His Passion And Our Cross - Mar 03 - Homily - Fr Dominic

[Music] is so here jesus is founding getting ready to have found his church and he's talking about all these negative things really bad things he's going to be suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and then we have to take up our cross crosses and follow jesus and deny ourselves and lose our life what's all this negativity all this negativity how can you how can you get followers and attract followers if you speak in all this negative language of course this isn't the only thing jesus says he says a lot of beautiful things too but he says these negative things because this is life this is reality there is sin there is evil there is wickedness there are bad people there are bad spirits around us and uh that's kind of characterizes a little bit of the lenten season that we do focus on the negative realities of sin and evil and our selfishness and how we need to mortify ourselves and carry our crosses and this is part of reality and it's it's not healthy to uh to ignore it to ignore sin to ignore our selfishness and need to to deny ourselves it's not healthy it's the full picture we will we will experience more peace and equilibrium or a kind of happiness when we when we realize all the truth because jesus embraces all that when he came he didn't get rid of suffering he didn't get rid of [Music] our concubines and tendency to sin he said this is how you deal with it mortify yourself take up your cross do what i did you know do what i did and embrace this and turn to me for help turn to the sacraments for help confession confess your sins look at your sins and root them out so this is our campaign our campaign this retreat of lent to do this to look at square in the face grab the bull grab the bull by the horns and don't run away and just you know fight the battle embrace fight sin fight the devil and do it with the grace of god and the sacraments that jesus gives us and trust that we will be victorious in jesus as he was victorious after 40 days on the mountain during the during his fast he was victorious over the devil because he called upon the word of the lord god he was faithful he was faithful to the to the end of the temptation and it was victorious over satan and we will too with jesus entirely with jesus not trusting ourselves through this lent not trusting ourselves at all [Music] but striving with all that we have and having that great hope that we will come out through the end a better a better soul a better person better christian more united to jesus more ready to bring good to the world [Music] [Music] me you

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Keywords: Podcasts, the Passion, Jesus Christ, Our Cross, Spirituality, Catholic, Fr. Dominic Murphy, Griswold, CT, Homily, Franciscans of the Immaculate, Christianity (Religion), Faith, god

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Length: 4min 39sec (279 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 03 2022