UMD Newman Catholic Campus Ministry

By Father Mike Schmitz

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Every week Father Mike will draw out powerful, relevant reflections based on the Sunday Mass scripture readings that will leave you motivated to apply them to daily life's blessings and challenges!
Both engaging and captivating, these 20-30 minute homilies will leave you hungry for the One who gave everything to feed you.
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01/16/22 Jesus Changes Things

01.17.2022

Homily from the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Jesus changes shame into joy. Mass Readings from January 16, 2022: Isaiah 62:1-5 Psalms 96:1-3, 7-10 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 John 2:1-11

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01.17.2022 01/16/22 Jesus Changes Things Homily from the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Jesus changes shame into joy. Mass Readings from January 16, 2022: Isaiah 62:1-5 Psalms 96:1-3, 7-10 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 John 2:1-11
01.09.2022 01/09/22 Children of the Father Homily from The Baptism of the Lord. Why was Jesus baptized? Not because He needed it, but because we need it. We need baptism to be saved, to be children of God, and to be in a new and real ...
01.02.2022 01/02/22 It's Not About You Homily from the Epiphany of the Lord.Worship can help us escape the trap that life is about us.When life is about us, it is not food for the human heart. When we realize that life is about Someone other than ...
12.26.2021 12/26/21 Be Careful Homily from the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Everyone is part of a family in some way. Be careful with each other. Mass Readings from December 26, 2021: Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14 Psalms 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 ...
12.25.2021 12/25/21 Look Up Homily from the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas Mass). We are so distracted by so many things that we need to look up. But sometimes we need to look lower in order to see where God is in our lives. ...
12.21.2021 12/19/21 Abounding Love: Love Commits Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Advent. In order to truly grow in love, there needs to be the willingness to make a commitment. And there needs to be the ability to keep a commitment. Mass Readings from December 19, ...
12.13.2021 12/12/21 Abounding Love: Large Hearted Homily from the Third Sunday of Advent.Be Where Your Feet Are.Too often, what keeps our heart small is the fact that we do the minimum minimally. What we are called to do, we put the least amount of our heart ...
12.09.2021 12/08/21 Immaculate Conception Homily from the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.God gives exactly what is needed for whatever He has called us to.The solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of our Lady affirms the fact that Mary was preserved ...
12.07.2021 12/05/21 Abounding Love: What is Worth Your Heart? Homily from the Second Sunday of Advent.Abounding love is focused love.Too often, we do not love well because we do not discern what is worth loving; we don't pay attention to the value of things. Because of this, our love ...
11.30.2021 11/28/21 Abounding Love: No Room Homily from the First Sunday of Advent.Two things are clear about the inn at Bethlehem: Love Incarnate showed up and there was no room for Him.Too often, we want to love the way we have been created to love. But ...
11.22.2021 11/21/21 All Over the Place Homily from the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.When torn asunder, we are held together by worship of the King of Kings.The end of the year offers us the chance to recognize the little lords and ...
11.16.2021 11/14/21 Always Forward. Never Back. Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time.The struggle doesn't change the destination. The struggle is the way.When we are in the middle of a journey...or the middle of life...we will encounter obstacles. In that encounter with obstacles, we will ...
11.08.2021 11/07/21 Learning to Lose: Practice Dying Homily from the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.Death is unavoidable.We will all lose everything. We will all lose everything...even to the point of our very lives. Rather than avoid death, we can practice dying by actively giving away our claims ...
11.01.2021 11/01/21 Your Feast Day Homily from the Solemnity of All Saints.One day, this will be your feast day.The Solemnity of All Saints is the day the Church has given us to celebrate and honor what God has done in the lives of the countless ...
11.01.2021 10/31/21 Learning to Lose: All is Lost Homily from the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.When all is lost, love God with all that's left.We are called to love God with everything. It is easier to love when we are winning, but are we able to love when ...
10.25.2021 10/24/21 Learning to Lose: Get Up Homily from the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.Life is about losing. It is not about quitting.It is one thing to lose. It is another thing when those losses begin to stack up and we get to the point where we ...
10.18.2021 10/17/21 Learning to Lose: Winner or Witness? Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time.Life isn't about power, it is about being poured out.The world sees life as being about winning. And to win is to gain power and influence. If a person wins they get power, ...
10.11.2021 10/10/21 Holding On: Holding On to You Homily from the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.What you've been holding on to ends up holding on to you.Anything can keep us from Heaven. Anything that we prefer over and over (and anything that we defer putting down over and ...
10.04.2021 10/03/21 Holding On: The Power of a Promise Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time."Because I said I would."We are not yet who we are called to be. Sometimes, in order to become the person we are called to be, we need to stop holding on to ...
09.27.2021 09/26/21 Holding On: Patient and Ruthless Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.What if the biggest obstacle to being the person you were created to be is the person you are currently choosing to be? There are things that we need to stop holding on ...
09.21.2021 09/19/21 Desperate Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.Edit, Convince, and Worry. Or Honesty, Trust, and Thanking God ahead of time. "The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation." We do not merely desire, we have inordinate desire driven by ...
