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Time of Mercy Blog

 

Easter Monday - God still creates

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When something fails me, someone does not meet my expectations, and the next attempt ends in failure, I run to a "safe" place of mediocrity saying "enough". In this way, I miss the chance to finally change something in my life. I expect, but I would rather not put my hand on it. I take the attitude: "first I will observe and then make a decision whether it is worth it". How many beautiful moments of my life do I lose due to such attitudes of escape, half-heartedness and calculation. I want to, but I do not think I really want to.

I am like the disciples who "runaway" to Emmaus. These two are mega discouraged because all the hopes they had placed years ago for a bright future had failed for them. And when the future came, turned out to be quite different than what they had expected. So what?

They now feel deceived and exposed to the wind. After all, He supposed to change the world: remove pain and suffering, effectively heal the sick, satiate the hungry, end wars once and for all, expel the Roman occupier, destroyed Pharisees and, given his disciples a place closest to him for eternity. And here everything turned out completely different. Jesus was captured, crucified and died ... Nothing has changed. We just lost time. So, let us get over it.

How many sad escapes into the safe sphere of contemplating my own drama are there in my life? And I kill myself with complaints, regrets, looking for guilty parties and a pointless attempt to change the course of the past. What does my Master, Jesus, say? First of all, he is with me as he accompanied the disciples on the way to Emmaus. He also helps me to understand my past - accept it and use it. He finally "de-dramatizes" my sad fate by giving me a broader view of what is happening.

And I find all this in the Eucharist - in the breaking of the Word and the Bread. There His disciples met Him. And I can meet Him there.

“And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning [within us] while he spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us?”


Until Tomorrow

fr. george

Novena to The Divine Mercy - Fourth Day:

Today bring to Me the PAGANS AND THOSE WHO DO NOT YET KNOW ME. I was thinking also of them during My bitter Passion, and their future zeal comforted My Heart. Immerse them in the ocean of My mercy.

Most compassionate Jesus, You are the Light of the whole world. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who do not believe in God and of those who as yet do not know You. Let the rays of Your grace enlighten them that they, too, together with us, may extol Your wonderful mercy; and do not let them escape from the abode which is Your Most Compassionate Heart.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls of those who do not believe in You, and of those who as yet do not know You, but who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Draw them to the light of the Gospel. These souls do not know what great happiness it is to love You. Grant that they, too, may extol the generosity of Your mercy for endless ages. Amen.

Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet

George Bobowski