July 2016
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what’s inside live
4 Exceptional examples of mercy
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Living Word
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Forgive and be set free
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St Pope John Paul II
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Mediaview 20 Learn mercy through your falls
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love
Is God mercy?
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Everything is mercy
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It is not easy to entrust oneself to God's mercy, because it is an abyss beyond our comprehension. But we must! ... "Oh, I am a great sinner!" "All the better! Go to Jesus: He likes you to tell him these things!" He forgets, He has a very special capacity for forgetting. He forgets, He kisses you, He embraces you and He simply says to you: "Neither do I condemn you; go, and sin no more".
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WORLD WELTJUGENDTAG YOUTH DAY
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Official WYD Pilgrim Prayer God, merciful Father, in your Son, Jesus Christ, you have revealed your love and poured it out upon us in the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, We entrust to you today the destiny of the world and of every man and woman”. We entrust to you in a special way young people of every language, people and nation: guide and protect them as they walk the complex paths of the world today and give them the grace to reap abundant fruits from their experience of the Krakow World Youth Day. Heavenly Father, grant that we may bear witness to your mercy. Teach us how to convey the faith to those in doubt, hope to those who are discouraged, love to those who feel indifferent, forgiveness to those who have done wrong and joy to those who are unhappy. Allow the spark of merciful love that you have enkindled within us become a fire that can transform hearts and renew the face of the earth. Mary, Mother of Mercy, pray for us. Saint John Paul II, pray for us. Saint Faustina, pray for us.
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Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. Blessed Mother Teresa
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Christ on the Cross Asked the Father’s forgiveness for those who’d crucified Him. While dying, nailed to the cross, He said:
“Father forgive them, for they know not what they’ve done.”
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St Maria Goretti At the age of 14, forgave the man who stabbed fourteen times and attempted to rape her. While in hospital after the incident:
“I forgive him and I want him to be in paradise with me some day.”
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Bp Nikolai Forgave the soldiers who kept him imprisonned in the Dachau Concentration Camp. While he was being tortured, he prayed:
“Bless my enemies, O Lord. Enemies have driven me into Your embrace more than friends have. Friends have bound me to earth, enemies have loosed me from earth and have demolished all my aspirations in the world.”
1981
St Pope John Paul II Forgave the man who shot him and gave him a gift of a silver rosary. After visiting the assassin in prison, he said:
“I spoke to him as a brother who I have pardonned, and who has my complete trust...We all need to be forgiven by others, so we must all be ready to forgive. Asking and granting forgiveness is something profoundly worthy of every one of us.” –9–
Luke 6:27-37 But I say to you that listen, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. If anyone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from anyone who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt. Give to everyone who begs from you; and if anyone takes away your goods, do not ask for them again. Do to others as you would have them do to you. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven;
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Living Word
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Forgive and Be Set Free by BILL GAULTIERE
How to Forgive
Feel your Hurt
Forgiveness is a process. There are feelings to work through. Attitudes to adjust. Prayers to pray. New capacities for love to develop.
You can’t heal what you don’t feel! If you’ve been violated then you’ve been hurt. Whether your hurt is loss, rejection, embarrassment, insecurity, or something else, find someone safe to verbalise your pain to and seek God’s comfort through your friend. This is the heart of the forgiveness process.
Look to God God is the author of forgiveness. It’s His mercy and grace and strength through Jesus Christ that you need. And you can start to participate in His gift when you decide with God’s help to “Forgive as the Lord forgave you” (Colossians 3:13).
Go with the Process Forgiveness is a like a merry-go-round. Hop on at any point and the music will play and you’ll get a full ride. Being forgiven by God, forgiving others, forgiving yourself, and being forgiven by another person are the four horses on the “forgiveness-go-around.” Whichever horse we get on first, we’ll quickly realize that we won’t make real progress until we appreciate that we’re forgiven by God through trusting Christ. Receiving God’s forgiveness helps you to forgive others and extending forgiveness to others helps you to ask for the forgiveness that you need. So jump in the process and it’ll get easier the longer you stay with it.
Set Boundaries Are you susceptible to be wronged again in a similar way by the same person or someone else? Jesus set boundaries, always in love for others, but also to care for his own love relationship with the Father. We need to learn from him.
Entrust Justice to God Ultimately, forgiveness means to let God be God. He alone is the Righteous One with the right and the capacity safely to judge and punish sin. The story of the woman caught in adultery recorded in John 8:111 is a good example of this. And as the Apostle Paul taught us, “Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: `It is mine to avenge; I will repay,’ says the Lord” (Romans 12:19). Praying an angry Psalm can helps you to feel your emotions, share with God, and leave justice to God.
