04/12/26 The Next...: The Next Confession
Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
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🗓️ 11 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Homily from Divine Mercy Sunday.
It’s not about your first or last confession. It’s about your next one.
The Christian life doesn’t end with a first confession, baptism, or Easter moment, it continues through the next step. What keeps love alive is not looking back, but continually returning to Christ through confession, mercy, and grace. Each “next” encounter with Jesus strengthens faith and guards against a cold heart.
Mass Readings from April 12, 2026: Acts 2:42-47 Psalm 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-241 Peter 1:3-9John 20:19-31
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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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| 0:28.3 | God bless. |
| 0:30.0 | The Lord be with you. |
| 0:31.7 | And with your spirit. |
| 0:32.9 | A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John. |
| 0:35.8 | Glory to your Lord. |
| 0:37.3 | Chapter 20 verses 19 through 31. |
| 0:41.9 | On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked where the |
| 0:45.4 | disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, |
| 0:51.3 | Peace be with you. |
| 0:52.8 | When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. |
| 0:55.9 | The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. |
| 0:58.0 | Jesus said to them again, peace be with you. |
| 1:01.9 | As the Father has sent me, so I send you. |
| 1:05.2 | And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, |
| 1:08.8 | receive the Holy Spirit, whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, |
| 1:13.1 | and whose sins you retain are retained. Thomas Caledimus, one of the 12, was not with them |
| 1:18.7 | when Jesus came. So the other disciples said to him, we have seen the Lord, but he said to them, |
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