JUBILEE YEAR OF MERCY...SECOND HALF

Jubilee Year of Mercy…Second Half

The Jubilee Year of Mercy is nearly half over and it is here we should look at how we progressed in our knowledge and understanding of mercy and how our actions are lining up.  When this Jubilee Year of Mercy was proclaimed by Pope Francis hopefully we looked at the word of Our Lord to make the journey in mercy one of joy thus moving our spiritual lives to a new level of knowledge, understanding as the reward of blessings and grace filled our souls.  

Mercy being the core gift from Our Lord where all other graces flow finally ending with the free gift of salvation.  In all that we are, all we do and all that separates us from our Lord on a daily basis His mercy waits for us to repent and turn away from our sins.  His mercy is personal not collective in the sense our heart is what He looks at and moves from there.  Even if we believe the same as others or are connected to the good and evil of others our heart is what He looks at divorced from all connections and where judgement is meted.  Mercy is given when the broken and heart of prayer, pain and stress cries to our Lord “Merciful Lord have Mercy on Me.”  It in this mercy He went to the cross for us.  His mercy of love pouring out of precious blood droplets that beaded up on this face while some ran down His beard.  Mercy that gushed forth from His side.  Mercy that live in every excruciating pain where at one short point He cried to Father God to let this cup pass, however as if in the same breath accepted this torture for He was mercy and the world needs His mercy.

His mercy knows no hatred, prejudices, anger and the like for His mercy is the core essence of His crucifixion.  He wants to give His mercy and not have to close the gates of salvation to anyone.  The prayer given to St. Faustina in part is “Have Mercy on Us (Lord) and the WHOLE World.”  This being in part His benchmark of what is mercy and what is expected from us the inheritors of His mercy; how can we justify withholding the mercy given to us from anyone else.  Nothing given to us by our Lord is par and parcel exclusively ours to horde and whole fast to ourselves.  What we receive in giving back what we receive from our Lord far exceeds the fears we hold on to for He is with us always and we fall under His protection for His mercy warrants thus.  

©Linda Mary Liotino ME A SERVANT OF CHRIST MISSION 2016

© Photograph of Sacred Heart from Risen Christ Church Negombo, Sri Lanka by Franco Joseph