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Fr. Kris Schmidt Homilies — 409 episodes

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What You Need Before You Want It | Corpus Christi

2

Tools & Knowledge

3

Real Life After Death | Easter 2026

4

The Infinite in the Finite | Good Friday 2026

5

Priesthood of Deserters and Flat Bread | Holy Thursday 2026

6

Burdens | Palm Sunday 2026

7

Lenten Retreat 2026 - Part 3

8

Lenten Retreat 2026 - Part 2

9

Salvation History, Part 5 | Catechesis

10

We Are Children Of Light

11

Salvation History, Part 4 | Catechesis

12

Our Wounds

13

Salvation History, Part 3 | Catechesis

14

Lenten Retreat 2026

15

Having the Freedom to Love

16

Salvation History, Part 2 | Catechesis

17

When Jesus Gets Mad

18

Salvation History, Part 1 | Catechesis

19

Baptism: Gateway to the Christian Life

20

Making Sense of Our Desires | Epiphany 2026

21

The Importance of Pondering | Mary, Mother of God

22

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

23

What Helps Us Wait

24

Misguided, Misplaced, and Failed Expectations

25

Why We Build Churches

26

Momento Mori

27

What Should Our Relationship With God Look Like?

28

Lord, Give Me One More

29

Sins of Omission

30

Seeing Our Weakness | Triumph of the Holy Cross

31

God Knows Better

32

Pride Is A Problem

33

Who Do You Let Discipline You?

34

To Be Human Is To Have Faith

35

Everything Is Vanity?

36

Asking the Right Questions In Prayer

37

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

38

Truth, Mystery, Trinity

39

Relying On A Power Greater Than Myself | Pentecost

40

Love Coexists With Imperfection | Family

41

Love Coexists With Imperfection | Marriage

42

Resenting Jesus' Absence

43

Mental Prayer | Catechesis

44

A Love Of Self Sacrifice

45

Walking With Mary | Catechesis

46

Peter's Struggle

47

The Fullness of Revelation | Easter Sunday

48

Jesus, Crucified | Good Friday

49

Washing of the Feet Explained | Maundy Thursday

50

The Gift of Repentance

51

Who Do I Pray To In the Trinity? | Catechesis

52

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

53

How To Go To Adoration | Catechesis

54

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

55

Memorized Prayer | Catechesis

56

Walk With Me Down the Road of Temptation

57

Prayer is a Mosaic | Catechesis

58

A Good Death

59

What's Your Plan For Prayer? | Catechesis

60

Love Your Enemy

61

Children In Prayer | Catechesis

62

The Right And Wrong Way To Be In Relationship With God

63

Desperate For The Word

64

What Makes Reconciliation Possible

65

Scripture Begins With A Marriage

66

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

67

Beginning With Mary | Solemnity Of Mary, Mother Of God

68

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

69

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

70

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

71

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

72

We Live On Hope, Not Optimism

73

God's Love Is INTENSE

74

Why Do We Have Priests?

75

You Have Found Your Cross | On Marriage

76

Half Measures Aren't Good Enough

77

Humility and Magnanimity

78

How Do You Respond to Poverty?

79

We Live In Chaos

80

What Are You Pursuing?

81

The Tension Between Body & Soul

82

Why God Disciplines Us

83

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

84

What is the Christian Message We Carry?

85

God Is Sovereign Over Every Evil

86

A Reflection On Rest

87

What Can Tear Down A Christian

88

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

89

Why The Eucharist Is Our Centre

90

3 Ways To Understand The Trinity

91

What Is Most True

92

We Have No Idea What God's Love Is

93

Money and the Christian Community

94

The Marks of a Christian Community

95

In Our Own Despair, Comes Wisdom | Good Friday 2024

96

The Way We Remember | Holy Thursday 2024

97

The Faith is Total Emersion

98

Jesus Is The Answer

99

The Awful Grace Of God | Easter 2024

100

Faithfulness

101

Our Capacity To Recieve Love

102

A Crisis Of Hope

103

What Do We Do With Anxiety?

104

What is a Christian?

105

Pull Away the Veil | Epiphany 2024

106

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

107

Love Coexists With Imperfection | Holy Family Homily 2023

108

Choices Have Consequences | Christmas Homily 2023

109

Why is John the Baptist a Credible Witness?

110

The Hills and Valley's of My Own Making

111

This Jesus Guy

112

Who Has Authority Over You?