09.13.2021 09/12/21 Not Mine Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.Faith must be lived, not merely believed.It is wise to take responsibility for one’s own time, resources, and family. And yet, we must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. ...
09.06.2021 09/05/21 Seen. Known. Loved. Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time.Transition always involves destruction.Jesus heals the man who was deaf and mute. In doing this, He was destroying something in the man’s life…his identity. Jesus has to take away the false identity in ...
08.30.2021 08/29/21 Living in Later? Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.Am I doing “everything but”?Often we avoid doing what is essential by filling our lives with many things that are optional. Mass Readings from August 29, 2021:Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8Psalm 15:2-5James 1:17-18, 21-22, 27Mark ...
08.23.2021 08/22/21 Consumer Catholic: The Church of Me Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.Everything I like and nothing that I don't.The temptation to create a God in our own image and have a church in our own image is strong. But God has revealed Himself to ...
08.16.2021 08/15/21 Consumer Catholic: The Body Homily from the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. You are your body.The Assumption of Mary reveals many things. One of the things it reveals is that our destiny is to be reunited with our resurrected bodies ...
08.09.2021 08/08/21 Consumer Catholic: Farther to Go Homily from the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The best of your life is ahead of you...you will need food for the journey.The worst days of our life often com after the best days of our life. But even in ...
08.02.2021 08/01/21 Consumer Catholic: Choose God. Homily from the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Choose God over the works of God.The signs point to Jesus and Jesus is the point of the signs. When we are challenged to merely consume… When we are challenged to want ...
07.26.2021 07/25/21 Consumer Catholic: Everything Given. Nothing Wasted. Homily from the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Nothing given to God is wasted.The apostles asked the question, "What good are these for so many?" Yet, Jesus invited them to give what they had and to trust Him with all ...
07.19.2021 07/18/21 The Poison of Indifference Homily from the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Indifference does not mean you don’t care; it just means you don’t care enough to move.There are many opportunities to waste one’s life. One of those ways is to allow one’s circle ...
07.12.2021 07/11/21 Chosen and Consecrated Homily from the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. You are wanted and set apart.You are special. We’ve heard that for so much of our lives that we’ve either grown numb to it or no longer believe it. But what if ...
07.05.2021 07/04/21 "Ruined" Homily from the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The beauty is in the broken.Too often, when we encounter our own brokenness and woundedness, we either pretend it isn’t there or we just want it to be taken away. But surrendered ...
06.28.2021 06/27/21 Plan B Homily from the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Love requires risk. Risk requires courage.Many of us make plans. And many of those plans don’t end up working out the way that we had expected. Fortunately, God calls us to be ...
06.21.2021 06/20/21 Everyday Courage: Into the Storm Homily from the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time. God is in the Storm.There are times when we do everything God has asked us to do…and we still find ourselves in the midst of a storm. In those moments, we are ...
06.14.2021 06/13/21 Everyday Courage Homily from the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. Everyday courage simply does what is necessary.Courage is not merely needed for the big moments of life, but is required for each moment of a life well-lived. Courage is all of The ...
06.07.2021 06/06/21 The Crisis of Love Homily from The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. Do we lack faith? Or do we lack love?Most people who call themselves Catholic do not believe one of the most central and most powerful teaching in ...
06.01.2021 05/30/21 Secret Identity Homily from the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.What is God's deepest secret? What is yours?What we are is shaped and revealed by what we choose. Who we are is established by relationships. Mass Readings from May 30, 2021:Deuteronomy 4:32-34, ...
05.23.2021 05/23/21 Kingdom Gifts Homily from Pentecost Sunday.Am I willing to use the gifts that God has already given?At Pentecost, the disciples received the Holy Spirit and the subsequent gifts of the Holy Spirit. These gifts glorify the Father and have changed the world. ...
05.17.2021 05/16/21 You Will Be Martyrs Homily from the Mass of the Ascension of the Lord.Nice is different than good.Jesus doesn't call us to simply be "nice people." Jesus promises to send the Holy Spirit so that we can be more than we are now...so that ...
05.10.2021 05/09/21 Spark Joy Homily from the Sith Sunday of Easter.Joy is rooted in confidence and comes as a consequence.We can choose joy only insofar as we can choose the source of our joy. Joy comes as a consequence; it is a fruit. And ...
05.03.2021 05/02/21 Love Limits You Homily from the Fifth Sunday of Easter.Practice making the promise.We find ourselves always moving and never done. We have so many options that we experience decision paralysis and subsequent decision dissatisfaction. But we are made for a full life. A ...
04.26.2021 04/25/21 Inclusive Love/Exclusive Claim Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter.Inclusive means neither passive nor permissive.To be included is an incredible gift. To be inclusive is powerful. It means more than being “welcome”, it means being radically open and desperately fighting to bring people ...
04.19.2021 04/18/21 To Be A Witness Homily from the Third Sunday of Easter.It is possible to see the miracle and to not be a witness.It is possible to encounter God and go back to the same life. It is possible to live as if the miracle ...
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 in order ...
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 from April ...
04.03.2021 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. Mass Readings ...
04.02.2021 04/01/21 Context Matters Homily from the Evening Mass of the Lord's SupperOn 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 April 1, ...
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 we will ...
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 world? Many ...
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 chose to ...

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