Fr. Mike Schmitz

I'm not good at math.

I like that one too, because you know.

Let's read the Bible.

Care and care.

Verse eight, be sober, be watchful.

I had asked my parents for Christmas for a Bible of my own, like an adult Bible.

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

I remember specifically saying, can I have an adult Bible, like a big kid's Bible?

And it was this New American Bible that has been, I've duct taped it.

Resist him firm in your faith.

This is so incredibly important for every one of us to acknowledge, to understand and to engage and to accept is that yes, our battle, once again, not with principalities and powers, but with the evil one.

This is like the, I think the fourth of duct taped together.

But just like, even I look back through this and I think like, here are not just my markings, like just my notes inside the Bible that I'll go back to when I was in high school.

or sorry, I battle is with principalities and powers with the evil one.

And we have to be sober.

And reading is particularly, you mentioned when it came to having that word of hope that you know is inside.

We have to be alert.

We have to resist him firm in our faith, but also knowing you're not alone.

St.

Peter says, knowing that the same experience of suffering is required of your brotherhood throughout the whole world.