Thursday, October 21, 2010

A very good resource

I rarely watch television with any kind of interest unless it is college football (PAC 10) or EWTN programming. So I am frequently searching the web for something new to give me ideas for my blog entries. Tonight, after watching a really interesting lecture/sermon by Father Robert Barron on EWTN, I logged onto his website, wordonfire.org , and heard a marvelous lecture on Why Prayer Matters .

The lecture runs about 47 minutes, so be prepared to listen that long. It was so interesting though that I was surprised the time had passed so quickly. Father Barron has dozens of these lectures, sermons, and short essays on his website. They are really easy to access and theologically sound. Have a listen!

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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".