Father Mike Schmitz
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327 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 4d ago
Father Mike Schmitz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They can't just even be a really good person.
What you have to have evidence for is heroic virtue.
So I'm disqualified in that sense of like we're all, many of us may be disqualified.
If there's heroic virtue, it is buried deeply, deeply.
But Archbishop Poulton Sheen, there's evidence of heroic, not just ordinary, but heroic virtue in his life.
And I go back, there was a book he wrote.
I think it's called Treasures in Clay.
It's his partial autobiography of his life.
And there was a story that he recounted that I just thought, and he said it in such a matter of fact, recounted it in such a matter of fact way, but it was so striking to me.
There was something along the lines like this.
I think he was already an archbishop and he was driving to a thing, whatever the thing was.
And he saw some children that looked like they were in distress.
And so he stopped to ask what they needed.
And what they needed was there was someone, again, I'm gonna get these details wrong because the idea remains deeply in me, but even if the specifics aren't, someone they loved or someone they were related to was in distress, whether they're physically ill, dying, need.
And so he said, okay, take me to them.
These kids led him to, I think it was the bedside of this person.
He prayed with them, probably anointed them.
Again, I got the details wrong, but the idea I have.
So the idea is this.
Wow, I have driven many times and seen people on the side of the road and I've never stopped to say, hey, how can I help?
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