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Fr. Kris Schmidt Homilies — 417 episodes
A Homily on the Weather
Death in the Family
Deadly Distractions and Our Choices
Hard Questions and Answers Too Deep For Words
A Heavy and Difficult Yolk
Be Not Afraid, Really?
The Bible In Daily Life | Catechesis
A Holy Nation: Politics, Community, and a Priestly Kingdom
What You Need Before You Want It | Corpus Christi
Tools & Knowledge
Real Life After Death | Easter 2026
The Infinite in the Finite | Good Friday 2026
Priesthood of Deserters and Flat Bread | Holy Thursday 2026
Burdens | Palm Sunday 2026
Lenten Retreat 2026 - Part 3
Lenten Retreat 2026 - Part 2
Salvation History, Part 5 | Catechesis
We Are Children Of Light
Salvation History, Part 4 | Catechesis
Our Wounds
Salvation History, Part 3 | Catechesis
Lenten Retreat 2026
Having the Freedom to Love
Salvation History, Part 2 | Catechesis
When Jesus Gets Mad
Salvation History, Part 1 | Catechesis
Baptism: Gateway to the Christian Life
Making Sense of Our Desires | Epiphany 2026
The Importance of Pondering | Mary, Mother of God
The Descent Into Light | Christmas Movies, Turning Points, and Transformation
What Helps Us Wait
Misguided, Misplaced, and Failed Expectations
Why We Build Churches
Momento Mori
What Should Our Relationship With God Look Like?
Lord, Give Me One More
Sins of Omission
Seeing Our Weakness | Triumph of the Holy Cross
God Knows Better
Pride Is A Problem
Who Do You Let Discipline You?
To Be Human Is To Have Faith
Everything Is Vanity?
Asking the Right Questions In Prayer
A Song and a Word: How to Live the Christian Life
Truth, Mystery, Trinity
Relying On A Power Greater Than Myself | Pentecost
Love Coexists With Imperfection | Family
Love Coexists With Imperfection | Marriage
Resenting Jesus' Absence
Mental Prayer | Catechesis
A Love Of Self Sacrifice
Walking With Mary | Catechesis
Peter's Struggle
The Fullness of Revelation | Easter Sunday
Jesus, Crucified | Good Friday
Washing of the Feet Explained | Maundy Thursday
The Gift of Repentance
Who Do I Pray To In the Trinity? | Catechesis
Who Are We Turning Back To? | On The Prodigal Son
How To Go To Adoration | Catechesis
How Do You Know You're Going the Wrong Way?
Memorized Prayer | Catechesis
Walk With Me Down the Road of Temptation
Prayer is a Mosaic | Catechesis
A Good Death
What's Your Plan For Prayer? | Catechesis
Love Your Enemy
Children In Prayer | Catechesis
The Right And Wrong Way To Be In Relationship With God
Desperate For The Word
What Makes Reconciliation Possible
Scripture Begins With A Marriage
How Far Would You Go To Adore The Lord? | Epiphany
Beginning With Mary | Solemnity Of Mary, Mother Of God
We Don't Choose Our Family. That's a Good Thing | The Holy Family
Don't Turn Faith Into A Fairy Tale | Advent, 4th Sunday
We're Bad At Waiting | Advent, 2nd Sunday
It Is Good That We Are Here | Advent, 1st Sunday
We Live On Hope, Not Optimism
God's Love Is INTENSE
Why Do We Have Priests?
You Have Found Your Cross | On Marriage
Half Measures Aren't Good Enough
Humility and Magnanimity
How Do You Respond to Poverty?
We Live In Chaos
What Are You Pursuing?
The Tension Between Body & Soul
Why God Disciplines Us
What Does It Mean to Be Alive? | Bread of Life Discourse
What is the Christian Message We Carry?
God Is Sovereign Over Every Evil
A Reflection On Rest
What Can Tear Down A Christian
Vocation Begins with a Relationship, Not a Task | Vocations Rally 2024
Why The Eucharist Is Our Centre
3 Ways To Understand The Trinity
What Is Most True
We Have No Idea What God's Love Is
Money and the Christian Community
The Marks of a Christian Community
In Our Own Despair, Comes Wisdom | Good Friday 2024
The Way We Remember | Holy Thursday 2024
The Faith is Total Emersion
Jesus Is The Answer
The Awful Grace Of God | Easter 2024
Faithfulness
Our Capacity To Recieve Love
A Crisis Of Hope
What Do We Do With Anxiety?
