05/17/20 Exiles: Why Go Back?

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Sixth Sunday of Easter.

Not a habit or a have-to, but the heart is the reason.

At some point, the exile will end. You will be able to go back. But why? What is the reason why you will go back?

Mass Readings from May 17, 2020:
Acts 8:5-8, 14-17
Psalms 66:1-3, 4-7, 16, 20
1 Peter 3:15-18

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0:00.0	The Lord be with you.
0:03.0	And with your spirit.
0:04.5	He reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.
0:07.0	Lord, it's you, O Lord.
0:09.0	Chapter 14 verses 15 through 21.
0:12.0	Jesus said to His disciples,
0:15.0	If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
0:19.0	And I will ask the Father and He will give you another advocate to be with you always,
0:23.0	the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept because it neither sees nor knows Him.
0:29.0	But you know Him because He remains with you and I will be with you.
0:35.0	I will not leave you orphan.
0:37.0	I will come to you.
0:40.0	In a little while, though, the world will no longer see me, but you will see me.
0:45.0	Because I live and you will live.
0:48.0	On that day, you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you.
0:55.0	Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me.
0:59.0	And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father.
1:02.0	And I will love Him and reveal myself to Him.
1:07.0	The Gospel of the Lord.
1:10.0	Great to do, Lord. Jesus Christ.
1:14.0	So in these days, I've been really thinking, you know, of the last weeks of the Easter season.
1:20.0	I've been thinking a lot about the exile of the Jews in Babylon.
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