Monday, May 23, 2011

A great entry, and a profound response

Sister Mary Martha has the best take on the non-event of last weekend that I've found yet. For Catholics, all of this 'rapture' nonsense should at least get us motivated to examine our consciences daily (a good time for me is right after my evening rosary and before I go to bed) and go to confession as often as necessary (which for me is as often as POSSIBLE).

I thought one of the comments (by 'womanNshadows') to Sister Mary Martha's blog was quite profound:

"so many lost people in this world clinging to anything they hear, putting their faith in words that are not His words, the words of Jesus. if only they could put their faith in Him and not someone standing directly in front of them, someone who is actually blocking their path to the light."

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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".