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Sunday, February 13th 2005 . 
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Sunday, February 13th 2005 .
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are not only to receive the mercy of God, but to use it by being merciful
to others through our actions, our words, and our prayers by practicing
the Corporal Works of Mercy - feeding the hungry, giving drink to those
who thirst, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless, comforting the
prisoner, visiting the sick, burying the dead. The Spiritual Works of Mercy
are teaching the ignorant, praying for the living and dead, correcting
sinners, counselling those in doubt, consoling the sorrowful, bearing wrongs
patiently, and forgiving wrongs willingly. The Lord wants us to do these
works of mercy because even the strongest faith is useless without works.
In 1935 Sr. Faustina wrote
for her Spiritual Director: "The time will come when this work which God
so commends,
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Prayer for Today
"Divine Mercy I beg of You to protect all those helpless children who are physically and sexually abused, especially by those whose duty it is to guide and protect them on earth. Send Your enveloping cloak of Mercy and wrap it around those poor children and enfold them in Your love and protection. Send forth Your rays of blood and water to cleanse and renew the souls of those who perpetrate these vile acts of satan. Let there be a way to get Your powerful Image of Divine Mercy into the homes of these sad families, from where graces will flow as You promise, and they shall be renewed. O Blood and Water which gushed from the heart of Jesus as a fount of Mercy for us, we trust in You. Amen" Chaplet of the Divine Mercy and the Novena to the Divine Mercy << Previous Day >> || << Next Day >> (Many of the reflections on each page are used with the kind permission of United Christian Broadcastors (UCB) from their FREE daily devotional - The Word for Today. They allow the publication of 52 of their passages per year and I find their messages apt and though-provoking for the times we live in.) |
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Travel on my journeys to two of Canada's most famous Catholic Shrines - Saint Anne de Beaupré and Cap de la Madeleine, both on the shores of the Saint Lawrence river in Quebec. Finally I welcome you to come with me to see a little of Medugorje, a peaceful haven in a war-torn country - Bosnia Herzogonia.
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