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growing up in Minnesota of the United States,

all of my priests were from here.

In this video is one of the most heartwarming moments you will see in a homily.

Father Mike Schmitz gave this homily in Ireland, and in the middle of his homily, he pauses.

He pauses to reflect on all of the priests in Minnesota where he grew up and where they were from, Ireland.

So this was a great moment of solidarity brought about by retrospection on Father Mike's part

and really appreciation for the spiritual fathers in his life.

Do you have appreciation for the spiritual fathers in your life?

So let's go ahead and check out this clip.

And then I have a few thoughts at the end.

Hello.

I am so grateful to be able to be here with you all on the walk in, aka the procession.

I was so humbled.

I was just so moved because we were, was the song, the breastplate of St. Patrick, was that part of the prayer?

And I was like, oh my gosh, we're here.

I will mention this probably tonight, but I'm just, I just cannot begin to express how grateful I am that you're here tonight,

that you were able to be here tonight with all the bishops and with these priests.

So you might not know this.

I'm not from here.

But I am from here, right? because every American likes to say that they're from Ireland.

I don't know if you know this, but literally everyone who has like a smidgen of Irish in them in the States is like, well, I'm Irish, you know?

Like, you are 1 16th Irish.

Like, you don't count.

I'm a quarter.

So that's 25%.

My family is from my grandmother's.

My dad's mom is from Cork.

And so there was the...

So, oh, it's a corker you are.

That was from a movie.

But anyways, so their names are Riley, Kiefer, and McNamara.

And so I just am so grateful.

But the bigger thing is this.

The bigger thing is as we're...

Growing up.

in Minnesota of the United States, all of my priests were from here.

All of them, everyone, the ones who heard my confession, the ones who offered Mass,

taught me how to pray.

If they came from here, they left everything and

and lived in relative obscurity so I could come back here

and have my name on the front of this thing that's crazy

and you guys all showed up to worship Jesus and for us to pray together it is so humbling and thank you

because without them, I wouldn't be me.

You know, it's so funny how often we approach Jesus and we make things so complicated.

I don't know where you're at in your life right now, but I think a lot of us are like, okay, God, what do you want me to do?

And we make it really, really complicated.

I know I make it complicated all of the time because it can't be simple.

It couldn't possibly be.

I mean, especially as Catholics, I mean, there's this book called the Catechism.

Have you seen this thing?

It is so thick.

Not only that, but you have the Bible.

That's also thick.

We need like a podcast that reads all of them.

That would be, that would, if someone could come up with an idea, I think that would cut through a lot of the complication.

But we make it so complicated because it's all just so, there's so much.

So if you're gonna be Catholic, it's got to be really complicated.

If you're gonna be Catholic, if you're gonna follow Jesus, it's got to be really complicated.

And that's not true.

In fact, the fact that we make it complicated is not new to us.

The verse reading is literally one of my favorite readings from the Old Testament, Micah chapter six.

I love it so much because here's Micah who asks this question.

he i micah micah is making things complicated

and he asked the question he says with what should i

come before the lord god what do you want me to

do how do you how do you want me to love

you he goes on to say he says with what will

i doubt bow down before god most high shall i come

before you with holocausts with with with with calves a year

old will the lord be pleased with thousands of rams with

myriad streams of oil i mean this is us right like okay god what do you want if you want me, what do I need?

What do you need me to do?

What do you need me to offer?

In fact, he even goes on to say, shall I offer my firstborn?

God's like, no, you're crazy.

We complicate things or we make it like this.

We say, okay, God, if I come, if I, if I belong to you, if I'm going to follow you, what do I need to do?

What do I need to give up?

What do I need to sacrifice? because that's Micah.

Micah was saying, you have to give all these thousands of lambs or my firstborn.

What do I need to sacrifice if I'm going to be yours?

And I love this.

That's why it's one of my favorite readings from the Old Testament is God responds to Micah.

And he says it so simply.

He's like, oh, you've been told.

You already know.

You've been told, oh man, what is good and what the Lord requires of you.

Again, we like to make it complicated.

And God says, no, no, no, you already know.

You've been told what is good and what the Lord requires of you.

Three things.

Only do the right, love goodness, and walk humbly with your God.

All of all of all the stuff.

Here's all the like Levitical laws.

Here's all the laws of sacrifice.

Here's all the laws of like, don't mix fibers and don't shave the sides you're, you've been told what is good.

Just do the right, love goodness, and walk humbly with your God.

I would say it like this.

I would, I would say that we can make it even more simple, that maybe in some ways in Jesus, we can make it even more simple.

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Jesus, I think, I would, I often say this, but virtually all of Catholicism,

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virtually all of Christianity comes down to one question that God is asking of us.

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So we only need to give one answer.

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The question that God is asking every one of us tonight is, does God have your permission to love you as you are right now?