What is a Christian?
Pull Away the Veil | Epiphany 2024
We Have Forgotten Our Mother | Mary, Mother of God Homily 2024
Love Coexists With Imperfection | Holy Family Homily 2023
Choices Have Consequences | Christmas Homily 2023
Why is John the Baptist a Credible Witness?
The Hills and Valley's of My Own Making
This Jesus Guy
Who Has Authority Over You?
Love Is Not A Given
Freedom, Love, Sacrifice
Christian Community Is Crucial
Choose Your Own Adventure Homily
Correcting a Brother or Sister
Ave Maria
22 Sunday Communion Antiphon
Get Behind Me Satan
Religious Differences and How Jesus Changes Everything
God's Grace Through What Sucks the Most
Changing Perspectives and the Problem of Evil
God's Creation: Worship, Control, and Thankfulness
Distracted At Mass
The Virtue of Hospitality
Fear Has Nothing on Grace
The Eucharist and Becoming De-Natured
God Is The Fire
The Gifts of The Holy Spirit That Are Most Needed Today
Called To Serve
Why Can't Women Be Priests? | Catechesis
How I Heard the Call to the Priesthood
Eucharistic Sacrifice | Catechesis
The Drama of Suffering
Source & Summit | Catechesis
Your First Holy Communion
Catholic Cannibalism | Catechesis
Dear Christian Soul | Easter Sunday
The Cross: What Do You See? | Good Friday
Every Meal Requires A Sacrifice | Maundy Thursday
Persevere | Passion Sunday
This is What's Wrong With a Celebration of Life
Changes in the Mass | Catechesis
The Woman at the Well
Confession & Communion | Catechesis
How Does Jesus Help Us Through Temptation?
Examination | Catechesis
The Nature Of Temptation
Sin Has Consequences | Catechesis
Lent Is Hard
Why Confess? | Catechesis
Justified Anger
Who Can Baptize? | Catechesis
Mass Chants
Essential to the World
Magic Sacraments | Catechesis
Sacred Chrism | Catechesis
Thou Shalt Not
Is Baptism Necessary? | Catechesis
What is a Sacrament? | Catechesis
God's Search For Man
What is Mary Pondering? | Mary, Mother of God
A Simple Handshake | The Nativity of Our Lord
When God Calls
Love Requires Disruption
Stranger or Friend?
Why Ritual? | Catechesis
The Sky is Falling
What is Sacred Music? | Catechesis
Freedom of Heart
The Relationship Between Catholic Schools and Parishes | Catholic Education Sunday 2022
Sin
Prayer Postures
Prodding a Wound
What Difference Does Faith Make in Your Life?
Children At Mass
The State of the Church
The Role of the Priest
Does Your Faith Inspire?
Narcissistic Faith
Why Isn't Everyone Christian?
Is Faith Essential to Being Human?
Keep Your Head Up
Family Reunion
Instructions for Disciples
What Does Your Catholic Faith Allow You to Do?
Broken Bread | Catechesis
Sanctifying Time | Catechesis
What is THIS Mass All About? | Catechesis
Father Son Holy Spirit
Why Do I Love My Children?
Altar, Ambo, Chair | Catechesis
Why Did Jesus Ascend?
Fear & Denial
Doubt is Not a Threat
Why Did Jesus Have to Rise? | Easter Triduum
Why Did Jesus Have to Die? | Easter Triduum
Humility is Strength | Easter Triduum
Lead By Emotions
Faith and Daily Life | Parish Mission 2022
Memory & Forgiveness
Songs Of The Angels | Catechesis
My Father's House
The Word of God | Catechesis
Glory Found in Suffering
Rapid Fire Questions | Catechesis
Tempted Within Our Grasp
Making Judgements
Wasteful Beauty | Catechesis
Woe to You
Right Rite | Catechesis
How Do You Look at Your Failures?
Truth, Love, Remedy.
Secrets with God | Catechesis
Catholic Gymnastics, Part II | Catechesis
The Verb
Catholic Gymnastics, Part I | Catechesis
The Day You Were Baptized
Manifest
Motherhood
The Christian Invitation (Christmas Homily 2021)
The Vestment (Advent Catechesis, Ep. 4)
Will You Pray for Me? (Advent Catechesis, Ep. 3)
Are We There Yet?
