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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The readings for this homily: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/050626.cfm
The readings for this homily: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/120225.cfm
In Proverbs 8, Scripture reveals a tender mystery: before the world began, the Eternal Son “was beside Him… playing before Him at all times.” Before creation, before the angels, Jesus rejoiced in the Father’s presence with the freedom of a child. Fr. Anthony reminds us that this childlike joy is not optional—it is essential to the spiritual life. “Unless you become like little children, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven” (Mt 18:3).
Father Anthony reflects on John 19:1–5 — the haunting scene of Jesus scourged, crowned with thorns, and presented to the crowd with the words, “Behold the man,” revealing the depth of His humility and love as He silently bears humiliation and pain for our salvation, inviting us to gaze upon Him, recognize our own sin and suffering laid upon His shoulders, and respond not with indifference, but with repentance, gratitude, and trust in His mercy.
