5/14/23 A Reason for Your Hope

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 13 May 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Sixth Sunday of Easter

Jesus is the Lord. Is He my Lord?

Saint Peter tells us to be prepared to give a reason for our hope. We need to be ready to give an explanation for the truth that Jesus is the source of hope. We also need to be ready to give a reason for our personal hope in Jesus.

Mass Readings from May 14, 2023:
Acts 8:5-8, 14-17
Psalm 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20
1 Peter 3:15-18

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sunday Homelies with me, Father Mike Schmitz.
0:04.6	I hope today's homelie inspires and motivates you, and I also hope that it leaves you hungry
0:09.4	for the one who gave everything to feed you.
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0:28.3	God bless.
0:30.8	The Lord be with you.
0:33.2	A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.
0:37.5	Chapter 14 verses 15 through 21.
0:40.9	Jesus said to his disciples,
0:43.3	if you love me, you will keep my commandments.
0:46.7	And I will ask the Father and he will give you another advocate to be with you always.
0:51.6	The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows him.
0:58.1	But you know him, because he remains with you and will be in you.
1:02.9	I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.
1:06.5	In a little while, the world will no longer see me, but you will see me, because I live and you will live.
1:13.8	On that day, you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you.
1:19.8	Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me.
1:24.0	And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father.
1:27.5	And I will love him and reveal myself to him the gospel of the Lord.
1:34.6	Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
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