April 7 Homily: Fr Vigoa — Transcript

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1. 0:10Psalm 118 the responsorial psalm for
2. 0:13today's mass has the theme of The Great
3. 0:16mercy of God towards his
4. 0:19people we see the psalmist here is
5. 0:21joyfully praising God again and again we
6. 0:26hear in the refrain give thanks to the
7. 0:28Lord for he is good good his Mercy
8. 0:31endures
9. 0:34forever in the year 2000 Pope John Paul
10. 0:37II canonized a humble polish Nun by the
11. 0:41name of sister FAA
12. 0:44Kavala it was to her that the Lord
13. 0:47himself appeared in a series of mystical
14. 0:50Visions in the 1930s in which he asked
15. 0:54sister fostina to promote the Devotion
16. 0:57to his Divine
17. 0:58Mercy at that mass of canonization Pope
18. 1:02John Paul II instituted this day the
19. 1:05Second Sunday of Easter as Divine Mercy
20. 1:10Sunday and it's to be celebrated by The
21. 1:13Universal Church in
22. 1:16perpetuity it's a beautiful day to
23. 1:19really think about what the Lord
24. 1:21provides what he gives how he takes care
25. 1:24of us through his
26. 1:27Mercy if we stop to think about it
27. 1:31we will quickly recognize the limits of
28. 1:34our patience and mercy that we have
29. 1:37towards others think about
30. 1:40it when someone irritates us or harms us
31. 1:45or harms our reputation or spoils our
32. 1:48plans or
33. 1:49gossips at times it is difficult to stay
34. 1:53calm and to forgive that person from the
35. 1:56heart but sometimes though the shoe can
36. 1:59be on on the other
37. 2:02foot how many times have we knowingly
38. 2:05irritated someone else or harmed their
39. 2:08reputation or spoiled their
40. 2:11plans wor still we may be indifferent to
41. 2:15the harm that we have cause I've always
42. 2:17said that every single individual has a
43. 2:20great capacity to do a lot of good and a
44. 2:23great capacity to do a lot of
45. 2:26harm even if we recognize our need for
46. 2:30forgiveness we may be too proud or
47. 2:33self-sufficient to recognize that we
48. 2:35need to ask for
49. 2:38forgiveness given the limits of our
50. 2:40patience and mercy as well as our need
51. 2:42for forgiveness what does divine mercy
52. 2:45Sunday say to
53. 2:47us what should this celebration of God's
54. 2:50mercy mean in our daily lives as we're
55. 2:54walking in the ways of the
56. 2:56lord well I suggest two messages that
57. 2:58you can take away
58. 3:00this Sunday the first is this that we
59. 3:03need to ReDiscover God's infinite Mercy
60. 3:06in our lives ReDiscover
61. 3:09it the depths of his love for us and the
62. 3:13Readiness that he has to forgive us
63. 3:17that's the first thing the second thing
64. 3:21is responding to God's Mercy is
65. 3:26challenging if we truly desire Mercy if
66. 3:30we truly desire
67. 3:34forgiveness Our Lives must
68. 3:38change God's infinite Mercy the gospel
69. 3:42tells us that Jesus went from place to
70. 3:45place preaching the kingdom of God he
71. 3:48was Healing The Sick raising the dead
72. 3:51but before Jesus healed people
73. 3:54physically he healed them
74. 3:57spiritually in fact his physical cures
75. 4:00were signs of spiritual healing the
76. 4:03healing of the Soul if you remember in
77. 4:06Matthew's gospel when Jesus healed the
78. 4:09paralytic his first words were the first
79. 4:12words were not rise and get up take your
80. 4:16mat and walk those were not his first
81. 4:19words but rather your sins are
82. 4:23forgiven perhaps jesus' words dismayed
83. 4:26the paralytic he's like okay that's nice
84. 4:28you're forgiving me my my sins but I'd
85. 4:30like to
86. 4:32walk certainly his words angered the
87. 4:35scribes and the Pharisees why because
88. 4:37they thought Jesus was usurping God's
89. 4:39prerogative of forgiving sins only God
