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Fr. Kris Schmidt Homilies — 407 episodes

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1

Real Life After Death | Easter 2026

2

The Infinite in the Finite | Good Friday 2026

3

Priesthood of Deserters and Flat Bread | Holy Thursday 2026

4

Burdens | Palm Sunday 2026

5

Lenten Retreat 2026 - Part 3

6

Lenten Retreat 2026 - Part 2

7

Salvation History, Part 5 | Catechesis

8

We Are Children Of Light

9

Salvation History, Part 4 | Catechesis

10

Our Wounds

11

Salvation History, Part 3 | Catechesis

12

Lenten Retreat 2026

13

Having the Freedom to Love

14

Salvation History, Part 2 | Catechesis

15

When Jesus Gets Mad

16

Salvation History, Part 1 | Catechesis

17

Baptism: Gateway to the Christian Life

18

Making Sense of Our Desires | Epiphany 2026

19

The Importance of Pondering | Mary, Mother of God

20

The Descent Into Light | Christmas Movies, Turning Points, and Transformation

21

What Helps Us Wait

22

Misguided, Misplaced, and Failed Expectations

23

Why We Build Churches

24

Momento Mori

25

What Should Our Relationship With God Look Like?

26

Lord, Give Me One More

27

Sins of Omission

28

Seeing Our Weakness | Triumph of the Holy Cross

29

God Knows Better

30

Pride Is A Problem

31

Who Do You Let Discipline You?

32

To Be Human Is To Have Faith

33

Everything Is Vanity?

34

Asking the Right Questions In Prayer

35

A Song and a Word: How to Live the Christian Life

36

Truth, Mystery, Trinity

37

Relying On A Power Greater Than Myself | Pentecost

38

Love Coexists With Imperfection | Family

39

Love Coexists With Imperfection | Marriage

40

Resenting Jesus' Absence

41

Mental Prayer | Catechesis

42

A Love Of Self Sacrifice

43

Walking With Mary | Catechesis

44

Peter's Struggle

45

The Fullness of Revelation | Easter Sunday

46

Jesus, Crucified | Good Friday

47

Washing of the Feet Explained | Maundy Thursday

48

The Gift of Repentance

49

Who Do I Pray To In the Trinity? | Catechesis

50

Who Are We Turning Back To? | On The Prodigal Son

51

How To Go To Adoration | Catechesis

52

How Do You Know You're Going the Wrong Way?

53

Memorized Prayer | Catechesis

54

Walk With Me Down the Road of Temptation

55

Prayer is a Mosaic | Catechesis

56

A Good Death

57

What's Your Plan For Prayer? | Catechesis

58

Love Your Enemy

59

Children In Prayer | Catechesis

60

The Right And Wrong Way To Be In Relationship With God

61

Desperate For The Word

62

What Makes Reconciliation Possible

63

Scripture Begins With A Marriage

64

How Far Would You Go To Adore The Lord? | Epiphany

65

Beginning With Mary | Solemnity Of Mary, Mother Of God

66

We Don't Choose Our Family. That's a Good Thing | The Holy Family

67

Don't Turn Faith Into A Fairy Tale | Advent, 4th Sunday

68

We're Bad At Waiting | Advent, 2nd Sunday

69

It Is Good That We Are Here | Advent, 1st Sunday

70

We Live On Hope, Not Optimism

71

God's Love Is INTENSE

72

Why Do We Have Priests?

73

You Have Found Your Cross | On Marriage

74

Half Measures Aren't Good Enough

75

Humility and Magnanimity

76

How Do You Respond to Poverty?

77

We Live In Chaos

78

What Are You Pursuing?

79

The Tension Between Body & Soul

80

Why God Disciplines Us

81

What Does It Mean to Be Alive? | Bread of Life Discourse

82

What is the Christian Message We Carry?

83

God Is Sovereign Over Every Evil

84

A Reflection On Rest

85

What Can Tear Down A Christian

86

Vocation Begins with a Relationship, Not a Task | Vocations Rally 2024

87

Why The Eucharist Is Our Centre

88

3 Ways To Understand The Trinity

89

What Is Most True

90

We Have No Idea What God's Love Is

91

Money and the Christian Community

92

The Marks of a Christian Community

93

In Our Own Despair, Comes Wisdom | Good Friday 2024

94

The Way We Remember | Holy Thursday 2024

95

The Faith is Total Emersion

96

Jesus Is The Answer

97

The Awful Grace Of God | Easter 2024

98

Faithfulness

99

Our Capacity To Recieve Love

100

A Crisis Of Hope

101

What Do We Do With Anxiety?

102

What is a Christian?

103

Pull Away the Veil | Epiphany 2024

104

We Have Forgotten Our Mother | Mary, Mother of God Homily 2024

105

Love Coexists With Imperfection | Holy Family Homily 2023

106

Choices Have Consequences | Christmas Homily 2023

107

Why is John the Baptist a Credible Witness?

