Tuesday, February 23, 2010

A confession

I am sooooo sorry! I have been so into my job and myself that I completely forgot to wish Sarah a happy birthday on the 18th and then I forgot to call Alicia and wish HER a happy birthday today!!! I think what threw me off is the fact that they celebrated their birthdays on the weekend prior up at the cabin, and I was in Lodi that day getting commissioned as a Eucharistic minister. But that's not an excuse. I have never neglected to tell them on the actual dates of their births just how much I love them until this year. I feel really bad about it. And at the time I am writing this in my hotel room in Fresno, it's much too late to call Alicia, for fear of waking Lily. So, girls, I am sorry. You know I love you both so much my heart aches when something like this occurs. Please forgive me.

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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".