04/06/25 The Place of the Way: Dead Ends
Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
Ascension
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🗓️ 5 April 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Homily from the Fifth Sunday in Lent.
We run out of all hope...and then Jesus.
The Dead End is a necessary place of the way. The location where we run out of our own skill and our own strength and find ourselves completely unable to move forward on our own. In the midst of the dead end...and then Jesus.
- Mass Readings from April 6, 2025:
- Isaiah 43:16-21
- Psalm 126:1-6
- Philippians 3:8-14
John 8:1-11
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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. |
| 0:12.4 | If you want to get this in other Sunday mass resources sent straight to your inbox, |
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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 |
| 0:32.9 | the Holy Gospel according to John. Chapter 8, verses 1 through 11. |
| 0:39.6 | Jesus went to the Mount of Olives, but early in the morning he arrived again in the temple |
| 0:43.3 | area, and all the people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught them. |
| 0:49.1 | Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made |
| 0:52.9 | her stand in the middle. |
| 0:54.7 | They said to him, teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. |
| 0:58.8 | Now, in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. |
| 1:02.9 | So what do you say? They said this to test him so that they could have some charge to bring |
| 1:07.9 | against him. Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger, |
| 1:12.6 | but when they continued asking him, he straightened up and said to them, |
| 1:16.6 | Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her. |
| 1:21.6 | Again he bent down and wrote on the ground, |
| 1:24.6 | and in response, they went away, one by one, beginning with the |
| 1:29.4 | elders. So he was left alone with the woman before him. Then Jesus straightened up and said to her, |
| 1:36.3 | Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you? She replied, no one, sir. Then Jesus said, |
| 1:49.8 | Neither do I condemn you. Go. And from now on, do not sin anymore. |
| 1:52.5 | The gospel of the Lord. |
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