108

The Hills and Valley's of My Own Making

109

This Jesus Guy

110

Who Has Authority Over You?

111

Love Is Not A Given

112

Freedom, Love, Sacrifice

113

Christian Community Is Crucial

114

Choose Your Own Adventure Homily

115

Correcting a Brother or Sister

116

Ave Maria

117

22 Sunday Communion Antiphon

118

Get Behind Me Satan

119

Religious Differences and How Jesus Changes Everything

120

God's Grace Through What Sucks the Most

121

Changing Perspectives and the Problem of Evil

122

God's Creation: Worship, Control, and Thankfulness

123

Distracted At Mass

124

The Virtue of Hospitality

125

Fear Has Nothing on Grace

126

The Eucharist and Becoming De-Natured

127

God Is The Fire

128

The Gifts of The Holy Spirit That Are Most Needed Today

129

Called To Serve

130

Why Can't Women Be Priests? | Catechesis

131

How I Heard the Call to the Priesthood

132

Eucharistic Sacrifice | Catechesis

133

The Drama of Suffering

134

Source & Summit | Catechesis

135

Your First Holy Communion

136

Catholic Cannibalism | Catechesis

137

Dear Christian Soul | Easter Sunday

138

The Cross: What Do You See? | Good Friday

139

Every Meal Requires A Sacrifice | Maundy Thursday

140

Persevere | Passion Sunday

141

This is What's Wrong With a Celebration of Life

142

Changes in the Mass | Catechesis

143

The Woman at the Well

144

Confession & Communion | Catechesis

145

How Does Jesus Help Us Through Temptation?

146

Examination | Catechesis

147

The Nature Of Temptation

148

Sin Has Consequences | Catechesis

149

Lent Is Hard

150

Why Confess? | Catechesis

151

Justified Anger

152

Who Can Baptize? | Catechesis

153

Mass Chants

154

Essential to the World

155

Magic Sacraments | Catechesis

156

Sacred Chrism | Catechesis

157

Thou Shalt Not

158

Is Baptism Necessary? | Catechesis

159

What is a Sacrament? | Catechesis

160

God's Search For Man

161

What is Mary Pondering? | Mary, Mother of God

162

A Simple Handshake | The Nativity of Our Lord

163

When God Calls

164

Love Requires Disruption

165

Stranger or Friend?

166

Why Ritual? | Catechesis

167

The Sky is Falling

168

What is Sacred Music? | Catechesis

169

Freedom of Heart

170

The Relationship Between Catholic Schools and Parishes | Catholic Education Sunday 2022

171

Sin

172

Prayer Postures

173

Prodding a Wound

174

What Difference Does Faith Make in Your Life?

175

Children At Mass

176

The State of the Church

177

The Role of the Priest

178

Does Your Faith Inspire?

179

Narcissistic Faith

180

Why Isn't Everyone Christian?

181

Is Faith Essential to Being Human?

182

Keep Your Head Up

183

Family Reunion

184

Instructions for Disciples

185

What Does Your Catholic Faith Allow You to Do?

186

Broken Bread | Catechesis

187

Sanctifying Time | Catechesis

188

What is THIS Mass All About? | Catechesis

189

Father Son Holy Spirit

190

Why Do I Love My Children?

191

Altar, Ambo, Chair | Catechesis

192

Why Did Jesus Ascend?

193

Fear & Denial

194

Doubt is Not a Threat

195

Why Did Jesus Have to Rise? | Easter Triduum

196

Why Did Jesus Have to Die? | Easter Triduum

197

Humility is Strength | Easter Triduum

198

Lead By Emotions

199

Faith and Daily Life | Parish Mission 2022

200

Memory & Forgiveness

201

Songs Of The Angels | Catechesis

202

My Father's House

203

The Word of God | Catechesis

204

Glory Found in Suffering

205

Rapid Fire Questions | Catechesis

206

Tempted Within Our Grasp

207

Making Judgements

208

Wasteful Beauty | Catechesis

209

Woe to You

210

Right Rite | Catechesis

211

How Do You Look at Your Failures?

212

Truth, Love, Remedy.

213

Secrets with God | Catechesis

214

Catholic Gymnastics, Part II | Catechesis

215

The Verb

216

Catholic Gymnastics, Part I | Catechesis

217

The Day You Were Baptized

218

Manifest

219

Motherhood

220

The Christian Invitation (Christmas Homily 2021)

221

The Vestment (Advent Catechesis, Ep. 4)

222

Will You Pray for Me? (Advent Catechesis, Ep. 3)

223

Are We There Yet?

224

An Act of Faith

225

How to Receive Holy Communion (Advent Catechesis, Ep.2)

226

What is the Mass? (Advent Catechesis Ep.1)

227

In Front of Beauty

228

Hope

229

A Holy Fear of Death

230

All Hallows

231

A True Disciple

232

A Good Person?

