Episode 123143: 1/11/26 Two Traps

Fr. Mike Schmitz· Host0:00

So I mentioned at the beginning of this mass that, uh, this, this day, this Sunday, is, uh, the beginning of ordinary time. It is beginning of... I always think of ordinary time as a time for growth, right? So normally ordinary time we wear green, and green means grow. Uh, today, since it's the baptism of the Lord, we're having white 'cause it's a great celebration. But it does mean it's a beginning, and the beginning of a new... Ob- obviously the first Sunday of Advent was the beginning of the church year, but there's something about right now. Next weekend we are having our students back. It's our [laughs] beginning of the semester next weekend. There's something so powerful, so important about having this beginning starting with the baptism of our Lord, because, A, it's the beginning of his public ministry, and B, our baptism and your baptism was the beginning of new life in Jesus for you and for me. Like, this, this is what start... [laughs] In so many ways what started it all. The question I have is this: How do we live out that baptism? How do we live out that new life? How do we live out a relationship with God? And I think, I mean, there's so much to say about this, and we b- probably will talk about it much, much more into the semester, into the new year. But we fall into some traps, a- and you might not fall into these two traps. I wanna talk about two traps this morning. You might not fall into these two traps, but I think a lot of us regularly do, and they're the traps essentially that John the Baptist might be tempted into in the gospel today. The first trap is the trap of