{"id":125,"date":"2025-03-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/?p=125"},"modified":"2025-04-01T22:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:33:10","slug":"mercy-awaits-come-home-daily-readings-march-22-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Mercy Awaits: Come Home | Daily Readings | March 22, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lent is calling, and March 22, 2025\u2014Saturday of the Second Week\u2014warms the heart: mercy, compassion, homecoming. These readings pull us in\u2014forgiveness, healing, love. Ready to return? Here\u2019s the grace: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>First Reading (Micah 7:14-15, 18-20): God\u2019s mercy buries sins deep. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Psalm (Psalm 103): \u201cThe Lord is kind\u201d\u2014He lifts and forgives. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gospel (Luke 15:1-3, 11-32): A father runs\u2014lost sons live again. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Our short reflection glows\u2014Lent is your time to come home. Whether you\u2019ve strayed or stayed, this one\u2019s your embrace. Watch now, and let\u2019s rejoice together!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Mercy Awaits: Come Home | Daily Readings | March 22, 2025\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jg4kHtHMp2U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lent is calling, and March 22, 2025\u2014Saturday of the Second Week\u2014warms the heart: mercy, compassion, homecoming. These readings pull us in\u2014forgiveness, healing, love. Ready to return? Here\u2019s the grace: Our short reflection glows\u2014Lent is your time to come home. Whether you\u2019ve strayed or stayed, this one\u2019s your embrace. Watch now, and let\u2019s rejoice together!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christus-dominus-bread-of-life","category-daily-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}