90. 4:43can forgive sins they tell them you're
91. 4:45just this itinerant
92. 4:48preacher but in Jesus we meet The God
93. 4:51Who alone can forgive sins it is Christ
94. 4:54who forgives sins his very name the name
95. 4:58of Jesus what does the name ofes Jesus
96. 5:00being God
97. 5:03Saves and his Miracle of healing both
98. 5:05physical and spiritual were but the
99. 5:07runup of to the storm of mercies he
100. 5:11would
101. 5:12unleash on us by his death and
102. 5:17Resurrection the Lord as you saw and you
103. 5:20as you heard in the gospel today gave
104. 5:23his church the power to forgive
105. 5:27sins nothing less than the power of
106. 5:30Divine
107. 5:31Mercy the Risen Lord makes them Heralds
108. 5:34ministers and agents of Mercy which he
109. 5:37procured on the human race by his
110. 5:39passion death and Resurrection what does
111. 5:42he say he says who sins you shall
112. 5:44forgive they are
113. 5:46forgiven he says to them these words and
114. 5:49these words reverberate every time a
115. 5:52priest is in the confessional and says I
116. 5:55absolve you from your sins do you see
117. 5:58the connection
118. 6:01Divine Mercy Sunday aims to immerse Us
119. 6:03in this ocean of God's mercy to allow us
120. 6:07to ReDiscover what does that
121. 6:11mean if we abser absorb what we
122. 6:14celebrate in this Holy Mass then Jesus's
123. 6:16death and Resurrection will not remain
124. 6:18somewhere so far
125. 6:20off but something that's tangible
126. 6:24something that we can attain something
127. 6:26that is ready for us and
128. 6:28available
129. 6:32if
130. 6:33we if we hit home if we allow this to
131. 6:37sink into our minds our hearts we will
132. 6:41discover that in the death and
133. 6:42resurrection of Christ The Links of
134. 6:45which the father of mercies went to
135. 6:47rescue us from our sins and to make
136. 6:50ready the availability of his Limitless
137. 6:53mercies now is in the ministry of the
138. 6:56church especially in the sacrament of
139. 6:59Recon
140. 7:00ilation so the question this Sunday is
141. 7:03how then shall we respond to God's mercy
142. 7:06we ReDiscover it but then how do we
143. 7:09respond to God's
144. 7:11mercy what does it mean truly to accept
145. 7:14God's mercy into our hearts well the
146. 7:16answer to that question we need to look
147. 7:18at what our ordinary experiences teach
148. 7:24us let's just say that you have hurt
149. 7:29someone
150. 7:30you've hurt someone that you love
151. 7:33perhaps a spouse or a
152. 7:37parent coldness of heart replaces
153. 7:42warmth a warmth of
154. 7:44love tension enters into a relationship
155. 7:49that should be tranquil and
156. 7:51peaceful distance begins to triumph over
157. 7:55intimacy and closeness in the
158. 7:57relationship think about everything that
159. 8:00happens when there is a conflict or a
160. 8:02problem between you a spouse a parent a
161. 8:06child someone in your
162. 8:08family unless you are made of stone if
163. 8:12this Lov per this loved one reaches out
164. 8:16and makes the
165. 8:18initiative to forgive
166. 8:21you you will be
167. 8:23relieved
168. 8:25grateful
169. 8:27renewed joyful that this person that I
170. 8:30love who I hurtt now is reaching out to
171. 8:33me to forgive
172. 8:35me because your loved one has given you
173. 8:38a great gift the gift of selfless love
174. 8:40and
175. 8:41mercy now does it mean that it's okay to
176. 8:44go back to business as
177. 8:46usual or does accepting another's
178. 8:48forgiveness not mean that you and I have
179. 8:51to change that something has to give not
180. 8:54only our outward Behavior but also what
181. 8:56is in the depths of our hearts because
182. 8:59you you see forgiveness is not a get out
183. 9:01of jail free
