Sermons on “Mercy”
Being a Neighbor to Everyone
Monsignor Michael Billian: The lesson for us is to be people of compassion and mercy, to make it our business to lift people up, as opposed to tearing them down.
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Year of Mercy: Comfort the Sorrowful
Father Philip Smith: Our job is to just be there with people as a sign of hope, as a glimpse of the light that God can bring in those moments.
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Good Friday: Choosing to Help and Serve
Father Philip Smith: If we were there on Good Friday, would we have stepped up like Joseph and Nicodemus to care for Jesus’ body? It had been bruised and was hanging lifeless on the cross. Would we have worried what other people would think of us for wasting our time on such thankless work?
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Ash Wednesday: Sinners with a Savior
Father Philip Smith: What we do here this evening is the exact opposite as we literally rub dirt on our foreheads, as we rub ashes on our foreheads as a symbol of the fact that we don’t have everything together, that we’re not perfect.
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Year of Mercy: Admonish the Sinner
Monsignor Michael Billian: The underlying current of faith throughout this fishing encounter with Simon Peter and the disciples is the call of each of us to go forth into the deep waters of life to find the catch of souls that wander about.
View SermonWe’re called to be a real ambassador for mercy
Monsignor Michael Billian: We’re called to be modern day John the Baptizers in the world in which we live — in the midst of the people that we see every day — to be a real ambassador for mercy.
View SermonImmaculate Conception: The Yes of Mary
Monsignor Michael Billian: Now Mary said yes to the Lord without even knowing exactly what she was saying yes to. She wasn’t sure about what was going to happen.
View SermonJubilee Year: Refocusing our Lives and Thoughts on God
Father Philip Smith: We’re encouraged today, during this great jubilee year, to commit our entire lives to doing good, to give everything we have.
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