Ordinary Time: Finding Holiness in Everyday Life
About this ebook
Amid the big events and exciting days of life, so many days are simply ordinary. Yet these ordinary times hold extraordinary potential for holiness.
Ordinary Time: Finding Holiness in Everyday Life, a booklet in The Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz Collection, was created to invite Catholics closer to God by teaching them how to live ordinary days extraordinarily through Fr. Mike Schmitz’s homilies.
In Ordinary Time, Fr. Mike Schmitz reveals all Catholics’ divine potential for holiness and how the saints provide a timeless example of living every day for Christ. The practical guidance found in this booklet can help each person invite God into every moment and make the choice to continuously strive for heaven.
Live every day extraordinarily with advice on:
How to develop a vision for your life and ensure that it is also God’s vision
Why cultivating wonder leads to gratitude and joy
Whether holiness is for all God’s children or just a certain few
How to act on your saintly potential for holiness
What giving God the very best of your day looks like
Complete with thought-provoking questions, prayerful meditations, and real-life challenges after each chapter, this booklet is perfect for individual devotion or group study.
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About the author
Fr. Mike Schmitz, a Catholic priest and evangelist well known for his social media videos and podcasts, hosted the 2021 breakout podcast The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)™, which became the #1 podcast on the Apple charts after its January 2021 launch, and is the most popular Catholic podcast of all time. The Bible in a Year was Chartable’s #1 global podcast in religion for several years, and was covered by news outlets including CBS, Fox, and The New York Times Magazine (press kit here).
For the impact of The Bible in a Year podcast, Fr. Mike was recognized as one of Our Sunday Visitor’s 2021 Catholics of the Year as well as a recipient of the 2022 Cardinal John P. Foley Award for excellence and innovation in Catholic storytelling. He is an internationally beloved Catholic speaker, and has spoken to hundreds of crowds ranging from his local Catholic parish to the National Eucharistic Congress audience of 50,000.
Fr. Mike is the director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry for the Diocese of Duluth as well as the chaplain for the Newman Center at the University of Minnesota-Duluth (UMD). Fr. Mike attended St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, and was ordained for the Diocese of Duluth in 2003.
Fr. Mike is best known for:
Ascension Presents: Fr. Mike Schmitz (YouTube)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)™ (podcast)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) (podcast)
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Podcast
Sundays with Ascension (Mass on YouTube)
Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz (podcast)
See more from Fr. Mike:
The 99, An Evangelization Mission Series
Altaration: The Mystery of the Mass Revealed
Belonging: Baptism in the Family of God
The Curious Catholic
No Greater Love: A Biblical Walk Through Christ’s Passion
Pocket Guide to the Sacrament of Reconciliation
Power and Grace: A Guide to the Catholic Sacraments
Pray, Decide, and Don’t Worry
Quick Catholic Lessons with Fr. Mike
Quick Catholic Lessons with Fr. Mike: Vol. 2, Leader’s Guide
Received: Your Journey to First Communion (Leader videos + Parent videos)
Renewed: Your Journey to First Reconciliation (Leader videos + Parent videos)