184. 9:04card what it does is it g allows for a
185. 9:07new
186. 9:09beginning it's not too much different
187. 9:11when we respond to the gift of God's
188. 9:13mercy and this is what we need to
189. 9:16understand all of us love God but often
190. 9:19we find that our sins have alienated us
191. 9:23from God our relationship with God cools
192. 9:27our tranquil hearts become our
193. 9:30Tranquility in our hearts
194. 9:32ceases God seems
195. 9:35distant but we got to understand yet it
196. 9:38is God who always takes the initiative
197. 9:41to heal the breach it is God who
198. 9:44approaches us again and again and again
199. 9:49he the father of mercies whose crucified
200. 9:51and risen son touches the deepest wounds
201. 9:55of our
202. 9:57existence when we hear of God's
203. 9:59forgiveness in the scripture when God
204. 10:01confines his desire to forgive us in the
205. 10:03moments of private prayer when our own
206. 10:06heart aches with the with a separation
207. 10:08from God because of what our sins have
208. 10:11caused then let us joyfully open our
209. 10:14hearts to this selfless gift of
210. 10:16mercy and we do so by making a good unb
211. 10:20burning confession in the sacrament of
212. 10:25reconciliation only a humble and
213. 10:27contrite heart can receive receive God's
214. 10:31mercy and once the Peace of Christ
215. 10:34enters our hearts and our lives begin to
216. 10:37change or should begin to change we may
217. 10:41stumble and fall even repeatedly but
218. 10:43God's Grace will be at work in us if we
219. 10:46patiently work with God's mercy to begin
220. 10:49to mend our hearts to replace Vice with
221. 10:53virtue making us luminous with
222. 10:56love as the work of Divine Mercy
223. 10:59progresses our capacity to love and
224. 11:01forgive others will be purified and
225. 11:05expand and will and our will for
226. 11:08eagerness to engage in The Works of
227. 11:10Mercy compassion such as caring for the
228. 11:12poor welcoming The Stranger consoling
229. 11:15those who are
230. 11:18sorrowful because when we begin to work
231. 11:20with Mercy we ourselves become
232. 11:23instruments of God's grace in others PE
233. 11:25in other people's lives let me close
234. 11:28with a quote from Sister faa's diary in
235. 11:31which she recorded these words words
236. 11:34that the Lord spoke to her listen
237. 11:38carefully let the greatest Sinners Place
238. 11:41their trust in my
239. 11:43Mercy they have the right before all
240. 11:46others to trust in the abyss of my
241. 11:49Mercy my daughter write about my Mercy
242. 11:52towards tormented
243. 11:55Souls Souls that make an appeal to my
244. 11:58Mercy Delight
245. 11:59me to such Souls I grant even more
246. 12:03Graces than what they ask I cannot
247. 12:06punish the greatest sinner if he makes
248. 12:08an appeal to my compassion but on the
249. 12:12contrary I justify him in my
250. 12:14unfathomable and inscrutable
251. 12:17Mercy before I come as a just judge I
252. 12:21first open wide the door of my Mercy how
253. 12:26beautiful thank you Lord thank you for
254. 12:29your mercy and your
255. 12:31forgiveness as we bring as we bring a
256. 12:34close to the Octave of Easter today it
257. 12:37is fitting to recall with gratitude what
258. 12:39God has done for us the entire event of
259. 12:43Jesus from his Incarnation and birth his
260. 12:46teaching and preaching of the Gospel to
261. 12:49his passion death and Resurrection
262. 12:51absolutely
263. 12:53everything is a gift of God's
264. 12:56mercy that we must give thanks for for
265. 13:00and that's exactly what we echo in the
266. 13:02responsorial psalm today Psalm 118 give
267. 13:05thanks to the Lord for he good his Mercy
268. 13:09endures forever
269. 13:28amen
270. 13:36I believe in one God Father Almighty