Fr. Mike Schmitz

And when the chief shepherd is manifested, you will obtain the unfading crown of glory.

I was reading the book of Judges and that sense of the last line of, in those days there was no king in Israel and everyone did what was right in their own eyes.

Likewise, you that are younger, be subject to the elders.

Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another.

For God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

In that sense of man, the lawlessness kind of a sense or people who are striving after the Lord but then unfaithful to him and this how God continued to work with their brokenness was one of the things that just, again, it kept reminding me as a touch point, it kept shaping how I was,

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that in due time he may exalt you.

Cast all your anxieties on him, for he cares about you.

Be sober, be watchful.

Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

living through like, I don't know, pandemic times and living through just trying to be with others in the midst of their brokenness and their crises of their lives.

Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experience of suffering is required of your brotherhood throughout the world.

And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ will himself restore, establish, and strengthen you.

And it just, again, it wasn't just like I got a nugget of, here's a nugget of truth or here's a little kernel of something good.

It was more like, again, my lens or the way I was looking at the world and really interpreting

To him be the dominion forever and ever.

Amen.

what i was going through living through was being shaped it was being like fashioned and so that was a that was a really big conviction of like i think we need to do this from a real solidly catholic perspective and i don't think of a more powerful perspective than to go through it via the great adventure bible timeline

Final greeting and benediction.

By Silvanus, a faithful brother as I regard him, I have written briefly to you, exhorting and declaring that this is the true grace of God.