Both His Wounds and His Peace

Friends, peace be with you—an echo of the words of the risen Jesus in our Gospel for the Second Sunday of Easter, also called Mercy Sunday. Christ gives his disciples the gift of shalom (peace). But there’s an exceptionally important juxtaposition here: He also shows them his wounds, a sign of humanity’s own sin and dysfunction. It’s not one or the other, his peace or his wounds; it’s both. To get this wrong is to get a lot of Christianity wrong.

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Both His Wounds and His Peace is an episode from Bishop Robert Barron’s Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies by Bishop Robert Barron.

This episode is 14:57 long.

This episode was published on Apr 8, 2026.

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