Remember to pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet at least on Good Friday through to 2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday)
as Christ requested.
Divine Mercy article separate. But here is the link to the Chaplet that I spoke of
http://thedivinemercy.org/message/devotions/praythechaplet.php
The Mercy of God to the Penitent
From a letter by Saint Maximus the Confessor, abbot
Christ forgives sinner |
So is was that Christ proclaimed that he had come to call
sinners to repentance, not the righteous, and that it was not the healthy who
required a doctor, but he sick. He
declared that he had come to loof for the sheep that was lost, and that is was
to the lost sheep of the house of Israel that he had been sent. Speaking more obscurely in the parable of the
silver coin, he tells us that the purpose of his coming was to reclaim the
royal image, which had been coated with the filth of sin. You can
be sure there is joy in heaven, he said, over one sinner who repents.
To give the same lesson he revived the man who, having
fallen into the hands of the brigands, had been left stripped and half-dead
from his wound; he poured wine and oil on the wounds, bandaged them, placed the
many on his own mule and brought him to an inn, where he left sufficient money
to have him cared for, and promised to repay any further expense on his return.
Again, he told of how the Father, who is goodness itself,
was moved with pity for his profligate son who returned and made amends by
repentance; how he embraced him, dressed him once more in the fine garments that
befitted his own dignity, and did not reproach him for any of his sins.
So too, when he found wandering in the mountains and hills
the one sheep that had strayed from God’s flock of a hundred, he brought it
back to the fold, but he did not exhaust it by driving it ahead of him. Instead, he placed it on his own shoulders
and so, compassionately, he restored it safely to the flock.
So also he cried out: Come
to me, all you that toil and are heavy of heat.
Accept my yoke, he said, by which he meant his commands, or rather,
the whole way of life that he taught us in the Gospel. He then speaks of a burden, but that is only
because repentance seems difficult. In
fact, however, my yoke is easy, he
assures us, and my burden is light.
Then again he instructs us in divine justice and goodness,
telling us to be like our heavenly Father, hold, perfect and merciful.
taken from the Liturgy of the Hours Wednesday, 3rd Week of Lent
Forgive,
he says, and you will be
forgiven.
Behave toward other people
as
you would wish them
to behave toward you.
taken from the Liturgy of the Hours Wednesday, 3rd Week of Lent
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