{"id":26418,"date":"2011-05-01T10:45:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T14:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/divine-mercy-jesus-bending-ove\/"},"modified":"2011-05-01T10:45:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T14:45:40","slug":"divine-mercy-jesus-bending-ove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/divine-mercy-jesus-bending-ove\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Mercy: Jesus bending over our humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Divine Mercy is a not a mere theological datum. It is another way of calling God, of meeting and loving God and living in relation to others. But is Divine Mercy? Blessed  John Paul II spoke of Divine Mercy in his canonization homily for Sister Maria Faustina Kowalska. She became a modern mirror for God’s tremendous love for all humanity. Saint Faustina reminds us that Mercy is crucial for everyone, just ask for the grace of Mercy. An excerpt:<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

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\"St<\/a>What will the years ahead bring us? What will man’s
\nfuture on earth be like? We are not given to know. However, it is certain that
\nin addition to new progress there will unfortunately be no lack of painful
\nexperiences. But the light of divine mercy, which the Lord in a way wished to
\nreturn to the world through Sr Faustina’s charism, will illumine the way for
\nthe men and women of the third millennium.<\/span><\/p>\n


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However, as the Apostles once did,
\ntoday too humanity must welcome into the upper room of history the risen
\nChrist, who shows the wounds of his Crucifixion and repeats:  Peace be
\nwith you! Humanity must let itself be touched and pervaded by the Spirit given
\nto it by the risen Christ<\/b>. It is the Spirit who heals the wounds of the heart,
\npulls down the barriers that separate us from God and divide us from one
\nanother, and at the same time, restores the joy of the Father’s love and of
\nfraternal unity.<\/span><\/div>\n


\nIt is important then that we accept the whole message that comes to us from the word of God on this Second Sunday of Easter, which from now on throughout the Church will be called “Divine Mercy Sunday”. In the various readings, the liturgy seems to indicate the path of mercy which, while re-establishing the relationship of each person with God, also creates new relations of fraternal solidarity among human beings<\/b>. Christ has taught us that “man not only receives and experiences the mercy of God, but is also called “to practice mercy’ towards others:  “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy’ (Mt 5: 7)” (Dives et misericordia, n. 14). He also showed us the many paths of mercy, which not only forgives sins but reaches out to all human needs<\/u>. Jesus bent over<\/b><\/u> every kind of human poverty, material and spiritual.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Divine Mercy is a not a mere theological datum. It is another way of calling God, of meeting and loving God and living in relation to others. But is Divine Mercy? Blessed  John Paul II spoke of Divine Mercy in his canonization homily for Sister Maria Faustina Kowalska. She became a modern mirror for God’s … Continue reading Divine Mercy: Jesus bending over our humanity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,47],"tags":[2376,1713,1701,2748],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}