"Deny Yourself" | 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Mike's Homily)  

This is the first time I have been to a Sunday mass. I've been to one baptism, one funeral, and one midnight mass over the years. It is so beautiful and I felt so good when I left. I don't know if the Catholic Church is where I need to be, but I'm grateful for the opportunity to pray with you all today. I always love Father Mike's homily.

Thank you Father, for every time you speak I am brought closer to our Lord and God. God bless you always.

Thank you, Fr. Mike for all your homily‘s. Even after attending mass at my own parish, I still open up and listen to your homily because you have a gift of delivering the message to anyone listening. I enjoy value and appreciate all your wisdom and knowledge.

Father Mike, my goal is to offer God everything. To say yes, God, i'm totally yours. Thank you for teaching us and inspiring us through God. He has made you a wise and caring priest to serve Him.

Thanks!

God, I am yours. I love your son Jesus and His mother Mary. God lead me where you want me to be. Thank you Father Mike for this message on a day, today when I felt there was nothing to give Him. Thank you. I am so uplifted right now. Thank you for teaching us and inspiring this old woman, a Catholic of the last four years. Thank you and yes I pray for you.

God bless you father Mike . I'm listening to your podcast (Catechism). Thank you for all you do. May our Queen protect you from all sickness and harm 🙏

God I know no matter our struggle, we can turn to you. God please continue to give me strength to overcome my fears. I want to give up and quit. But I keep faith even as I constantly struggle to take care of my children. My husband died years ago. At times I feel so alone. I’m a single mom. I suffered an heart attack and I’m battling lupus. I’m overwhelmed. Both of my sons are autistic. I’m constantly struggling to buy groceries. Struggling to pay rent. Struggling to buy my children’s school supplies. I don’t know how I’m going to get through it but thankfully I have you Lord! I know you will provide. Faith over fear!

Thank you Fr. I understand and needed to hear this. 🙏

amazing

Lord totally strengthen me as I say YES

Trusting my own self and learning to Be my own friend has taken a lifetime of prayer and meditation to our God, our Almighty Father, In Jesus's name. 🙏MEN

My N.O. homily today of course not as deep as Father Mike but I got a great nugget from it..."God doesn't want you successful...he wants you a Saint". Never stop saying that when comparison comes on..😇🙏🏽❤️‍🔥🦨

Hard to watch Fr. mike without jotting . It’s class-inspiring always . The hardest thing to do is the simplest in the world - saying “No”

Best explanation I have ever heard. You are a true gift from God Fr. Mike. We truly are very blessed to be able to hear your homilies.

This is one of the best homilies ever! I applaud you Fr Mike! May God bless you.

I agree and this is so important! No can save us from so much trouble and so many sins!! Love the example of Ronins and Samurais too. Thank you, Fr. Mike for motivating us and sharing the hard truths!

Beautifully explained Fr. Mike. All honor and glory to God.

Jesus loves you

Very emotional and inspiring

Maybe all we have to offer is a broken heart. But God can do more with it than we ever could.

Thank you Father Mike! 🙏

Another awesome homily I can apply to my life right this moment. Thank you, Fr Mike!

"I am going to spend the best that I have, the best of me for my children." Thank you Fr. Mike. I need to hear this... thank you God for speaking to me through this message.

Amen.

You spoke right to my heart ❤ I am praying for you, please pray for me 🙏🏼✝️🙏🏼

Thank you 🙏

Thanks 🙏 Sacrificial Love ❤️

I Never say No to Jesus. Not for even barely even one hour of every day.

I never coment but this was amazing. Thank you

We should absolutely surrender to the lord and serve him. I just want to let you guys know we are saved (permanently) by grace through faith. You serve the lord as a reasonable service.

Thank you father mike, this is always an ongoing issue for everyone really. I view this as an ongoing challenge, to be "less" of me and more of the Lord, or giving Him space to transform me. I often think of this in terms of my ego. Assessing emotions and fears that hurt me becomes, is this coming from my ego? Because "I am a hard working person, or a successful person" or what have you, when I'm hurt or injured by others, or feel things are beneath me, it is my ego talking. Defending your ego against God's will doesn't bring you closer to Him. But this a daily challenge for us, and I always try to ask myself, "is this just your ego talking?"

Hey mine is the first like.

Amen

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Thank you for this teaching. I have long struggled with my identity and now I see clearly who I am in Christ and I want to give him the best of me. All of me and my life. I felt the struggle actually be lifted off my shoulders so to speak and a great peace came over me. God is good and so faithful. ❤

God only cares about his chosen few. The rest of us are lost, no matter how much we seek him. Like callus negligent dad. Gives us enough to keep us alive, but not enough to feel acknowledged, loved, or wanted.

Amen 🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽 father mike is it wrong if I miss church sometimes because I’m my mom’s caregiver and sometimes she needs me at 7am 🕖 that’s what time mass starts but I do watch your mass when I can’t attend physically

