Our love makes earth a paradise...

"Let us join together and go to Jesus in the tabernacle. 

Before him I feel myself as exalting; 

I am with Jesus, I am before my Love. 

Thus the tabernacle opens, the Seraphim bow." 

 St. Gemma Galgani

 “The Blessed Sacrament is the magnet of souls. 

There is a mutual attraction between Jesus and the souls of men. 

Mary drew Him down from heaven.  

Our nature attracted Him rather than the nature of angels.  

Our misery caused Him to stoop to our lowness.  

Even our sins had a sort of attraction for the abundance 

of His mercy and the predilection of His grace.  

Our repentance wins Him to us.  

Our love makes earth a paradise to Him; 

and our souls lure Him as gold lures the miser, 

with irresistible fascination.” 

Fr. Frederick William Faber

Painting: Arthur Cardosa

Jesus, I trust in You!...

  “Let your heart ever belong to God through 

purity of intention, attachment to His love, 

and confidence in His divine mercy. 

… You must reach the point where 

Jesus is sufficient to you.”

 - St. Peter Julian Eymard

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 Divine Mercy Sunday 

"Let no one mourn that he has fallen 

again and again; for forgiveness 

has risen from the grave." 

- St John Chrysostom

Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (#10):

"Especially from the Eucharist,

grace is poured forth upon us
as from a fountain."

First Mass of St John of Malta

 "O what awesome mysteries 

take place during Mass! ... 

One day we will know 

what God is doing for us in each Mass, 

and what sort of gift He is preparing in it for us.  

Only His divine love could permit 

that such a gift be provided for us ... 

this fountain of life gushing forth 

with such sweetness and power (914) ...

"O living Host, my one and only strength, 

fountain of  love and mercy, 

embrace the whole world, fortify faint souls.  

Oh, blessed be the instant and the moment 

when Jesus left us His most merciful Heart!" (223).

St Maria Faustina Kowalska

Diary: Divine Mercy in my Soul

Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am faint;

O Lord, heal me, for my bones are in agony. 

 Psalm 6:2
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   "No traveling soul can worthily love its God, but when this soul

does everything it possibly can, and trusts in divine mercy, 

why should Jesus reject it?  Didn't He command us to love God in

accordance with our strength?  When you have given and

consecrated everything to God, why do you fear?" 

 St Padre Pio (1916) 

“Trust the past to the mercy of God, 

the present to His Love and the 

future to His Providence. ”- St. Augustine

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 "Pray with great confidence, with confidence based upon 

the goodness and infinite generosity of God and upon the 

promises of Jesus Christ. God is a spring of living water 

which flows unceasingly into the hearts of those who pray."

 St. Louis de Montfort

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Divine Mercy Sunday Reflection 2020 - YouTube (Fr Michael Gaitley)

Click here: The Chaplet of Divine Mercy in Song (complete) - YouTube
Click here: Pope John Paul II's Divine Mercy Sunday Homily (2001)

This priest helped spread the Divine Mercy devotion

Jesus, I trust in You!

Rightly devoted... (Easter Saturday)

  "You've got to pray to Our Lady.  

When you lose devotion to Our Lady 

you're out there with the wolves." 

 Mother Angelica

 

"Do you, then, be also careful always to join to 

your daily visit to the most Blessed Sacrament

a visit to the most holy Virgin Mary in some church,

or at least before a devout image in your own house.  

If you do this with tender affection and confidence,

you may hope to receive great things from this 

most gracious Lady, who, as St Andrew of Crete says, 

always bestows great gifts on those 

who offer her even the least act of homage."

St Alphonsus Ligouri
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Divine Mercy Novena Day #9
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Paradox of love... (Easter Friday)

"We know that God makes all things work together

for the good of those who love him, who have been 

called according to his decree." - Romans 8:28

"By a beautiful paradox of Divine love,

God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation 

and our life.  We have slain Him; we have nailed Him 

there and crucified Him; but the Love in His 

eternal heart could not be extinguished.

He willed to give us the very life we slew;

to give us the very Food we destroyed;

to nourish us with the very Bread we buried,

and the very Blood we poured forth.

He made our very crime into a happy fault;

He turned a Crucifixion into a Redemption;

a Consecration into a Communion;

a death into Life Everlasting."

Ven Fulton J Sheen

Divine Mercy Novena Day #8
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Two-pronged path - to Christ... (Easter Thursday)

    ...it is I myself.  Touch me and see... 

Luke 24:39a

 

"Those who are called to recognize the risen Jesus 

do so by following the same two-pronged path:  

by the sacrament of Jesus' Body 

and that of His Word, touching Jesus' 

Body and understanding the Scriptures.  

These two sacraments, in a mysterious way, 

contain the risen One and at the same time in every 

Eucharist make Him present to all who believe.

How could we ever believe if Jesus Himself 

did not take the initiative to make it happen?  

How would we recognize Jesus 

in the sacrament of His Body and Blood 

if He Himself did not invite us to do this and if He did not 

tenderly wound our heart at the moment we receive Him?  

How would we find the risen One in His Word 

if He Himself did not open our mind and set our heart 

on fire every time He spoke to us through Scriptures?  

In our own heart, which leaps up with joy, 

we recognize Jesus, the Jesus Who is risen 

and still lives, even in our midst."

Dom Andre Louf (+2010)
Abbot - 35 years  - Cistercian monastery 
of Mont-des-Cats, France
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Divine Mercy Novena Day #7
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