Our Lady Of Lourdes Podcast

The Discomfort of Failure | Fr. Sean's Homily | 3rd Sunday of Easter | 05.1.2022 Today’s Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/050122.cfm “Failure is Not Final.”—Fr. Sean Conroy “Jesus, I go to confession over and over again for the same sins. I’m still struggling with gossip. Or Internet use. Or pride and vanity. And I come to confess them, but I feel like a failure. I hope this doesn’t cripple you to the point that you no longer pursue the Lord. Because, your failure is not final.”—Fr. Sean Conroy “How could it be that He [the Messiah] falls? How could it be that he seems like a total failure, and then he dies?” “The good news is that that failure was not final.” —Fr. Sean Conroy “Through Jesus’s resurrection, he shows us that death—failure—is not final.” —Fr. Sean Conroy John 21: Epilogue to the Gospel of John https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/21 Meant to be seen as parallel to Luke 5: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/5 6 When they had done this, they caught a great number of fish an