Someone could say, I hate that. I don't like this. I don't want to do it.

No problem. You do not have to do it.

How my name's Father Mike Schmitz and this is the Century Presents. A lot of us are drawn to doing something like this,

something like this. Am I talking too fast? Maybe I'll slow down. I'm drawn to doing something like this. Am I talking too fast? Maybe I'll slow down. I'm drawn to doing something like this because there's something about a challenge that engages us, right? There's something in us, I think, as human beings, that desires to be challenged and there's also this.

There's also something in us that knows that if I can engage with this challenge and I can enter

into this challenge, I might be prepared for the next challenge.

Not only that, but if I engage in this challenge,

I might have something to offer

that I wouldn't be able to offer

if I didn't do this. There is a new thing. It's called

St Michael's Lent. It's actually quite old that goes all the way back to St. Francis of

Assisi. He would enter into this time period from August 15th all the way to September 29th and he would enter into doing

some spiritual disciplines as a way of growing his love for the Lord as a way of growing himself

in freedom as a way of becoming the kind of person

who has something to offer.

Now here's this interesting thing.

I like to go back to this.

Sometimes people here Exodus 90,

or now this newish, newish one, St. Michael's Lent,

and we can shrink back from it.

We can think like, that's people being extreme,

that's people being just, they're taking it way too far.

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