113

Love Is Not A Given

114

Freedom, Love, Sacrifice

115

Christian Community Is Crucial

116

Choose Your Own Adventure Homily

117

Correcting a Brother or Sister

118

Ave Maria

119

22 Sunday Communion Antiphon

120

Get Behind Me Satan

121

Religious Differences and How Jesus Changes Everything

122

God's Grace Through What Sucks the Most

123

Changing Perspectives and the Problem of Evil

124

God's Creation: Worship, Control, and Thankfulness

125

Distracted At Mass

126

The Virtue of Hospitality

127

Fear Has Nothing on Grace

128

The Eucharist and Becoming De-Natured

129

God Is The Fire

130

The Gifts of The Holy Spirit That Are Most Needed Today

131

Called To Serve

132

Why Can't Women Be Priests? | Catechesis

133

How I Heard the Call to the Priesthood

134

Eucharistic Sacrifice | Catechesis

135

The Drama of Suffering

136

Source & Summit | Catechesis

137

Your First Holy Communion

138

Catholic Cannibalism | Catechesis

139

Dear Christian Soul | Easter Sunday

140

The Cross: What Do You See? | Good Friday

141

Every Meal Requires A Sacrifice | Maundy Thursday

142

Persevere | Passion Sunday

143

This is What's Wrong With a Celebration of Life

144

Changes in the Mass | Catechesis

145

The Woman at the Well

146

Confession & Communion | Catechesis

147

How Does Jesus Help Us Through Temptation?

148

Examination | Catechesis

149

The Nature Of Temptation

150

Sin Has Consequences | Catechesis

151

Lent Is Hard

152

Why Confess? | Catechesis

153

Justified Anger

154

Who Can Baptize? | Catechesis

155

Mass Chants

156

Essential to the World

157

Magic Sacraments | Catechesis

158

Sacred Chrism | Catechesis

159

Thou Shalt Not

160

Is Baptism Necessary? | Catechesis

161

What is a Sacrament? | Catechesis

162

God's Search For Man

163

What is Mary Pondering? | Mary, Mother of God

164

A Simple Handshake | The Nativity of Our Lord

165

When God Calls

166

Love Requires Disruption

167

Stranger or Friend?

168

Why Ritual? | Catechesis

169

The Sky is Falling

170

What is Sacred Music? | Catechesis

171

Freedom of Heart

172

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

173

Sin

174

Prayer Postures

175

Prodding a Wound

176

What Difference Does Faith Make in Your Life?

177

Children At Mass

178

The State of the Church

179

The Role of the Priest

180

Does Your Faith Inspire?

181

Narcissistic Faith

182

Why Isn't Everyone Christian?

183

Is Faith Essential to Being Human?

184

Keep Your Head Up

185

Family Reunion

186

Instructions for Disciples

187

What Does Your Catholic Faith Allow You to Do?

188

Broken Bread | Catechesis

189

Sanctifying Time | Catechesis

190

What is THIS Mass All About? | Catechesis

191

Father Son Holy Spirit

192

Why Do I Love My Children?

193

Altar, Ambo, Chair | Catechesis

194

Why Did Jesus Ascend?

195

Fear & Denial

196

Doubt is Not a Threat

197

Why Did Jesus Have to Rise? | Easter Triduum

198

Why Did Jesus Have to Die? | Easter Triduum

199

Humility is Strength | Easter Triduum

200

Lead By Emotions

201

Faith and Daily Life | Parish Mission 2022

202

Memory & Forgiveness

203

Songs Of The Angels | Catechesis

204

My Father's House

205

The Word of God | Catechesis

206

Glory Found in Suffering

207

Rapid Fire Questions | Catechesis

208

Tempted Within Our Grasp

209

Making Judgements

210

Wasteful Beauty | Catechesis

211

Woe to You

212

Right Rite | Catechesis

213

How Do You Look at Your Failures?

214

Truth, Love, Remedy.

215

Secrets with God | Catechesis

216

Catholic Gymnastics, Part II | Catechesis

217

The Verb

218

Catholic Gymnastics, Part I | Catechesis

219

The Day You Were Baptized

220

Manifest

221

Motherhood

222

The Christian Invitation (Christmas Homily 2021)

223

The Vestment (Advent Catechesis, Ep. 4)

224

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

225

Are We There Yet?

226

An Act of Faith

227

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

228

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

229

In Front of Beauty

230

Hope

231

A Holy Fear of Death

232

All Hallows

233

A True Disciple

234

A Good Person?

235

Stop Trying to Break Free

236

Judas & Peter

237

The Strength of a Culture

238

Who Do You Say that I Am?

239

Be Opened

240

What Makes the Christian Life Different?

