Father Mike Schmitz

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The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) · Day 266: Son of the Father (2026) · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

Now, this that tradition comes way back in the early church when the church had to celebrate mass underground in the catacombs. voice-verified

Oftentimes they would use the sarcophagus or sarcophagi, the coffins of saints as the altar. voice-verified

And so there's this connection right there with, OK, here are our ancestors in the faith. voice-verified

Here are the ones who have gone before us. voice-verified

And we just kind of. voice-verified

remember them and ask for intercession, just like I ask for you to pray for me and I pray for you. voice-verified

We intercede for one another. voice-verified

And we also know, as we heard Jesus say two days ago, that God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. voice-verified

Therefore, all those who die in him are still alive, right? voice-verified

And so, of course, they can offer prayers for us, just like you and I can offer prayers for each other. voice-verified

And so we have that, that voice-verified

relic as a reminder of that saint and those who have gone before us, the way God has worked in the lives of imperfect people to give glory, but also as that tie to history as well. voice-verified

Also, as well as a tie to right now, you know, when we get to the book of Revelation, what we're going to see is we're going to see all the saints, like all those in heaven, because lowercase s, saints, anyone who's baptized, everyone who's in heaven, the holy ones are the saints. voice-verified

um we see all those saints in the book of revelation gathered around the throne of the lamb and they are offering up prayers and so we recognize that when we pray the mass on earth we're joining um the prayer of the mass essentially uh the glory to the father in the power of the holy spirit through jesus christ um we're joining that heavenly worship that's happening right now and so that relic in the altar is voice-verified

a reminder of that

anyways that all that background is to say that here voice-verified

Where I am in the Diocese of Duluth in the cathedral, the relic underneath the cathedral is actually of Matthew the Apostle, which is just remarkable, right? voice-verified

We have a piece of the bone of the man who wrote the Gospel of Matthew, the tax collector who was called from his customs post by Jesus, come follow me, who got up and then followed after the Lord. voice-verified

And we realize, wow, voice-verified

a living connection, a historical connection with the early church, with this particular apostle whose gospel we have been listening to for the last eight or nine days. voice-verified

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