I Look? Change Your Mind

09/20/20 How Do I Look? Highlighter

09/13/20 How Do I Look? The Cost of Forgiveness

09/06/20 How Do I Look? Fighting For

08/30/20 How Do I Look? "Lucky"

08/23/20 Influencer

08/16/20 Great Faith

08/09/20 Why Did You Stop?

08/02/20 All We Have

07/05/20 Lead Yourself First

06/28/20 Something to Lose

06/21/20 Fear No One

06/14/20 No Longer Optional

06/07/20 In His Image and Likeness

05/31/20 Exiles: The First Gift

05/24/20 Exiles: Restoration

05/17/20 Exiles: Why Go Back?

05/10/20 Insecure: Uncertain Plans

05/03/20 Insecure: Untroubled by the Unknown

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