Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Something to do

Loyola Press has a fun (at least it was for me!) website where you find out who the saint is that shares some traits with you (if you're honest in answering). I came up with St Therese of Lisieux! Imagine that! Another one of these quizzes I took a couple of years ago told me I was more a St Justine Martyr type of individual. I guess it takes all kinds to make a world! And apparently God loves them all!

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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".