233

Stop Trying to Break Free

234

Judas & Peter

235

The Strength of a Culture

236

Who Do You Say that I Am?

237

Be Opened

238

What Makes the Christian Life Different?

239

Food for the Journey

240

Why Bread Doesn't Grow On Trees

241

Mission Territory

242

Perfect In Weakness

243

Our Arrogance

244

Residential Schools

245

The Vacuum of Technology

246

The Role of Religion

247

Love, Bigger Than Me

248

Unity & Communion

249

Your Faith is Not Your Own

250

Receiving God's Mercy

251

Lord, I Forget Why I Love You

252

The Feast Of The Perfect

253

In Peter's Shoes

254

God Uses Your Suffering

255

Let God Recreate You

256

Talking About Sin

257

A Thousand No's

258

Child Sacrifice & Grace

259

From the Inside Out

260

The Source of Evil

261

Directly From the Source

262

Make Scripture Personal

263

Come & See

264

Water is Life

265

How Catholics Worship

266

Pondering Motherhood

267

This Is Family Life

268

God Speaks

269

Uncomplicated

270

Choose Joy

271

God Our Potter

272

How Do We Wait?

273

A Soul's Letter To Jesus

274

We Like Slavery

275

Who Goes to Heaven?

276

Why We Pray to the Saints

277

Comfortable

278

Postponed Weddings

279

Keeping Up Appearances

280

The Kingdom of God Will Be Taken From You

281

Anger

282

Recipe for Reconciliation

283

Suffering Death Resurrection

284

Papists

285

Loving What is Different

286

I'm Tired

287

Do You Understand?

288

Everything is Gift

289

What Makes a Good Relationship?

290

Momento Mori

291

You Need to be Broken

292

Faith & Reason

293

How To Know The Holy Spirit Is Present In Your Life

294

Already Not Yet

295

Enfleshed Souls

296

Distractions

297

Facing Judgment

298

Under Control

299

Why Have You Forsaken Me?

300

Lead Kindly Light

301

The Christian Approach to Crisis

302

The Death of Faith

303

Being Fully Human

304

What Do You Offer God?

305

Do We Know Our Story?

306

Testify

307

A Holy Virus

308

Question God

309

Chaos & Contraception

310

When Two Worlds Collide

311

The Problem with Nostalgia

312

People Are Awful

313

We Hate Change

314

Silence, Poverty, Family

315

How to Live Through Evil

316

A Soldier's Sacrifice

317

What is Catholic Education?

318

Pray Like the Tax Collector

319

Children at Mass

320

Going Backwards

321

Breaking Out of Maintenance Mode

322

The Most Confusing Parable

323

The Right to Demand Justice

324

Can We Ever Be Wise?

325

Accepting Punishment

326

Un-Domesticated

327

1 Good Refugee

328

Finding Rest

329

Freely Enslaved

330

Sacred & Profane

331

A Detailed Description of Heaven

332

Troubled Hearts

333

The Golden Rule is Not Enough

334

By His Reputation

335

What is Jesus Selling?

336

I Believe

337

Exult

338

Spectators

339

Hand-Me-Down

340

Judas

341

Clever God

342

Condescension

343

God is Scary

344

Satan's Tactics

345

How to Examine Your Conscience

346

What Do I Confess?

347

Nature & Grace

348

Are You Tied Up?

349

Mawwiage

350

Magnetized

351

A Better Resolution

352

Obedient to the Gift

353

Silence

354

Incarnate

355

Are You Prepared?

356

Bring it to Completion

357

Chris...NOT YET

358

Who Is Truth?

359

Deliver Us From Evil

360

Widows & Soldiers

361

All In

362

Bored at Mass

363

The G.O.A.T.

364

Part Of Me

365

Moth Eaten Faith

366

Getting Along

367

Resistance Training

368

Not Like Animals

369

Words and The Word

370

Foster Father

371

Goodbyes

372

Without Rest

373

Am I Weak Enough?

374

Gimme Gimme Never Gets

375

What's in a Name?

376

American Nightmare

377

To Infinity And Beyond

378

We Are Not Equals

379

Trini-what?!

380

Caritas

381

Anchored

382

Love Feels Like Death

383

Hypocrites

384

We Will See Him As He Is

385

Ignorance Is Not Bliss

386

Hell Where Is Your Victory?

387

Simple

388

EXULTET

389

Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Worship

390

Vital Snow

391

Wounded Healer

392

Don't Rebuild Your Own Temple

393

Crescamus In Christum

394

Make Me Clean

395

Plug-In

396

You Belong To Him

397

Look Up!

398

Proclamation Of The Moveable Feasts

399

Gestation, Genes, and Gift

400

Bear with One Another

401

The Imperfect Holy Family

402

#blessed?

403

Holdfast

404

Lost in Translation

405

Why Wait?

406

Crown the Shepherd

407

God-Wise