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Share your faith – Join our Online Discussion! Build up others with your thoughts on our Sunday meditation. Three questions will be offered for reflection and discussion each week. Please pray through the questions and share your insights or what the Lord spoke to you in the comments area provided. Your words will inspire others in The Word Among Us community and encourage us all.
Consider an elderly gentleman facing surgery, terrified of what might happen if he doesn’t survive the procedure. He has practiced his faith his whole life, and yet he still can’t believe that Jesus would welcome him home. Wouldn’t you want to encourage this man with the good news of God’s mercy? What about those who have distanced themselves from God and indulged in sin and rebellion? Could there be mercy for them? Should they dare to trust after living such a self-destructive life? Absolutely!
Today we celebrate Jesus’ loving kindness. On this day, one week after Easter, we are reminded why Jesus rose from the dead: to shower the world with divine mercy. Now, unless we reject him outright, he will never deny us.
As Peter walked through the streets of Jerusalem, many people brought their sick…
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pride is an obstacle that interferes with the ability to trust God’s mercy and compassion; sometimes we feel that we have to qualify for His mercy, or,conversely, we despair of qualifying; but these thoughts and emotions are rooted in pride; we would be so much more at peace if we just admit, once and for all, that we can never earn God’s mercy; the focus is not even on us; God’s mercy and love are infinite and endless; all we have to do to be saved is accept them ( by repenting of our sins and living his love law to the best of our ability); God’s mercy in rooted in his Nature, in his plan for the world, and to glorify His name; so let’s get on board with His plan, our own misconceptions and pride are the only obstacles to a fresh start in life
I agree 100% with the last comment—pride is a huge obstacle for most people, and often they (like me) may not even realize it is pride, because pride may be masking itself as insecurity or fear. We may be afraid to trust God’s mercy, afraid to step out in faith and abandon ourselves to God’s mercy, because we’re afraid that God may ask of us something we’re afraid to give, or that we will try to accomplish something and fail.
But Jesus told St. Faustina that He does not expect us to always succeed; it is enough that we are trying. Sometimes in the lifetimes of many great Saints it has seemed to the world that they were magnificent failures at nearly all they attempted, and only after their deaths did we, as a Church, realize the value of what they were trying to do. So be not prideful and step out in faith and trust, like a child running to a loving parent!
Yes agree with the above. There is too the reality of intellelctual pride which ,regrettably, is sweeping our culture and almost defines Western Europe. That pride of mind known as postmodernism which denies any reality other than the finite, while denying truth and morality except as relative and cuturally/biologically emergent human realities; denying God, a saving Christ, etc…a veritable fallen deck of cards is this type of pride’s legacy. It is ruinous.