Fr. Kris Schmidt
426 episodes listed below
Catholic preaching with backbone and mercy.
Fr. Kris Schmidt Homilies is a Catholic homily and teaching feed rooted in Scripture, Holy Week, Eucharist, and practical discipleship. Its tone is direct but pastoral, moving from dense theology to everyday questions about rest, witness, doubt, service, and love.
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Fr. Kris Schmidt Homilies is a Catholic homily and catechesis feed centered on Scripture, Eucharist, and the pressure of actually living the faith. It is direct. Recent episodes move through Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter, Holy Thursday, Lenten retreat sessions, and Bible catechesis without treating any of them as seasonal decoration. The preaching returns again and again to what Christianity asks of a person when love becomes costly. Palm Sunday becomes a meditation on being a burden and carrying burdens in love. Good Friday turns toward the pierced heart of Jesus and the meeting of human suffering with divine life. Easter is treated not as a pleasant spring symbol, but as the source of hope for resurrection, eternal rest, and a restored self. Holy Thursday lingers on the surprising weakness in priesthood, Eucharist, and service: deserters, flat bread, and dirty feet. The tone can be sharp. It can also be patient, especially when naming grief, loneliness, anxiety, doubt, sin, and the search for rest. The retreat episodes are more instructional, moving from priorities into concrete practices for witnessing to the gospel. They ask Catholics to know their own testimony, adapt it to different audiences, and speak from struggle rather than religious performance. The catechesis episodes bring a classroom rhythm, explaining oral tradition, inspiration, the compilation of Scripture, Catholic and Protestant Bible differences, and the five covenants from Adam through David. The show’s theological vocabulary is substantial, but the movement is usually practical. Ideas are pressed toward habits: Mass, confession, prayer, devotional life, service, testimony, and trust. Its best moments come when a familiar religious phrase is challenged and rebuilt from the inside. The listener is not offered easy comfort. The comfort comes after the hard claim has been faced. Fr. Kris Schmidt Homilies suits Catholics who want preaching with backbone, biblical structure, and immediacy. It also serves listeners exploring Catholic theology through the texture of actual homilies rather than studio conversation.
Made for: For Catholics seeking serious homilies, Scripture catechesis, and practical formation in prayer, witness, Eucharist, and daily discipleship. It also suits listeners curious about Catholic theology in a preaching context.
What sets it apart: The show pairs blunt pastoral challenge with careful theological framing, moving from Holy Week and salvation history into concrete questions of rest, burdens, service, testimony, and trust. Its strength is making doctrine feel immediate without flattening its difficulty.
Coming to know God's Word in our lives is a bumpy and sometimes complicated road. I know this because it is true in my life. My desire is that, as a priest through my homilies, God might make Himself known to you more clearly for He is simply Beautiful.
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A direct retreat talk on living the gospel through disciplined, intentional faith.
The talk treats the Christian life as a practical test of witness: are believers speaking the gospel with confidence and living as steady witnesses, or settling for the minimum?
A practical retreat talk on sharing the gospel with clarity, adaptation, and trust.
This talk follows Fr. Kris Schmidt as he uses St. Paul in Athens to frame practical advice on sharing the gospel. He points to adjusting length and emphasis for different audiences, telling a vocation story in more than one setting, and keeping the focus on what God has done…
A practical retreat session on praying with the Gospel and building a steadier prayer habit.
Prayer with the Gospel is treated as a working retreat session, not a lecture. The speaker lays out the evening plan, admits they are behind schedule, and says the format will shift from week to week.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
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This episode argues that being a burden is an inherent part of human existence and Christian life, and rejecting this reality is contrary to love and faith.
This episode explores the paradoxical nature of Jesus's gifts on Holy Thursday—the priesthood instituted among deserters, the Eucharist using flat bread, and service through washing dirty feet—to challenge conventional religious expectations.
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This episode explores the writing and compilation of the Bible, focusing on the transition from oral tradition to written scriptures during the Babylonian exile and the Catholic understanding of divine inspiration.
This episode explores the Christian message that through repentance and God's grace, believers become children of light, able to see God through faith, contrasting this with spiritual blindness as illustrated by the Pharisees' reaction to a miraculous healing.
This episode explains the five covenants in the Bible as the framework for understanding salvation history, detailing each from Adam to David and their role in God's relationship with humanity.
A Catholic priest reflects on the nature of wounds and repentance as a path to embracing the freedom of the Gospel.
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A priest delivers a catechetical homily summarizing the Bible's timeline from Jesus onward, encouraging parishioners to use a visual Bible timeline.
A Catholic priest delivers a catechetical summary of the Old Testament, covering from Moses to the kings of Israel.
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A Catholic priest begins a series on the Bible, summarizing the first 2,500 years of salvation history from Adam and Eve to Moses.
A Catholic homily reflecting on the Feast of the Epiphany, emphasizing God's search for humanity through desire.
This episode explores how misguided expectations, particularly around the Messiah in biblical times, can lead to disappointment and unfulfillment, drawing parallels to modern life.
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This episode explores different perspectives on the Christian relationship with God, from agnosticism to active discipleship, and introduces the biblical concept of righteousness as right relationship.
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A Catholic homily reflecting on the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross and how seeing our weakness leads us closer to Jesus.
A Catholic priest explores who we allow to discipline us in life and faith, drawing from the letter to the Hebrews.
A Catholic priest delivers a homily on the sin of pride and the importance of humility, referencing scripture and Pope Leo XIII.
A priest reflects on the book of Ecclesiastes and the Christian principle of detachment from worldly things.
A priest discusses how faith is inherent to human life, using examples like voting and immigration.
A priest reflects on how children's questions about faith evolve from kindergarten through high school.
This episode discusses how to live the Christian life during ordinary time, emphasizing the importance of song and community through examples like singing psalms and family traditions.
A Catholic priest reflects on the omnipresence of the Trinity in Christian life, from baptism to daily prayer, and its importance in moving from earthly to eternal things.
A Catholic priest reflects on the Ascension and Pentecost, emphasizing reliance on the Holy Spirit to transcend earthly attachments.
This episode explores how love can coexist with imperfection in relationships, drawing from Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia.
This episode explores the concept that love coexists with imperfection, drawing from Pope Francis's encyclical Amoris Laetitia to discuss marriage and family life.
A priest reflects on the human struggle with Jesus' absence and the true nature of heaven.
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A priest reflects on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and the connection between Peter's denial of Jesus and Jesus' question 'Do you love me?'
A Catholic homily reflecting on the meaning of Jesus' resurrection as the culmination of God's revelation, not merely a miracle.
A Catholic priest delivers a homily on Holy Thursday, focusing on the washing of the feet as a model for Christian service.
A Catholic homily exploring the gift of repentance through the story of the woman caught in adultery.