Opening Your Heart
Opening Your Heart
In this fourth episode of "Jubilee Journey Through Lent," Fr. Anthony Gramlich, MIC introduces the Spiritual Works of Mercy, highlighting how acts of tough love, instruction, counsel, and comfort can help us open our hearts to others, deepen our faith, and become true instruments of God’s mercy.
Join Father Anthony on this six-part video series designed to deepen your spiritual life during this holy penitential season. As we walk through Lent, Father Anthony explores how we can make our observance more fruitful and spiritually rewarding, especially in this Jubilee Year of Hope.
Drawing from the rich traditions of the Church — daily Mass, Scripture, the Rosary, and acts of mercy — Father Anthony will guide viewers on this path to renewal.
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Father Anthony reflects on this Beatitude in Matthew as a call for us to look for ways to show mercy to others each day.
The Gospel presents a man described as “full of leprosy.” Not partially wounded. Not mildly afflicted. Completely sick. And yet this is the man who is healed — because he approaches Jesus correctly.
Father Anthony Gramlich, MIC, explains that Scripture reveals three responses to spiritual leprosy. The first is pride: refusing to see one’s own sin while accusing everyone else. This leprosy cannot be healed because it denies the wound. The second is despair: seeing the sin clearly but believing mercy is impossible. This leprosy turns inward and never reaches the Physician.