Deal with your Anger
Pray for your Enemy
It’s natural and appropriate to be angry when someone sins against you. I was angry at my neighbour whose driving habits endangered my kids and got me stuck with the week’s garbage still in the cans. But what to do with the anger? Ignore it and I’m not protecting my kids and my garbage is going to pile up. Repress it and I’d get depressed and eventually I could start to become negative, bitter, and isolated. Turn it against myself and I’d feel bad that I was making an issue of it and I’d try to not feel or need anything. React by cussing out my neighbor or parking in front of his garbage cans! and I’d just cause more damage by escalating the conflict. Instead, I let my anger point me to my underlying feelings – fear for my children’s safety and the need to have our garbage picked up. And I used the anger – tempered by love – to alert me to the need to deal with the situation. So with God’s help I “spoke the truth in love” (Ephesians 4:15) to my neighbour by asking him to watch for my children and to please park somewhere else on garbage day.
I was so surprised when I discovered the power in this! I knew that the Bible teaches us to bless and pray for our enemies (Proverbs 25:21-22, Matthew 5:37-48), but I didn’t realise how much it helped with forgiving. This was the key that helped me to forgive my rude, reckless neighbour. It’s hard to do at first, but it gets easier as you learn to place yourself in the Kingdom of God, drawing peace and strength from Christ. Eventually it makes all your relationships easier! Besides, it pleases God when we share his mercy with others. Remember, “When we were yet still sinners Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). When we appreciate how much God loves us, we’ll share His love and mercy with others. M Used with permission from Soul Shepherding.
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Photograph by CJ Johnson
God is the author of forgiveness. It’s His mercy and grace and strength through Jesus Christ that you need.
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God's mercy can make even the driest land become a garden, can restore life to dry bones (cf. Ez 37:1-14). ... Let us be renewed by God's mercy, let us be loved by Jesus, let us enable the power of his love to transform our lives too; and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish.
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We are not a sum of our
weaknesses and failures,
but of the Father’s love for us. St Pope John Paul II – 16 –
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LIVES OF THE SAINTS
St Pope
John Paul II
by SAMANTHA GIANNA
“From Mary we learn to surrender to God’s will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust when all hope is gone. From Mary we learn to trust her Son and Christ the Son of God.” Saint John Paul II was born in 1920 as Karol J. Wojtyla. Born in Poland, his early life was wrought with much sorrow, as he puts it “At twenty I had already lost all the people I loved, and even those I might have loved”. His older sister died before he was born and his mother who he was very close to died when he was eight. Four years later his older brother died. Then Karol’s father, his sole carer, was killed when he was 20. As he suffered through the Nazi oppression of WWII and the grief of losing everyone dear to him, Karol transformed his deep sorrow into a deep spiritual life. After the loss of his mother, Karol adopted the Virgin Mary as his mother and dedicated himself to her with the motto ‘Totus Tuus’, meaning ‘completely yours’. Upon completing high school, he enrolled in Krakow’s Jagiellonian University in 1938 and in a school for drama. However, the Nazi occupation forces closed the university the following year. Karol was then forced to work at a quarry and then in a chemical factory to avoid deportation to Germany. In the factory, he would work long hours and still make time for prayer and morning Mass. Often his co-workers would find him kneeling at midday as he prayed the Angelus. Other times they would mock him and throw items at him as he knelt in a quiet corner in meditation. In 1942, feeling a call to the priesthood, he began studying at the clandestine (underground) major seminary of Krakow. He was also an organiser for the “Rhapsodic Theatre”. In 1946, after the war, he was ordained in Krakow and was then sent to Rome where he attained a doctorate in theology in 1948. In 1958, Pope Pius XII appointed Father Wojtyła auxiliary bishop of Krakow. In 1964, Pope Paul VI appointed Bishop Wojtyła as Archbishop of Krakow and then made him a Cardinal in 1967. On 16 October 1978, Cardinal Wojtyła was elected
Pope. Even as a Pope, John Paul II did not hesitate to associate himself with everybody, no matter who they were or what their position. He saw every person as a reflection as God and remembered people even from the briefest of encounters. He was often seen cracking a few jokes with his Swiss Guards. Pope John Paul II believed in the message and power of forgiveness and mercy; by the grace of God he demonstrated this to the world. On 3 May 1981, in Saint Peter’s Square, an assassination attempt was made on Pope John Paul II. He was saved by the maternal hand of Our Lady which he saw push the fired bullet, thus allowing it to narrowly miss the critical blood vessels of the heart. Another bullet was fired into his abdomen. In the ambulance on the way to emergency surgery, Pope John Paul II forgave his would-be assassin, Agca. He also visited Agca in prison in 1983 and heard his confession. Among many achievements, Pope John Paul II’s great legacies include establishing World Youth Day and the Feast of Divine Mercy Sunday. In 1985, Pope John Paul II announced the institution of World Youth Day and held the first official WYD in 1986. Millions of youth from around the world still continue to attend World Youth Day. No other Pope in history as met as many people as Pope John Paul II. He was instrumental in establishing the Feast of Divine Mercy Sunday. John Paul II designated the second Sunday of Easter to be Divine Mercy Sunday at the canonization of Saint Faustina in 2000. Pope John Paul II died on the vigil of Divine Mercy Sunday, 2005. He was buried in the crypt of Saint Peter’s Basilica. His successor Pope Benedict XVI beatified Pope John Paul II in 2011. He was the canonised by Pope Francis on Divine Mercy Sunday 2014 and is remembered as the pope of the family. M St Pope John Paul II’s feast day is 22 October.
