Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Exhaustion can make you stupid!

I was trying to figure out something quick for my blog because, quite frankly, I'm exhausted!

While watching TV with the family, a ad came on for some product or another at a good price. I don't know why, but a program I heard on the radio on my way home from Bakersfield came to mind--Mother Angelica Live Classics. She was taking calls from people who were reading their favorite prayers to her. The last prayer was written by someone who I think would be an outstanding patron saint for shoppers---......ready for it???? St. Francis de Sales!

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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".