Thursday, November 26, 2009

All that is necessary is that we open our hearts and minds

Friday, November 27, 2009
The Sorrowful Mysteries
Daniel 7:2-14
Daniel 3:75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81
Luke 21:29-33

The individual prayers of the Mass are beautiful.

One in particular that is both challenging and reassuring is "May He make us an everlasting gift to You."

Most cultures use words as a primary tool for information. We follow up words with action, but it is the word that is significant. If then we are to be formed as an everlasting gift for God, what better method than turning to scripture as a primary guide.

In the gospel Christ points out, "the heavens and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away." (see Luke 21:33)

Advent is almost upon us, when we will celebrate the coming of the Word as flesh and blood. Let us enter the season with the realization that the Word can inform our "flesh and blood" if we but open our hearts and minds.

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"I demand from you deeds of mercy, which are to arise out of love for Me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse or absolve yourself from it.

I am giving you three ways of exercising mercy toward your neighbor:
the first — by deed, the second — by word, the third — by prayer. In these three degrees is contained the fullness of mercy, and it is an unquestionable proof of love for Me. By this means a soul glorifies and pays reverence to My mercy.

Many souls ... are often worried because they do not have the material means with which to carry out an act of mercy. Yet spiritual mercy, which requires neither permissions nor storehouses, is much more meritorious and is within the grasp of every soul.

If a soul does not exercise mercy somehow or other, it will not obtain My mercy on the day of judgment. Oh, if only souls knew how to gather eternal treasure for themselves, they would not be judged, for they would forestall My judgment with their mercy".