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Parousia Media presents Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves by Jason Evert Although there are countless ways to study Saint John Paul the Great, the most direct route is by entering the man’s heart. Discover the five greatest loves of Saint John Paul II, through remarkable unpublished stories about him from bishops, priests, his students, Swiss Guards, and others. Mining through a mountain of papal resources, Jason Evert has uncovered the gems and now presents the Church a treasure chest brimming with the jewels of the saint’s life. In a leap of great faith, during the Nazi occupation, St Pope John Paul II lay on the ground of the room he was in in the shape of a cross and prayed. The Nazis shot every person in every other room. They did not enter the room he was in. Communist spies kept an eye on him and his response was to call them his guardian angels, causing him to live a life of even greater prayer, devotion and piety. He often went on camping trips, preaching in the mountains. He was approved by the communists to be a Bishop because they thought he was weak and not a threat to them. And then became greatest Pope ever.
His Name is Mercy by Fr Ken Barker MGL In an age of ever increasing litigation we have become highly tuned to the need for justice. But is there room for mercy? In this book, Fr Ken Barker argues passionately that without mercy, justice will not be complete. He makes a compelling case for mercy through the use of stories about remarkable human beings who, faced with hurt and violence, have chosen to forgive, rather than to seek vengeance. He reminds us that mercy is the highest quality in the heart of God, and hence the most liberating attitude for any human heart. This book provides much needed teaching on forgiveness. With great clarity and sensitivity Fr Barker addresses the deep questions that arise in our hearts when we have been the victims of violence, or when we have been deeply hurt by a betrayal of trust. The stories offered here of those who have found a light in the darkness, and an inspiration towards the highest calling of any human being – to have mercy and to forgive. “At a time when the spirit of vengeance is abroad in many ways, it is hard to think of a more important theme than mercy.” – 20 –
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Learn
mercy through
your falls
PAUL ELARDE One major obstacle in your relationship with God could be your tendency to focus on your failures. Paul Elarde reflects in this edition of A Minute with Mary. When was the last time you spoke to your mother? Okay, so when was the last time you spoke to your heavenly mother? Do you realise that Mary knows and loves you even more than your earthly mother? Run to her like a child runs to its mother. And bring all your worries and miseries to her. Ask her to teach you how to love her and her son Jesus. Ask her to obtain for you the grace so you can allow God to love you. Sometimes we block God’s love because we focus too much on our failures and in doing so, we keep God at arm’s distance. Ask Mary to obtain for you the
grace to be able to focus on God’s love for you, not your failures. That way, you will experience his mercy and learn to trust him. When a child is learning to walk, the parent does not punish the child every time he falls over. No, the parent focuses on the child’s rising. They simply want the child to keep trying. Only then will the child make any progress. In fact, a child can only learn to walk through falling. God loves us the same way. He’s not interested in focusing on our failure, but wants us to focus on his love and mercy. In fact, we can only learn about his love and mercy through our falls. Oh Mary, teach us these truths. So we can love you and your son more everyday. Even when we fall. M Transcribed with permission from cradio.org.au.
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Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.
