Note: This homily was given at the children’s Mass. The regular Sunday homily is written below this one.
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What happens when we knock over a bowl of cereal?
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The milk spills across the table.
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And what do we do in order to clean up the milk?
After saying, “Oh, darn!” We rush into the kitchen, grab a roll of paper towels and wipe it up!
I like Bounty, “the quilted quicker picker upper!”
It’ll absorb anything.
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Think of Jesus like a roll of Bounty paper towels.
In the Gospel, John the Baptist calls him, “the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world.”
Meaning, Jesus has come to clean up the mess we’ve made. All of those arguments at home, any lies we’ve told, those leftover grudges and feelings of greed from the holidays.
Jesus wants to wipe these sins away.
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By a show of hands, how many of us celebrated our First Reconciliation?
I wonder, have we gone since? Or are we in need of a good, cleansing confession?
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Jesus wants to wipe our sins away like a puddle of spilt milk, because he’s the, “quilted, quicker picker upper!”
Will we ask him to?