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Yes, that's all of the Bible.

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That's all the catechism.

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That's all we believe as Catholics.

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is does God, there's this one question, does God have your permission to love you as you are right now?

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And I know what you're thinking, some of you are thinking, like, that's not true.

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I read the books, it's more complicated than that.

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But that's all it is.

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It all comes down to that one question.

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Does God have your permission to love you as you are right now?

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Because here's what I do.

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I'm like, okay, that's enough.

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That's fine, God.

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I get it.

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But what do you really want?

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Like, no, I just want to love you.

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So I start making bargains and I say, okay, God, you can love me when I'm better.

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You can love me when I'm holier.

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God, you can love me when I get my act together.

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God, you can love me when I fixed it out.

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God, you can love me after I go to confession.

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I remember, oh gosh, I went to confession not too long ago, a couple years maybe.

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I've been since then.

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I've been since then.

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But the priest was so good, and he just reminded me, he said, you know, you know that, after he gave me absolution, he says, You know that God loved you

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when you walked into this confessional just as much as he loves you when you're walking out of this confessional.

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The question is, does God have your permission to love you as you are right now?

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Again, the question isn't, hey, will you love God?

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The question is, will you first let him love you as you are?

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I think sometimes, this is the last thing, I think sometimes, I was told to keep this under three minutes, I think we're getting close.

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I think sometimes, I base,

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I think of Christianity as me trying to get better or trying to do better.

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But it doesn't come down to that.

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It comes down to, will you let him love you now?

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So in this mass, we're here for him.

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We're here for Jesus.

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Every one of us is here for Jesus.

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Will you let him love you?

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He brought you here.

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He brought you here.

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You're like, oh, I'm going to go to mass on Monday night.

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No, he brought you here.

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Why?

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Because he loves you.

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Will you give him permission to love you as you are right now?

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When you screw up, when you fall, when you fail, when you sin, okay, will you give him permission to love you as you are and let him heal you in confession?

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After you've fallen, and it's like, well, yeah, but I said, I haven't prayed yet.

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Okay, will you, after you've fallen, after you've sinned, after you've said no to him, in that moment before you go to confession, will you pray and give him permission to love you as you are in your prayers?

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After you've snapped at your kids, after you've been rude to your roommate, after you've done the exact thing you swore you would never do again,

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in that moment, will you give God permission to love you as you are right now?

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If we do that, we don't become better.

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If we do it, he does something in us.

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It is not complicated.

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It's simple.

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You've been told what is good.

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and what the Lord requires of you.

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Only do the right.

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Love goodness.

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Walk humbly with your God and in every moment answer the question

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does god have your permission to love you as you are and let him make you a saint

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And that moment when Father Mike just stops and he ponders and he almost gets teary-eyed, just reflecting on all of those great spiritual fathers,

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all of those great mentors in his life, and just how their influence ultimately led him to be in that moment, in that place.

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God's providence worked in such a way that there would be priests from Ireland in an obscure little town,

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little place in Minnesota to nurture this little boy who grew into a man who eventually grew into a priest, and he was able to go back to Ireland, kind of almost, you know,

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he's a quite famous individual, and just in a humble moment,

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a sincere moment, just provide appreciation to those priests,

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countrymen, on how just impactful they were to him in his life.

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Hopefully I got that out right.

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It's just a very profound moment, and it gets you to think, like, do you have appreciation?

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Do you have respect for the priests in your life, for the influences that God has placed over you in your life?

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I think many times we think that we're kind of doing it alone, and it really is just us and God, and do I deserve salvation or not?

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And that kind of gets into the second thing that I noticed with what Father Mike is saying here, is just how important it is to kind of flip the script of how we normally think.

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And it's always us in relation to God

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and what we have to do to earn the favor and the love of God, when in reality, what the scriptures are testifying to, what the great tradition is testifying to, what Christianity is ultimately testifying to,

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which makes it different than every other world religion and ideology, is that God loves you just the way that you are.

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Does that mean that you don't have to change?

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Absolutely not, because God loves you so much as you are to change you and to be in relationship to you, to come inside you and transform you from the inside out.

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That is an amazing message.

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And I think the connection here that's important to make is like, God does that and he does it through individuals.

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He does it through the church.

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He does it through spiritual fathers like priests.

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He does it through your biological fathers, even if they're not, but especially if they're spiritually oriented, right?

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It's amazing how God does what he does.

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And it's so awesome to kind of retrospect in the way that Father Mike is in this moment.

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And it does kind of bring a tear to your eye

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to just think about how God has used the people in your life to bring you to the place that you are.

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And it's all because of his love and his grace that transforms you in spite of the sins that you have, in spite of the frailities and failures that you have,

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to become a person that can actually shine a light to other people, can tell other people about Jesus and what Jesus has done for you.

