Father Mike Schmitz

If I do, then I need to...

plant those seeds.

I need to actually invest those things.

It doesn't make any sense to plant rice and then be surprised that rice is growing.

It doesn't make any sense to say, I want potatoes, but instead I'm going to plant beans.

Does that make sense?

I'm mixing my metaphors here, but it's so important.

St.

Paul says at the very end here, well, close to the very end, he says,

Let us not grow weary in well-doing for in due season, we shall reap if we do not lose heart.

So my brothers and sisters, my friends in due season, we shall reap if we do not lose heart.

So don't lose heart.

Praying for you.

He says, far be it from me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.

The last words of St.

Paul in this letter, he says, henceforth, let no man trouble me, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

that's led some people to wonder if St.

Paul had the stigmata, right?

The actual wounds of Jesus and his hands on his feet and his sides, like St.

Padre Pio did, and some others have had this, but St.