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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Why God Loves You

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.97.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2015

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike Schmitz offers a relieving truth about God's paradoxical love for us, how he loves us: not in spite of our weaknesses, but because of them.

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0:00.0

Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is The Sension Presents.

0:08.5

So the other day I got a video on my phone from my little sister.

0:12.5

She has three little girls, the two oldest one is in first grade, the other one is in preschool.

0:17.4

And the preschooler, they're all lying in bed and the preschooler was sick.

0:23.3

And just like this video of just her eyes were all red and nose was so stuffed and she's

0:27.0

like, hello Uncle Father Mike, I hope you're doing okay.

0:29.6

I'm just like, oh my gosh.

0:31.3

And later on I talked to my sister.

0:32.7

And just here's this little sick little girl and she's laying on my sister's chest there

0:37.0

as my sister was in her bed with her older sister.

0:39.9

The two just kind of like just comforting her.

0:42.5

And she said, yeah, she had to pick Catherine up from school that day.

0:45.0

She got kind of sick and I just thought about this.

0:47.5

So just blew me away.

0:48.5

Just that reflecting on this is what does that do to a human being to know that when I'm

0:56.6

sick, someone else is going to stop what they're doing and they're going to come get me.

1:02.8

Like what does it do with their human being?

1:04.6

Like what does it do to a little Catherine there?

1:06.1

To say okay, when I can't breathe them out of my nose, my eyes are all red and just feel

1:10.3

so sick that someone's just going to hold on to me.

1:13.3

Someone's going to hold me close.

1:14.6

What does that do to a human being's heart?

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