22nd Sunday 2025 - Humility

Jesus teaches about humility, and paying attention to where we are. www.mercywithteeth.com #Catholic #homily #Scripture #GospelOfTheDay #mercywithteeth Sign up to have podcasts and blog posts emailed to you: https://ift.tt/ORQnqNp Give feedback at https://forms.gle/gGhujv39g43BUxmK6 Readings are found at https://ift.tt/HjlcvyT Great News: True Mercy Has Teeth: A Catholic Journey to Forgiveness and Healing is now available on Amazon
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21st Sunday 2025 - Disciple

The Gate to heaven is narrow, and requires following the Lord as a disciple. www.mercywithteeth.com #Catholic #homily #Scripture #GospelOfTheDay #mercywithteeth Sign up to have podcasts and blog posts emailed to you: https://ift.tt/kPpg39e Give feedback at https://forms.gle/gGhujv39g43BUxmK6 Readings are found at https://ift.tt/5KJsTlN Great News: True Mercy Has Teeth: A Catholic Journey to Forgiveness and Healing is now available on Amazon Direct from the Publisher, I set up a discount code valid until August 31 $29.95 $24.95 Hard cover https://ift.tt/YnzgxHm $20.99 $16.99 Paperback https://ift.tt/8vmaIML
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20th Sunday 2025 - Separated

Following Jesus Christ causes separation from those who do not believe. This is not a sin or a failure on our part, as long as we truly love our neighbor. www.mercywithteeth.com #Catholic #homily #Scripture #GospelOfTheDay #mercywithteeth Sign up to have podcasts and blog posts emailed to you: https://ift.tt/5ebYWBq Give feedback at https://forms.gle/gGhujv39g43BUxmK6 Readings are found at https://ift.tt/JIYXLoF Great News: True Mercy Has Teeth: A Catholic Journey to Forgiveness and Healing is now available on Amazon Direct from the Publisher, I set up a discount code valid until August 31 $29.95 $24.95 Hard cover https://ift.tt/XMHl0O3 $20.99 $16.99 Paperback https://ift.tt/GCDtRrJ
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Assumption 2025 - Blessed

The Blessed Mother is taken to Heaven, body and soul, showing her unique place as the Mother of God, but also give us hope and the model for what it to happen in our resurrection. www.mercywithteeth.com #Catholic #homily #Scripture #GospelOfTheDay #mercywithteeth Sign up to have podcasts and blog posts emailed to you: https://ift.tt/3UudhJa Give feedback at https://forms.gle/gGhujv39g43BUxmK6 Readings are found at https://ift.tt/xXLJodE Great News: True Mercy Has Teeth: A Catholic Journey to Forgiveness and Healing is now available on Amazon Direct from the Publisher, I set up a discount code valid until August 31 $29.95 $24.95 Hard cover https://ift.tt/lRI2NAH $20.99 $16.99 Paperback https://ift.tt/ZfXrMHI
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19th Sunday 2025 - Will

Our Lord tells us that He is going to come again, and to do His will. How can we know His will - through relationship with Him and the Church, and studying the Catechism and Church teaching. www.mercywithteeth.com #Catholic #homily #Scripture #GospelOfTheDay #mercywithteeth Sign up to have podcasts and blog posts emailed to you: https://ift.tt/c5ohCVD Give feedback at https://forms.gle/gGhujv39g43BUxmK6 Readings are found at https://ift.tt/Dc536q2 Great News: True Mercy Has Teeth: A Catholic Journey to Forgiveness and Healing is now available on Amazon and Direct from the Publisher. I have set up a discount code valid until August 31 $29.95 $24.95 Hard cover https://ift.tt/5YD6XbL $20.99 $16.99 Paperback https://ift.tt/NVjRptk
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A short excerpt from my book, "True Mercy Has Teeth"

In my chapter inviting the reader to examine memories, and ultimately seeking the Lord's healing, I reflect on Lamentations 3 (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/lamentations/3). It is a passage that is suggested for Masses of Christian Burial, because it invites the listener to trust in the Lord. But I think its beauty and power is larger.

The writer of Lamentations was no stranger to suffering. In chapter 3, his grief is so intense that he describes himself as filled with bitterness, cast into the dust, and unable to recall happiness. But then something changes. He pauses. He chooses to remember rightly: that the Lord’s mercies are not exhausted but are new every morning. 

That shift - from despair to hope - comes not from his circumstances changing, but from his memory being redirected to truth.

 

This is what the word in the New Testament for repentance, metanoia, really means. When we hear repentance in the Gospels, too often we think it is nothing more than turning away from sin. It is that, but so much more. It means to have a change of mind, not in the sense of a simple decision, but to see the world in a new way, to see it as God sees it. It means to put off the darkened intellect, to combat the concupiscences that tempt us, and to see the world as it truly is. It is to move from bad to good, and from good to God.

 

This “change of mind” is key to everything that follows in this book. Without a desire to be changed, there is no healing. And that healing begins with our memory, as the writer of Lamentations understood.

18th Sunday 2025 - Stewards

Our Lord is asked a to talk to someone about inheritance, and He takes the opportunity to speak on greed. Are we stewards of what the Lord has given? www.mercywithteeth.com #Catholic #homily #Scripture #GospelOfTheDay #mercywithteeth Sign up to have podcasts and blog posts emailed to you: https://ift.tt/fa7wnxN Give feedback at https://forms.gle/gGhujv39g43BUxmK6 Readings are found at https://ift.tt/JRUDrC4 Great News: True Mercy Has Teeth: A Catholic Journey to Forgiveness and Healing is now available on Amazon Direct from the Publisher, I set up a discount code valid until August 31 $29.95 $24.95 Hard cover https://ift.tt/E631PeS $20.99 $16.99 Paperback https://ift.tt/yJ0ki6a
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