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Catholic TV Mass Online April 6, 2025: Fifth Sunday of Lent

Presider: Fr. Michael Wolfe Parish: All Saints, St. Martin de Porres, St. Michael, St. Rose Choir: Holy Family Text from the Gospel and Homily THE LORD BE WITH YOU. AND WITH YOUR SPIRIT. A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN. GLORY TO YOU O LORD. JESUS WENT TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. BUT EARLY IN THE MORNING HE ARRIVED AGAIN IN THE TEMPLE AREA AND ALL THE PEOPLE STARTED COMING TO HIM, AND HE SAT DOWN AND TAUGHT THEM. THEN THE SCRIBES AND THE PHARISEES BROUGHT A WOMAN WHO HAD BEEN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY AND MADE HER STAND IN THE MIDDLE. THEY SAID TO HIM, "TEACHER THIS WOMAN WAS CAUGHT IN THE VERY ACT OF COMMITTING ADULTERY. NOW IN THE LAW, MOSES COMMANDED US TO STONE SUCH WOMEN. SO WHAT DO YOU SAY?" THEY SAID THIS TO TEST HIM, SO THAT THEY COULD HAVE SOME CHARGE TO BRING AGAINST HIM. JESUS BENT DOWN AND BEGAN TO WRITE ON THE GROUND WITH HIS FINGER. BUT WHEN THEY CONTINUED ASKING HIM, HE STRAIGHTENED UP AND SAID TO THEM, "LET THE ONE AMONG YOU WHO IS WITHOUT SIN BE THE FIRST TO THROW A STONE AT HER." AGAIN HE BENT DOWN AND WROTE ON THE GROUND. AND IN RESPONSE, THEY WENT AWAY ONE BY ONE, BEGINNING WITH THE ELDERS. SO HE WAS LEFT ALONE WITH THE WOMAN BEFORE HIM. THEN JESUS STRAIGHTENED UP AND SAID TO HER, "WOMAN, WHERE ARE THEY? HAS NO ONE CONDEMNED YOU?" SHE REPLIED, "NO ONE SIR." THEN JESUS SAID, "NEITHER DO I CONDEMN YOU. GO AND FROM NOW ON DO NOT SIN ANY MORE." THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD. PRAISE TO YOU LORD JESUS CHRIST. I LIKE TO THINK OF LENT AS US FOLLOWING JESUS OUT INTO THE DESERT OR THE WILDERNESS AND IT'S THAT PLACE WHERE THERE'S NO WHERE TO HIDE. THERE'S NO ONE ELSE TO BLAME. THERE'S NO ONE THAT WE CAN SAY THAT WE'RE THE VICTIM OF, OR SITUATION. IT'S ME ALONE WITH GOD. NO WHERE TO HIDE. AND THEN THAT MEANS THAT I MUST BE HONEST WITH GOD. AND I DON'T KNOW WHY IT'S SO HARD FOR ME SOMETIMES BECAUSE GOD ALREADY KNOWS, DOESN'T HE? BUT WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH THIS LENTEN JOURNEY THAT I HOPE WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO EMBRACE AND LIVE OUT FULLY SO THAT THEN WE CAN ENTER INTO HOLY WEEK AND TO REALLY LIVE OUT WHAT IS THE CORE OF OUR FAITH. THAT JESUS THE SON OF GOD CAME, TOOK ON OUR FLESH, OFFERED HIMSELF IN SACRIFICE FOR US ON THE CROSS, BUT DIDN'T JUST DIE. HE THEN RESURRECTED. PAUL POINTS TO THAT IN OUR SECOND READING TODAY. HOW THAT'S WHAT INSPIRES HIM. THAT'S OUR HOPE. AND MY HOPE FOR US IS THAT WE CAN ENTER INTO HOLY WEEK TO FULLY GRASP WHAT IS OUR HOPE, OUR HORIZON, RESURRECTION IN JESUS. HAVING THAT HORIZON DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE WON'T HAVE PROBLEMS TODAY. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THIS, BUT THE WORLD ISN'T PERFECT. THERE IS DEATH, THERE IS SUFFERING, THERE IS INJUSTICE. BUT HAVING THE HOPE IN THE RESURRECTION IS A HORIZON TOWARDS WHICH WE CONTINUE GOING FORWARD. BUT IT STARTS WITH THAT BRAVE HUMILITY OF GOING OUT INTO THE DESERT AND RECOGNIZING THE THINGS ABOUT MYSELF THAT CAUSES INJURY IN MY RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AND WITH OTHERS. WE CALL THOSE THINGS, SINS. BUT WE DO SO BECAUSE IN THE END MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, IF I DON'T HAVE SIN, IF I DON'T BELIEVE I'M A SINNER, I DON'T NEED A SAVIOR. AND IF I DON'T ACKNOWLEDGE MY SINS THERE'S NO RESURRECTION. IT IS PRECISELY BECAUSE WE HOPE IN JESUS AND WHAT HE IS AND DOES FOR US THAT WE BRAVELY HAVE BEEN WORKING ON OURSELVES THESE ALMOST FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS SO THAT WE CAN ENTER MORE FULLY INTO HOLY WEEK REMIND OURSELVES WHAT IS OUR CHRISTIAN HOPE AND THEN HUMBLY CONTINUE FORWARD. RECOGNIZING THAT NONE OF US IS WITHOUT SIN BUT RATHER IT'S PRECISELY THERE THAT WE HAVE OUR HOPE. THAT JESUS COMES AND SAVES US. WE WHO ARE INDEED WITH SIN. www.HeartoftheNation.org