How Father Mike Schmitz balances a popular media ministry with being a college campus priest
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Podcast episodes and TH-cam videos featuring Father Michael Schmitz rack up thousands, even millions, of views. His latest project, “The Bible in a Year,” has even made it to the top of the Apple Podcast charts since it debuted in 2021. But for students at the University of Minnesota Duluth, Father Mike isn’t just another celebrity priest. He’s their chaplain.
Topics:
00:44 - A day in the life of Fr. Mike Schmitz
06:45 - The joys and challenges of doing campus ministry on a secular university campus
24:00 - How 'The Bible in a Year' project changed Fr. Mike's engagement with Scripture
35:45 - How Fr. Mike balances being a celebrity priest and a chaplain to his students
Subscribe to "Jesuitical: A Podcast for Young Catholics" wherever you listen to podcasts.
---
America Media is the leading provider of editorial content for thinking Catholics and those who want to know what Catholics are thinking. To become a subscriber, visit www.americamag....
******
Sign-up for our newsletter: bit.ly/2Ka4SOi
******
Follow us on Social Media:
• America Media on Facebook: bit.ly/2Kal3Ll
• America Media on Twitter: bit.ly/2viJosZ
• America Media on Instagram: bit.ly/2Ka5q6O
******
Support more videos like this: bit.ly/2vgqm6A
Delightful interview. I love Fr Mike! Bible in a Year was transforming for me. And I'm kicking myself for not doing it again this year because it was that good. Looking forward to Catechism in a Year!
Thank you for this interview .Fr Mike tries to be the best priest he can be, and it shows. God bless him. Claire.
Thank you for introducing us to Fr. Mike as a person instead of as a celebrity. Admittedly, I tend to be very distrusting of 'celebrity priests' because of the accompanying cult of personality. I pray that Fr. Mike will persevere in humility and please our Lord in good service. St. Michael, pray for us!
Good questions. Good interview.
God has given a new seal for all humanity
Alpha is very useful and effective, and Nicky Gumbel is a brilliant, passionate, intelligent preacher
I love the endorsement of Alpha by Fr. Mike! We use it at our parish with youth and adults with great fruit.
I worry about having too much Catholic media such as podcasts. My concern is that it dilutes it and makes it easy to inject biases and personal thoughts that are outside of Catholicism. We've all seen how Christian groups have gone right off the rails, particularly in America and through social media. It's nice to have access to the wider community through the internet, but it's dangerous too.
Nice interview, thanks for having him explain Newman Center and it's role at a state college. Also, I thought he taught at a Catholic College .Good Job
Is this -True - if you do not do the will of
God - you will not be going to heaven.
Because this is what I read in the Bible
Well I am guessing I won’t be going to Heaven, So , now what happens to me.
Well . What now happens to me.
I have been Baptized. But since I won’t be doing God : will , now what Happens to me
We’ll need advice on this
Hopefully it won’t take a year
This is only my opinion, so keep that in mind. You said you're baptized, you know it saids in the bible to do the will of God, you said you don't do God & you want to know where that leaves you, am I right? 1st you were brought into God's family by baptism but as with every family you can choose to stay or leave but they're still your family. 2nd you know at least some of God's word, maybe alot, I'm not sure. And you don't do God, again I'm guessing you're not behaving as good as you can be. But what happens to you is your choice. Freewill! Jesus doesn't want to loose any of us. He loves us more then we even love ourselves. And at the end of our lives, he gives us what we've chosen. What good is freewill if at the end of this life he forces you to spend eternity with him if you don't want to. You see what I mean? Hell is where you go if you don't choose an eternity with him, you choose eternity without him, without the greatest love. This life will end, that's a fact. A Christian believes that the death is actually the birth of our new life. The life without death, pain, sadness, decay, the life God intended for us in the garden before sin brought death to the world. Where we walk with God in relationship with him. We call it heaven. But if you don't want Him or any relationship with him then you go to a place where he's removed from your site. A place void of his presence & love. But the place you choose is for eternity, the next life is eternal. So I can't say what will happen to you, other then you'll get what you choose. But I can say that I know he loves you & there's no sin he wouldn't forgive. We all sin, we're all broken but he'll always be there with open arms. I'll be praying for you ❤
I am surprised Zac never wanted to read the entire Bible. Listen to Fr. Mike’s Bible in a Year. You will know what you are missing:)
this is a softball interview. not one challenging question was put to father mike, such as: what does he make of the widely held belief that the church in the u.s. is morally bankrupt? or: does he believe that clericalism is as serious a problem as does pope francis?
Not all interviews are interrogations
He and his Ascension Colleagues went at least a *year* after January 6th acting like the Capitol Invasion never happened and traumatized a TON of people, believers and unbelievers alike. Not a single response whatsoever like they did with The Pennsylvania Report or George Floyd saying how wrong it was and that we're meant to be better witnesses to our faith than expressing disagreement this way. And not a single word explaining their silence or apologizing for the delay.
Forget all of their ministry credentials and successes and love for Jesus and his Church.
What does that say about them as PEOPLE?
About how safe they are for people trying to recover from the horror of seeing other publicly professing Christians committing premeditated assault and terrified that they need to accept this if they want to stay on good terms with God?
If all religions lead to the same God as promoted by RCC, isn't Jesus Christ's death on the cross in vain?
@Dillon Leaf RCC is promoting that. It's all over the world.
@@Theunspokentruth77 Wrong.
you can be LGBT and Catholic 👬
We are all sinners, but we should all try to stop sinning.
He is too orange
orange?
It’s what tends to happen when you’re white and out in the sun a lot lol
Fascinating look into the life of a person doing Jesus in the real world.