FATHER. WOODY IN. DENVER. HAD. A. PACK. OF. SMOKES. TOSSED. IN. HIS. CASKET. 🤣

Offering God your breath, your thought, your memory is still putting yourself before God. This is because your ego is saying, "This moment/thing is MINE so here have it". To correct this you have to approach the offering from an egoless position. So, in example, if you gave me your memory of an event, what the heck would I do with that as a deity? I already know your skewed perceptions and misinterpretions of that benign life occurance. So, what am I supposed to do with it, hang it on my cloud wall as a decorative poster? Humans share memories with each other in order to understand the other's perceptions and place in the world, for sympathetic empathy, for feeling understood, for intimacy, etc. So, giving a sigh or a thought to God is moot. It should be a request for forgiveness in most cases or, at best, a moment of grateful praise. But, it's certainly not living as a sacrifice. So, then, what is? Well, it's putting down our massive egos and knowing God knows us. It's knowing that if you can be on the same wave length as your best friend and knowing that you have the ability to know each others thoughts, well, then how much more and more clearly can God do that? So, in short, it's gently setting down your ego and skepticism, acknowledging that He is more capable then your best friend at communicating vibes with you, learning to hear Him, and then listening to what He tells you in order to be guided by Him in everything you say, do, think, and desire. You know that song, "I will follow him, follow him wherever he may goooo...", well, that's being a living sacrifice. It's listening and obeying Him, not listening to the Ego, not the random thoughts, not the suppressed memories, not the unconscious mind. You have to align with the vibe God is on. The soul is like a radio frequency, the body is like a radio. You have to tune in and reduce the scattered signals making white noise. Being a living sacrifice is living in love and understanding that God does not share it with just anyone (even though everyone is welcome to ask and find).

yep dont look up 😂 must be a midwest German thing.

Soooo the midwest is the only place people don't look up?! No. The midwest is the only place with manners? Also no. Let's not be egocentric for our area ;)

Il faut mieux être chrétien en dehors de l'église..

NO Pride..Lust..Greed..Anger and Worry says YES to Peace! 😇 ❤

John Cena please wrestle me in god's name

The key to humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less

Amen. I do struggle with saying no to various things. Great, now that Ive admited that, I have to find out why?

AMEN AND AMEN 🙏..I OFFER YOU MY LIFE AND ALL TO YOU MY LORD MY GOD...THANKYOU 🙏 PTL

Disown is such a great term to describe letting go of self and giving ownership to God. Transferring the deed of self ❤ After all, God is the original owner

Amen. I offer to God my life in its entirety. 🙏🏿

11:54 and on, about the samurai... that spoke at volumes to me.

FANTASTIC homily! I always love listening to a good Fr. Mike Schmitz homily

Thank you father

Peace be. Bingo! Roman 12:1-2 is it; it is what you word in plain English bad manners--- suffer yourself on to God. Amen.❤

Thanks!

"If we had any possessions, we would need weapons & laws to defend them." Saint Francis

BAM !!

"saying NO to a greater YES" . Love it. Fr.

Your sermons are much more fruitful and inspiring than those we get at our Masses. Today’s ‘Deny Yourself’ touched me deeply.

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I appreciate the opportunity to listen to these Sunday homilies. I'd like to suggest, though, that these videos begin with reading of the gospel. I realize that not all homilies relate to the gospel, but many - like this one - do. So listening to the gospel first gives us some perspective for the homily. (I suppose I could watch the entire UMD mass - but already attended mass today, in my home parish!)

does anyone know how to get these weekly Sundays to go automatically into my email? I have subscribed.

Thank you for this Fr.Mike❤❤❤ God bless you always

Kurosawa, amiright? Great homily, Fr. Mike

Could you make a video about scrupulosity at some point?

Kids are geniuses because they are the best "no"-ers 😂

Super duper

I am actually still confused about the 'deny' part. Perhaps because English is not my first language. According to my understanding, it means all that we do, and all that we have is not ours, right? So we have to offer it to God; Our struggle, our misery, our happiness, our worry, etc. But there was a good Christian country singer. He worshiped God through music since he liked music so much. But then he tried to implement the 'deny' part by stopping making music and becoming a missionary. So my question is: does denying equal to saying no to what we love? Father Mike said at the beginning of the video that it is not like that. But in the end, it still seems a bit blurry for me. I hope somebody can enlighten me..❤

Great homily, Father Mike! Thank you for it. How does one offer God everything by just saying "God, I offer this thing to you?" What does that mean in that moment?

Sooooo, I’m with you as a consecrated... offer my body: check got it, my spirit, my graces, my love, check , check check. Don’t have favorites, check.... well sort of, check. But submission to the other in the church authority makes women whores, objectified, trafficked, and ripped to shreds internally, often leading to PIDs which most victims don’t realize they have.I realize it’s not just women consecrated used as sexual stress relief but also meth opiates and alcohol. The answer is the truth. I can forgive my brothers for drugging and raping once but after that you opt for heartless drug pushing pimps who hate life and God too. Not all but,...most. The solution as the Lord rightly suggested is, stop the abuse of The blemished Lamb or stop the abuse of His lambs. I don’t own my body but it is the temple of the Holy Spirit and I can’t continue to allow the priesthood to desecrate it either. Be men, love and sacrifice, get consent and do not possess another, unless you’re opting out of consecrated life.

and I will not deny myself, in the case of my life. I prefer to reject a lot of things around me. for example, this cute game "if one person would shows her that she is not important, then she will be happy for attention from someone else", what kind of nonsense is that. I am the subject, not the object. in the same way, I start trolling everyone who expects some extra interest or sympathy from me after the very first like or comment (very neutral likes and comments, I'm just kind, although indifferent to most of ppl, I know social media counts likes and comments). people are mad about it, who told them i'm this desperate? I will see it once and i will never forgive it, this is utter nonsense.

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a strange advice from a flirting steak eater :D. Who lives in a HOUSE. Your denying yourseldf is our prosperity :D

Thank you father Mike for the two days teaching it’s a blessing to hear from you as always usually my whole morning I just sent you it’s 1236 California time p.m. I pray for you every day God is with you thank you it’s 75 years old you keep teaching me where I want to give up so much with pain but thank you for being there thank you with all my heart and my soul to my heart thank you God bless you and I always pray for you calling me and prayed for you last night at church this morning thank you