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Photograph by Dustin Lee “As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And he got up and followed him. And as he sat at dinner in the house, many tax-collectors and sinners came and were sitting with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, ‘Why does your teacher eat with taxcollectors and sinners?’ But when He heard this, He said, ‘Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means, “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.’” Mt 9, 9-13 Jesus commands the Pharisees to learn what he means by “mercy, not sacrifice’. In the gospels, there is often tension between Jesus and the Pharisees. The Pharisees knew the scriptures by heart and observed all of the religious traditions. In Luke 18, 9-14, Jesus tells a parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt: Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax-collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus, “God, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector. I fast twice
a week; I give a tenth of all my income.” But the taxcollector, standing far off, would not even look up to heaven, but was beating his breast and saying, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner!” I tell you, this man went down to his home justified rather than the other. In 2012, Fr Ken Barker published a book called ‘His name is Mercy’, where he describes that justice is not complete without mercy. Yet, as the Pharisees and most of us today realize, being merciful is not always easy. Jesus, in his perfect Love, challenges us in areas where ordinary people cannot reach. Fr Ken’s book addresses some questions such as; ‘How can I forgive when others don't deserve it?’, ‘Does forgiving mean excusing the one who offended me?’, or ‘How can I forgive when I feel anger in my heart?’. These are all very important questions that we come across numerous times in our journey. This year, Pope Francis also published a book called ‘The name of God is mercy’, where he affirms that the Church exists “to bring about an encounter with the visceral love of God’s mercy.” But how can we bring this about? Pope Francis indicates that “The most important thing in the life of every man and woman is not that they should never fall along the way. The important thing is to always get back up, not to stay on the ground "licking your wounds.” In other words,
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“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” Mother Teresa
we need to recognize that, yes, we are sinners and we fall, but, our God is Mercy. Similarly, other people are also sinners, and many times they seem to test us, but God is mercy! This is to recognize that God is infinitely greater than sin. No matter how dirty our sins make us, we are still created in the image and likeness of a God who is Love and Mercy. We are still capable of loving. Jesus was tortured to the point of being disfigured and unrecognisable because of humanity’s sins. Nevertheless, he still loved until his last words: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” It might be no surprise that both books speak about mercy. Yet, both books point to something deeper: Mercy is the name of God. Saying that mercy is God’s name is to say something very profound of God’s nature. In a similar way that God does not have love but God is Love, Fr Ken and Pope Francis affirm that God does not have mercy, He is Mercy. This might be what those Pharisees, who were righteous and just, couldn’t understand. Jesus challenged them to go deeper but they were not ready. Mother Theresa learned and lived this lesson as she said “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” Jesus is challenging you and me to go deeper today.
In his book, Pope Francis helps us with this challenge by suggesting practical ways of exercising mercy: “If we look at our situation, our society, it seems to me that there is no lack of circumstance or opportunity. What should we do for the homeless man camped in front of our home; for the poor man who has nothing to eat; the neighbouring family who cannot make it to the end of the month because the husband has lost his job? How should we behave with immigrants who have survived the crossing and who land on our shores? What should we do for the elderly who are alone, abandoned, and who have no one?” Heavenly Father, help me to look with the eyes of Jesus: eyes that see beyond my sin, and beyond the sin of others, so that they are able to recognize your image and likeness in each person I encounter – starting from me. I acknowledge that all my sins are a single drop in your infinite ocean of mercy. Teach me mercy and help me to stop wasting time judging so that I can spend more time loving. Amen. Your brother,
Antonio Moura
If you have any questions, you can email Antonio at antoniolandell@gmail.com.
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mercy
FR KEN BARKER MGL Everything in our life is dependent on the mercy of God. Fr Ken Barker MGL breaks open the readings from the 11th Sunday in ordinary time, using the insights of St Therese of Lisieux about the mercy of God and looking at examples of St Paul, St Mary Magdalene and King David. St Therese's message was very simple. She struggled in her day to find a way to God - as we all do. And she wanted a way that she felt confident in and when she looked at all the saints, she felt that the rugged way of ascetical practice and climbing up the mountain of holiness just seemed to be too hard. And she sought God. She said, 'there must be another way'. And so she had this revelation from God - the little way. And there's two parts to it. Very simply, firstly,
that God reveals to you (and you become deeply convinced of it) your littleness; of your weakness, your brokenness, your fragility, your sinfulness and your proneness to sin. That you come to acknowledge that there is a deep need in you for the Saviour. Because of yourself, you are left with nothing. And emptiness. The second part, is that you throw yourself (because you know your true condition, and you're standing honestly before God) fully and utterly upon his mercy. You simply give yourself confidently to God. Confident in the mercy that he has shown to us in Jesus, who hung on the cross for our sake. And she said that's the path to union with God.[...] Something that can happen to us, is that we don't just cover up our sins but in our true condition before God, we can sort of try to make ourselves worthy before God in our own strength. We can strive for perfection in our own strength and by our own efforts.
