Father Mike Schmitz

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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) · Day 269: Our Missionary Witness (2026) · 26 Sep 2026 podcast

In order that the message of salvation can show the power of its truth and radiance before men, it must be authenticated by the witness of the life of Christians. matched

This is so important. matched

It's authenticated that when your life and my life is transformed because why? matched

Because we're just as broken as everyone else. matched

Like we're just as needy as everyone else. matched

We're just as rotten in some ways, you know, I'm not not ontologically rotten, but you know, we've been made so good in God's image and yet we've been broken, right? matched

Fallen. matched

We're not depraved, but we are deprived of God's glory, right? matched

We're not depraved, but we have that brokenness. matched

And therefore, when we matched

exhibit, when we demonstrate, when we live in such a way that our lives have been transformed by the way that we live. matched

We reveal the power of God. matched

That that the message of Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit that truly truly works is authenticated in our lives, in your life. matched

And that's the thing is that's this happens all of the time. matched

Where I'll talk to people who will say, you know, yeah, it was it was this person down the street, and they're just a normal person. matched

They have a normal job or they're a stay-at-home parent or whatever they are, but they just they seem to have something that I long for. matched

Maybe that that's something. matched

Maybe that's something is is a certain peace, right? matched

Maybe that's something is a certain joy or a certain kind of contentment, a a certain trust even in the midst of pain and suffering in dilemmas. matched

And they say, what is that? matched

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