241

Food for the Journey

242

Why Bread Doesn't Grow On Trees

243

Mission Territory

244

Perfect In Weakness

245

Our Arrogance

246

Residential Schools

247

The Vacuum of Technology

248

The Role of Religion

249

Love, Bigger Than Me

250

Unity & Communion

251

Your Faith is Not Your Own

252

Receiving God's Mercy

253

Lord, I Forget Why I Love You

254

The Feast Of The Perfect

255

In Peter's Shoes

256

God Uses Your Suffering

257

Let God Recreate You

258

Talking About Sin

259

A Thousand No's

260

Child Sacrifice & Grace

261

From the Inside Out

262

The Source of Evil

263

Directly From the Source

264

Make Scripture Personal

265

Come & See

266

Water is Life

267

How Catholics Worship

268

Pondering Motherhood

269

This Is Family Life

270

God Speaks

271

Uncomplicated

272

Choose Joy

273

God Our Potter

274

How Do We Wait?

275

A Soul's Letter To Jesus

276

We Like Slavery

277

Who Goes to Heaven?

278

Why We Pray to the Saints

279

Comfortable

280

Postponed Weddings

281

Keeping Up Appearances

282

The Kingdom of God Will Be Taken From You

283

Anger

284

Recipe for Reconciliation

285

Suffering Death Resurrection

286

Papists

287

Loving What is Different

288

I'm Tired

289

Do You Understand?

290

Everything is Gift

291

What Makes a Good Relationship?

292

Momento Mori

293

You Need to be Broken

294

Faith & Reason

295

How To Know The Holy Spirit Is Present In Your Life

296

Already Not Yet

297

Enfleshed Souls

298

Distractions

299

Facing Judgment

300

Under Control

301

Why Have You Forsaken Me?

302

Lead Kindly Light

303

The Christian Approach to Crisis

304

The Death of Faith

305

Being Fully Human

306

What Do You Offer God?

307

Do We Know Our Story?

308

Testify

309

A Holy Virus

310

Question God

311

Chaos & Contraception

312

When Two Worlds Collide

313

The Problem with Nostalgia

314

People Are Awful

315

We Hate Change

316

Silence, Poverty, Family

317

How to Live Through Evil

318

A Soldier's Sacrifice

319

What is Catholic Education?

320

Pray Like the Tax Collector

321

Children at Mass

322

Going Backwards

323

Breaking Out of Maintenance Mode

324

The Most Confusing Parable

325

The Right to Demand Justice

326

Can We Ever Be Wise?

327

Accepting Punishment

328

Un-Domesticated

329

1 Good Refugee

330

Finding Rest

331

Freely Enslaved

332

Sacred & Profane

333

A Detailed Description of Heaven

334

Troubled Hearts

335

The Golden Rule is Not Enough

336

By His Reputation

337

What is Jesus Selling?

338

I Believe

339

Exult

340

Spectators

341

Hand-Me-Down

342

Judas

343

Clever God

344

Condescension

345

God is Scary

346

Satan's Tactics

347

How to Examine Your Conscience

348

What Do I Confess?

349

Nature & Grace

350

Are You Tied Up?

351

Mawwiage

352

Magnetized

353

A Better Resolution

354

Obedient to the Gift

355

Silence

356

Incarnate

357

Are You Prepared?

358

Bring it to Completion

359

Chris...NOT YET

360

Who Is Truth?

361

Deliver Us From Evil

362

Widows & Soldiers

363

All In

364

Bored at Mass

365

The G.O.A.T.

366

Part Of Me

367

Moth Eaten Faith

368

Getting Along

369

Resistance Training

370

Not Like Animals

371

Words and The Word

372

Foster Father

373

Goodbyes

374

Without Rest

375

Am I Weak Enough?

376

Gimme Gimme Never Gets

377

What's in a Name?

378

American Nightmare

379

To Infinity And Beyond

380

We Are Not Equals

381

Trini-what?!

382

Caritas

383

Anchored

384

Love Feels Like Death

385

Hypocrites

386

We Will See Him As He Is

387

Ignorance Is Not Bliss

388

Hell Where Is Your Victory?

389

Simple

390

EXULTET

391

Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Worship

392

Vital Snow

393

Wounded Healer

394

Don't Rebuild Your Own Temple

395

Crescamus In Christum

396

Make Me Clean

397

Plug-In

398

You Belong To Him

399

Look Up!

400

Proclamation Of The Moveable Feasts

401

Gestation, Genes, and Gift

402

Bear with One Another

403

The Imperfect Holy Family

404

#blessed?

405

Holdfast

406

Lost in Translation

407

Why Wait?

408

Crown the Shepherd

409

God-Wise