Episode 123149: 3/15/26 Autobiography: Who Will You Be?
3/14/202623 min
Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent
At the end of the story, who will you be?
What you seek shapes what you see. Look for hope. Look for joy. Look for goodness. The things you train your eyes to notice will shape the person you become. At the end of the story, who will you be?
Mass Readings from March 15, 2026: 1 Samuel 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a Psalm 23: 1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6Ephesians 5:8-14
John 9:1-41
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[gentle music] Welcome to Sunday Homilies with me, Father Mike Schmitz. I hope today's homily inspires and motivates you, and I also hope that it leaves you hungry for the one who gave everything to feed you. If you want to get this and other Sunday Mass resources sent straight to your inbox, sign up at ascensionpress.com/sunday or by texting "Sunday" to 33777. You can also follow or subscribe in your podcast app for weekly notifications. God bless. The Lord be with you. And with your spirit. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John. Glory to you, O Lord. Chapter nine, verses one through 41. "As Jesus passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?' Jesus answered, 'Neither he nor his parents sinned. It is so that the works of God might be visible through him. We have to do the works of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.' When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made clay with the saliva, and smeared the clay on the eyes, uh, on his eyes, and said to him, 'Go wash in the pool of Siloam,' which means 'sent.' So he went and washed, and came back, able to see. His neighbors and those who had seen him earlier as a beggar said, 'Isn't this the one who used to sit and beg?' Some said, 'It is,' but others said, 'No, it just looks like him.' He said,