In honor of Ascension Presents’ one-year anniversary, Fr. Mike Schmitz and Ascension Presents producer Maria Mitchell join forces for their first Caffeinated Conversation together. They discuss how Fr. Mike converted from drinking caramel machiattos to drinking his coffee black (like his clothes). Also revealed is a surprising story about how Fr. Mike almost ended up in Hollywood but instead answered the call of the heavenly Director, changing many lives as a result.
“Because He Asked Me To” |Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Mike’s Homily)
The freedom to love when you no longer feel like it. The precondition for love is freedom. Both the freedom to say no and the freedom to say yes, regardless of passing moods or circumstances. Tough love is willing to choose the good because God asked us to and because...