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Fr. Mike Schmitz is a priest and the Director of the Youth and Young Adult Ministries in the Diocese of Duluth. He has been a speaker for various Catholic programming, including the Fellowship of Catholic University Students leadership summit, Ascension Press, and Steubenville conferences. Lighthouse Catholic Media publishes many of his talks.
His latest video is: How We Use the Word "Should"
We may be too hard on ourselves when considering how we use the word “should.” Of course, we should go to Mass and pray every day. We should avoid stealing and other sins. However, in the midst of the healthy "shoulds," there could be unhealthy "shoulds," like, “I should enjoy going to Mass and praying,” or “it shouldn’t be this hard to avoid sin.”
But no one ever said that. No one ever said doing what’s right would be easy. So let’s stop "shoulding" ourselves, and let’s rely on God’s grace to pull us through instead. Our weakness is an opportunity to embrace God’s grace. Fr. Mike says if all the things we should do were easy, we wouldn’t need Jesus.
“For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Corinthians 12:10)
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