Tag: mercy
To become ever fully human
I sense keenly how Your divine Blood is circulating in my heart; I have not the least doubt that Your most pure love has entered my heart with Your most sacred Blood. I am aware that You are dwelling in me, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, or rather I am aware that… Read More ›
Love’s language
Eternal God, Goodness itself, whose mercy is incomprehensible to every intellect, whether human or angelic, help me, your feeble child, to do Your holy will as You make it known to me. I desire nothing but to fulfill God’s desires. Lord, here are my soul and my body, my mind and my will,my heart and… Read More ›
Pope Francis: “God Is Greater Than Our Sin!”
Immerse yourself in the ocean of God’s mercy and find the one thing we all truly need in life Aleteia: — God’s love is an ocean of infinite mercy and forgiveness, in which even our worst sins can be completely washed away, Pope Francis said today. Concluding his catecheses on mercy in the Old Testament… Read More ›
Jesus shows us the Father
The Model of Peter and Judas When reading the ‘Last Discourse’ in the Gospel of John, there is a very interesting dynamic in how Jesus related to Peter and Judas. Jesus was greatly distressed over what Judas was about to do and I would believe over Peter as well. With Judas before he left Jesus… Read More ›
Compassion and Beneficence (Our True-North)
“The world today is closer together and adherents of non-Christian religions live among us. In this situation, for the sake of understanding and peaceful coexistence, it is necessary to take a look over the fence of our own cultural context into the world of religions. In the process, we ascertain that compassion and beneficence are… Read More ›
Purity of heart, failure, listening, confession and healing
Transference: the shift of emotions, especially those experienced in childhood, from one person or object to another, especially the transfer of feelings about a parent to an analyst. I enjoy my position in our retreat house… I like people. Yet working with the public has made me aware of deeper regions of my soul, which… Read More ›
The beginning of the Year-Of-Mercy (Mercy/Wrath)
What is the essence of mercy? Or what is Infinite-Mercy? Sometimes when we meditate on how people express mercy, particularly loving parents; it may give us a small inkling into this mystery. Wrath is also an interesting concept that is often confused with the human emotions of rage and anger. While anger can be… Read More ›
That faith finds expression in concrete everyday action
The spiritual and corporal works of mercy, the pontiff said, “remind us that faith finds expression in concrete everyday actions meant to help our neighbors in body and spirit: by feeding, visiting, comforting and instructing them. On such things will we be judged, —(Pope Francis) People are afraid of the concept of judgment. One reason… Read More ›
Forgive like Jesus, don’t accuse like the devil, pope tells Capuchins
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Confessors have two choices: to be like Jesus who readily forgave sins or like the devil who always condemns, Pope Francis said. “You can either do the work of Jesus, who forgives, by giving your lives in prayer (and) through many hours seated there or you do the work of the… Read More ›
Pope calls for concrete acts of mercy this Lent
Vatican City, Jan 26, 2016 / 04:37 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his 2016 Lenten message, Pope Francis called the faithful to place special emphasis on the spiritual and corporal works of mercy this Lent, taking into account the current Jubilee Year of Mercy. “God’s mercy transforms human hearts; it enables us, through the experience of… Read More ›