Father Anthony reflects on Luke 6:36 to explore how God’s unconditional love and forgiveness become the model for our own lives. Learn how to receive mercy through prayer—especially the Divine Mercy Chaplet—and how to extend mercy to others through acts of forgiveness and love.

Father Anthony uses the story of Abraham’s obedience to God to encourage us to have faith in God’s plan when he is calling us out of our comfort zones.

The readings for this homily: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/011526.cfm Why would God allow Israel to be defeated even while the Levites were carrying the Ark of the Covenant before the army into battle? And why would Jesus heal a leper — then sternly command him to tell no one? In this homily, Fr. Mark Baron, MIC, brings these unsettling questions together and shows that they reveal the same spiritual danger: presumption.