04/07/24 Justice or Mercy?

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 6 April 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Homily from Divine Mercy Sunday.

Mercy is the love we need the most and deserve the least.

We all want to get what we deserve. We want justice, and God is Just. But there are times when we need something more than justice...there are times when we might deserve justice, but need mercy.

Mass Readings from April 7, 2024:
Acts 4:32-35
Psalms 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24
1 John 5:1-6

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sunday Homilies with me, Father Mike Schmitz.
0:04.4	I hope today's homily inspires and motivates you,
0:07.4	and I also hope that it leaves you hungry for the one who gave everything to feed you.
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0:28.0	God bless.
0:30.0	The Lord be with you.
0:32.0	A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.
0:35.0	Chapter 20 verses 19 through 31.
0:41.0	On the evening of that first day of the week when the doors were
0:44.2	where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst
0:48.4	and said to them, peace be with you. When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
0:54.3	The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again,
0:58.8	peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.
1:03.0	And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,
1:06.0	receive the Holy Spirit, whose sins you forgive are forgiven them,
1:10.0	and whose sins you retain are retained.
1:13.0	Thomas called Didimus, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.
1:16.0	So the other disciples said to him,
1:18.0	we have seen the Lord, but he said to them,
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