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This is what St Paul calls in the second reading, the 'perfection that comes from the law'. So instead of acknowledging my weakness, and my need for the help of God, and my need for His saving grace in my life, and that only by His help can transform and change me into His likeness, I rather try to climb up the ladder of holiness by myself. And I keep falling off it. I can get distressed and anxious about that, rather than acknowledging from the very beginning my own weakness, my helplessness; as St Therese of Lisieux suggests, and cry out to God for Him to bring His saving power so I can cooperate with Him and turn to Jesus; crucified especially, because that's why He died on the cross, for our sake. That's what Paul is telling us in the bible - where he says, 'It's not I who live, rather it's Christ who lives in me, and now I live by faith in the son of God who has loved me and sacrificed Himself for my sins; who has loved me and sacrificed himself for me. I live by that faith.' Paul says, 'I no longer live by seeking perfection by the law, because that doesn't save me. But I rather live by faith in Jesus Christ. And faith in what Jesus has done for me on the cross when He shared the last drop of His blood for my sake.' Now all of what I'm saying here comes together into the gospel. [...] We have this beautiful presentation of St Mary Magdalene who is weeping at the feet of Jesus. She's full of sorrow for her sin, but even moreso, she knows she's been forgiven by the grace of God. You see, we're not the ones who are perfect, we're simply the ones who have been forgiven. And when we gather here we don't gather as the ones who are the most virtuous, and looked on the scumbags out there who aren't, we gather as the weak and broken sinful people of God, who've been gathered under mercy once we were outside the mercy of God, now we've been brought into the mercy of God. And we gather with great gratitude for the mercy that God has shown to us. It's only because of the redeeming power of Jesus Christ that I'm here. That's for sure. Now I think of the sin of my life - that it's by His grace that I have been saved and all of us are in the same position. It's only by the grace of God that we are here. And so we can't be like the pharisees in the gospel who take the superior position before this woman who comes in - she has a bad name in the town, in fact, that means she was a prostitute. Everybody knew it, and here she is, breaking in on this party and they're all looking down their noses at her and pointing the finger and sniggering. Jesus knows their hearts. They've covered up all their sin - they can't acknowledge their need for the saviour, that's the pharisaical position. And also their position is that they live by the law, not by the salvation that's come. And so they think that they've made themselves right before God by just living according to the law. They haven't discovered the living relationship with God in Jesus Christ and He is right there before them. But they're shut out from it. Because of their self righteousness.
They've tried to stand and be superior on higher ground and look down on this woman, but you see she's the one who's touched the heart of the Lord by her tears. And she's the one who has already experienced in her heart the knowledge of His forgiveness. And she's the one who's pouring out her tears at His feet. She's the one who's welcomed the Lord whereas Simon who brought the Lord into his house had not gone through the welcoming rituals he should have gone through (which was of course to wash the feet and pour oil on the guest's head and to greet the guest with a kiss). He'd done none of that and Jesus points that out. Whereas this woman, there she is, she's weeping at His feet, washing His feet with her tears. And she's anointing His feet with the ointment [...]and she's kissing Him - kissing the feet. It's a wonderful extravagant gesture of gratitude and of open heartedness to the Lord that comes when we know that we've been forgiven by God. It's a gesture of great love that comes to the heart. And this is what we too have experienced at some time and in some way and to some degree. And that the Lord would have us experience so much more, that we would know His saving love in our lives. That we'd know His forgiveness in our hearts. That we would know His mercy upon us because we've put our trust fully in his mercy, as she has done. She's right out there - in trusting fully in the mercy of God. She's acknowledged the truth of her condition which was pretty miserable, but the Lord's not put off by that. He's delighted and rejoices in her because she's come to Him in honesty. She's laid it all out before Him. Just as she is. And while she's scorned and derided by others (not by the Lord, there's no condemnation in the heart of God), she's welcomed and she's given that beautiful grace of forgiveness. And so Jesus says to the pharisees, [...] 'If two people owe a debt, and one is a large amount of money, and the other is only a small amount of money, and that debt is just cancelled, which one will be the most grateful?' The one who's had the bigger debt cancelled. It's because Mary Magdalene's been forgiven much, and many sins have been forgiven her, she is loved much; that's how she has that love in her heart that she is pouring out her tears of gratitude on His feet. And the anointing Him with reverence, and kissing him, with great love, because she has been forgiven much. And that's how we are - we're not perfect but we are forgiven, to the degree that we know that deep within ourselves, the degree that we can place our full trust in the mercy of God when we know our weakness and brokenness and sinfulness, we trust His mercy and we repent and turn back to Him with all our hearts and that's constantly going on in our lives, to that degree, we'll be filled with gratitude. M Extract from cradio.org.au, used with permission.
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Today I call on you to go out into the world with my gift of mercy. Though blighted and lost, I do not wish to punish humanity, instead, tend to it and lift it from its suffering and into my merciful heart.
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