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Misery and Mercy
FromBishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
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Misery and Mercy
FromBishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
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14 minutes
Released:
Apr 3, 2019
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Podcast episode
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In this week's Gospel, we hear the story of the woman caught in adultery, a tale that has beguiled Christians and non-Christians for two millennia. The story displays our constant temptation to use knowledge of God’s law to hurt others, not to liberate them. We gossip, we scapegoat, we blame—and we convince ourselves that we’re just following the divine law in pointing out other people’s problems. But then enters Jesus, who affirms that the law's primary purpose is to make us humble, to draw us to higher attainment. Without denigrating the law in the least, Jesus reaches out in mercy in order to brings sinners back to life.
Released:
Apr 3, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Patience, People: St. James reminds us that an essential element of the Christian life is waiting. As the farmer waits for the precious yield of the earth, so the believer waits while Christ does his mysterious work in the world. Thus we must learn the virtue of patient e... by Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies