If We Must Wallow

Requiescat in Pace

EVERYTHING

In His Mercy

Surpassing Misery

An Open Door

All The Kindly Waterfalls

Let all the waterfalls of Your
 kindly Fatherhood
run down upon me.
Let all the fountains of the great abyss
of Your infinite mercy burst open over my head.
Let the depths of Your charity engulf me....
Let me be lost in the flood of Your living love,
as a drop of the sea is lost in
its immensity... 
as a burning spark dies in the
rushing current of the river... 

St. Gertrude 



Painting: August Lucas

Like a Grain of Sand

    'Our faults are like a grain of sand beside the great mountain of the mercies of the good God.'

St. John Vianney

      Painting: John George Brown, in US public domain due to age

Mercy in this Restless Time

'Who can say that he is free from sin and does not need God’s mercy? 
As people of this restless time of ours, wavering 
between the emptiness of self-exaltation 
and the humiliation of despair, 
we have a greater need than ever for a regenerating experience of mercy.' 

St. John Paul II

As we celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday, may SAINTS John Paul II and John XXIII pray for us all!

Painting:  Antonín Chittussi, Paris as Viewed from Montmartre

On the Morning of Confession

'When our Lord is with us, 
light is poured abroad
on life's path, 
light is shed around
in the house of our soul,
His own living Tabernacle.... 

'On the morning of Confession, 
show Him round the house; 
show Him what needs repair;
show Him where thieves 
break in and steal; 
be busy telling Him all, 
and beg of Him the grace 
of perfect contrition.'

(from Fervorinos From Galilee's Hills, compiled by a Religious, Pelligrini, Australia, 1936, p. 223)



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No Limit to Your Mercy

'Depth of Mercy, O Triune Holiness, yet one God,

Whose bosom is filled with love for all, 

as a good Father You scorn no one.  

O Love of God, Living Fountain, 

pour Yourself out upon us, