You can watch Msgr. LaMorte’s homily from this morning’s Mass at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral here.
Msgr. LaMorte reminds us that there are times, like in today’s reading, that Jesus was intentionally provocative. By healing the withered hand of the man on the Sabbath, Jesus was trying to prove a point.
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