Listen to the homily here.
Notes:
Notes:
We have probably thought of this long Passion of Jesus Christ routine
- • Distracting, boring
- • Really, it is chilling
This weekend I would like to share a list of sins that we just listened to
- • Greediness: money
- o Judas: went to the High Priests to have him be arrested
- o In another gospel, it was written that he stole from the disciples money
- o How have you been greedy? Stealing? Jealousy?
- • Laziness
- o Disciples went to sleep as Jesus Christ prayed in his agony in the garden: three times
- o How are you lazy? Missing Mass? Not praying?
- • Violence
- o Soldiers with swords and clubs
- o Peter struck a slave’s ear
- o Jesus was spit on, made fun of, punched and scourged
- o How have you been violent? Mean? Slander or libel? Hating other people? Physically or emotionally hurting others?
- • Cowardness
- o As Jesus was arrested…where did his best friends go? Where did the disciples go?
- ♣ They ran away
- o How have you been a coward? Not standing up for the unborn, the poor, the kid that is picked on in school?
- • Lying
- o Peter as he denied Jesus Christ three times, saying that he was not with Jesus
- o Jesus while in the court (Sanhedrin) listened witnesses to bring false testimony
- o Do you lie? Do you fabricate? Gossip? Speak half-truths?
There is bad news and good news through Jesus’ Passion
- • The bad news: each of us are sinners
- o The Passion is like an examination of our own lives, mind, body and soul
- • The good news: Jesus Christ gave his life and forgives us!
- o Every sin except not asking for forgiveness
We have some other good news
- • Next weekend is the Triduum
- o Holy Thursday
- o Good Friday
- o Easter Vigil
- o Please come
- • Next weekend, we will be giving you a book about forgiveness
- o Especially to learn how we must forgive others
- • And we will be offering more times for forgiveness
- o Wednesday: 5:30-6:15
- o Thursday: 6:00-6:45 and after the Liturgy
- o Friday: Before and after the Liturgy
- o Saturday from 7:00-7:45
- o Please go to Confession!
Let us walk well to the best news in our lives
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