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Man, it's just such great moments that bring such grace, it brings such peace and brings such inspiration that you want to go and just be a light,

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a shining light, a lamp on a hill for all to see.

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So this was a very inspirational homily from Father Mike.

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It almost sounded kind of Protestant, evangelical, the way he was kind of framing things.

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But I do think that that way of seeing, like, it really is God acting on our behalf.

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It's something so crucial to both Catholicism and Protestantism, and we really kind of go awry when either side loses that view.

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All right, did I need to throw that in there?

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No, this really should be about what happened in the clip, and what you should remember from this clip is that God loves you.

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Will you allow him to love you?

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Just something to be thinking about.

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God bless and peace.

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Esta aula de conversação de nível B2 usa o vídeo “Catholic Priest Heart-Melting Moment Goes Viral”. As palavras que mais se repetem: moment, complicated, Father, priest. Este vídeo tem 201 frases e 2429 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 15:18. O falante fala em ritmo natural, cerca de 159 palavras por minuto, próximo de uma conversa do dia a dia. 87% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês, por isso o vocabulário é fácil de acompanhar. 35 das 201 frases são perguntas, por isso é um bom treino para a entonação de perguntas e respostas curtas.

Vocabulário principal deste vídeo

As 15 palavras mais avançadas do vídeo, com pronúncia e significado:

Palavra	Pronúncia	Significado
confession substantivo	/kənˈfɛʃən/	confissão
homily substantivo	/ˈhoʊmɪli/	homília
appreciation substantivo	/əˌpɹiː.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/	apreciação
humbly advérbio	/ˈhʌmbli/	humildemente
testify verbo	/ˈtɛstɪfaɪ/	declarar, depor
humble adjetivo	/ˈhʌmbəl/	humilde
goodness substantivo	/ˈɡʊdnəs/	bondade
catechism substantivo	/ˈkætɪˌkɪzəm/	catecismo
confessional substantivo	/kənˈfɛʃənəl/	confessionário
firstborn substantivo	/ˈfɜː(ɹ)stˌbɔː(ɹ)n/	primogénito, primogênito
gosh	/ɡɑːʃ/	meu Deus, nossa!
pause substantivo	/pɔːz/	pausa
transform verbo	/tɹænsˈfɔɹm/	transformar
spite substantivo	/spaɪt/	desprezo, rancor
shine verbo	/ʃaɪn/	brilhar, luzir

Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir

Palavra	Pronúncia	Significado
grow up verbo		crescer
check out verbo		verificar, sacar só
come back verbo		voltar
come up with verbo		pensar (em), alcançar
give up verbo		render-se
go ahead verbo	/ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/	vai em frente

Frases que vale a pena repetir

Frases curtas e completas do vídeo que você pode usar na conversa do dia a dia:

Have you seen this thing?
What do you need me to do?
What do you need me to offer?
What do I need to give up?
Does that mean that you don't have to change?

Gramática neste vídeo

As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:

Estrutura	No vídeo
Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agora	Have you seen · you've been told · I've been
Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem faz	you've been told · was told
Orações relativas who / which + oração — informação extra sobre uma pessoa ou coisa	everyone who has · ones who heard · man who eventually

Pronúncia para ficar de olho

O falante usa 59 contrações e formas reduzidas, como you've, I'm, you're. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.

Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: confession /kənˈfɛʃən/, appreciation /əˌpɹiː.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/, confessional /kənˈfɛʃənəl/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, shine /ʃaɪn/
Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: appreciation /əˌpɹiː.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/, catechism /ˈkætɪˌkɪzəm/, confessional /kənˈfɛʃənəl/, complication /ˌkɑm.pləˈkeɪ.ʃən/, obscurity /əbˈskjʊɹɪti/

Sons difíceis para falantes de português:

Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: spite /spaɪt/, breastplate /ˈbɹɛstˌpleɪt/, complicate /ˈkɑmplɪkeɪt/, myriad /ˈmɪɹi.æd/, orient /ˈɔɹ.iˌɛnt/
/l/ final — a língua toca o céu da boca, não vira “u”: humble /ˈhʌmbəl/, confessional /kənˈfɛʃənəl/, impactful /ˈɪmpæktfəl/, evangelical /iːvænˈd͡ʒɛlɪkəl/, inspirational /ˌɪnspəˈɹeɪʃənəl/
/h/ — um sopro suave, diferente do “r”: homily /ˈhoʊmɪli/, humbly /ˈhʌmbli/, humble /ˈhʌmbəl/, holocaust /ˈhɑl.əˌkɔst/, heal /ˈhiːl/

Como praticar com este vídeo

Ouça o vídeo inteiro uma vez sem falar e anote as palavras que você não conhece.
Comece na velocidade 0,75×, faça shadowing frase por frase e volte à velocidade normal quando ficar fácil.
Grave a sua voz e compare com o original, prestando atenção a palavras como confession, homily, appreciation.

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