An Act of Faith
How to Receive Holy Communion (Advent Catechesis, Ep.2)
What is the Mass? (Advent Catechesis Ep.1)
In Front of Beauty
Hope
A Holy Fear of Death
All Hallows
A True Disciple
A Good Person?
Stop Trying to Break Free
Judas & Peter
The Strength of a Culture
Who Do You Say that I Am?
Be Opened
What Makes the Christian Life Different?
Food for the Journey
Why Bread Doesn't Grow On Trees
Mission Territory
Perfect In Weakness
Our Arrogance
Residential Schools
The Vacuum of Technology
The Role of Religion
Love, Bigger Than Me
Unity & Communion
Your Faith is Not Your Own
Receiving God's Mercy
Lord, I Forget Why I Love You
The Feast Of The Perfect
In Peter's Shoes
God Uses Your Suffering
Let God Recreate You
Talking About Sin
A Thousand No's
Child Sacrifice & Grace
From the Inside Out
The Source of Evil
Directly From the Source
Make Scripture Personal
Come & See
Water is Life
How Catholics Worship
Pondering Motherhood
This Is Family Life
God Speaks
Uncomplicated
Choose Joy
God Our Potter
How Do We Wait?
A Soul's Letter To Jesus
We Like Slavery
Who Goes to Heaven?
Why We Pray to the Saints
Comfortable
Postponed Weddings
Keeping Up Appearances
The Kingdom of God Will Be Taken From You
Anger
Recipe for Reconciliation
Suffering Death Resurrection
Papists
Loving What is Different
I'm Tired
Do You Understand?
Everything is Gift
What Makes a Good Relationship?
Momento Mori
You Need to be Broken
Faith & Reason
How To Know The Holy Spirit Is Present In Your Life
Already Not Yet
Enfleshed Souls
Distractions
Facing Judgment
Under Control
Why Have You Forsaken Me?
Lead Kindly Light
The Christian Approach to Crisis
The Death of Faith
Being Fully Human
What Do You Offer God?
Do We Know Our Story?
Testify
A Holy Virus
Question God
Chaos & Contraception
When Two Worlds Collide
The Problem with Nostalgia
People Are Awful
We Hate Change
Silence, Poverty, Family
How to Live Through Evil
A Soldier's Sacrifice
What is Catholic Education?
Pray Like the Tax Collector
Children at Mass
Going Backwards
Breaking Out of Maintenance Mode
The Most Confusing Parable
The Right to Demand Justice
Can We Ever Be Wise?
Accepting Punishment
Un-Domesticated
1 Good Refugee
Finding Rest
Freely Enslaved
Sacred & Profane
A Detailed Description of Heaven
Troubled Hearts
The Golden Rule is Not Enough
By His Reputation
What is Jesus Selling?
I Believe
Exult
Spectators
Hand-Me-Down
Judas
Clever God
Condescension
God is Scary
Satan's Tactics
How to Examine Your Conscience
What Do I Confess?
Nature & Grace
Are You Tied Up?
Mawwiage
Magnetized
A Better Resolution
Obedient to the Gift
Silence
Incarnate
Are You Prepared?
Bring it to Completion
Chris...NOT YET
Who Is Truth?
Deliver Us From Evil
Widows & Soldiers
All In
Bored at Mass
The G.O.A.T.
Part Of Me
Moth Eaten Faith
Getting Along
Resistance Training
Not Like Animals
Words and The Word
Foster Father
Goodbyes
Without Rest
Am I Weak Enough?
Gimme Gimme Never Gets
What's in a Name?
American Nightmare
To Infinity And Beyond
We Are Not Equals
Trini-what?!
Caritas
Anchored
Love Feels Like Death
Hypocrites
We Will See Him As He Is
Ignorance Is Not Bliss
Hell Where Is Your Victory?
Simple
EXULTET
Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Worship
Vital Snow
Wounded Healer
Don't Rebuild Your Own Temple
Crescamus In Christum
Make Me Clean
Plug-In
You Belong To Him
Look Up!
Proclamation Of The Moveable Feasts
Gestation, Genes, and Gift
Bear with One Another
The Imperfect Holy Family
#blessed?
Holdfast
Lost in Translation
Why Wait?
Crown the Shepherd
God-Wise