04/05/26 Easter Sunday: Everything is Restored
Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
Ascension
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🗓️ 5 April 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Homily from Easter Sunday.
Everything given and taken is restored.
Jesus did not rise from the dead to merely prove a point. He rose so that all could be restored. Everything we give to Him...everything we allow Him to take...all of it can be restored.
Mass Readings from April 5, 2026: Acts 10:34,37-43 Psalms 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23Colossians 3:1-4John 20:1-9
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sunday homilies with me, Father Mike Schmitz. I hope today's homily inspires and motivates you, |
| 0:07.6 | and I also hope that it leaves you hungry for the one who gave everything to feed you. |
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| 0:25.0 | subscribe on your podcast app for weekly notifications. God bless. The Lord be with you. A reading from |
| 0:33.4 | the Holy Gospel according to John. Glory to the Lord. |
| 0:39.5 | Chapter 20, verses 1 through 9. |
| 0:46.3 | On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdalah came to the tomb early in the morning while it was still dark and saw the stone removed from the tomb. |
| 0:49.7 | So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved and told them |
| 0:54.0 | they have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don't know where they put him. So Peter and the other |
| 0:59.1 | disciple went out and came to the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter |
| 1:04.1 | and arrived at the tomb first. He bent down and saw the burial cloths there but did not go in. When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there but did not go in. When Simon Peter arrived after him, |
| 1:13.0 | he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there and the cloth that had covered his head, |
| 1:17.0 | not with the burial cloths, but rolled up in a separate place. Then the other disciple also went in, |
| 1:22.8 | the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed. |
| 1:28.3 | For they did not yet understand the scripture |
| 1:30.9 | that he had to rise from the dead. |
| 1:34.9 | The gospel of the Lord. |
| 1:37.3 | Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 1:39.6 | Right, you have a seat. |
| 1:44.8 | So on Holy Thursday, we talked about how everything was given, that Jesus gave everything. |
| 1:51.9 | And on Good Friday, do we talk about how everything was taken? |
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