Sr. Faustina wrote in her diary that she began the Novena for the conversion of the whole world that all may recognize God's Mercy and that all souls may speak of His Goodness. Jesus said ...
“Mercy enables us to acknowledge and confront our weaknesses. It beckons us to turn away from sin and go back to Jesus,” she writes. We talk more about mercy and the jubilee year here.
The places that most need growth and strength and healing and renewal, that’s where Christ wants to love us particularly. And ...
This past week, while at worship, I heard a member of the preaching team share a moving sermon on mercy. Forty-nine years ago during my first interview with a church’s pastoral search committee, one ...
Jesus asked that the Feast of the Divine Mercy be preceded by a Divine Mercy Novena which would begin on Good Friday. "On each day of the novena you will bring to My heart a different group of ...
Jesus asks the certain lawyer a probing question. “So which of these three do you think was a neighbor to him who fell among the thieves?” Listen to his response… “He who showed mercy on ...
They tugged on his white and bushy leg to rescue him from the narrow trench. It was entirely his fault — the curious sheep dove in head first and got ...
but even more because he has experienced Jesus having mercy on him and choosing him as a disciple. As we pray in thanksgiving today for the church’s firm foundation on the rock of Peter’s ...
A more precise paraphrase for the Feb. 28 scene perhaps should read like this: “The moral leadership that the United States established in the trenches of WWI in 1917 and ‘18 and reaffirmed on the ...
When I see them, I give them a packet that contains a rosary, a pamphlet on how to pray the rosary, a Divine Mercy prayer card, miraculous medal, a Sacred Heart of Jesus badge, and a letter of ...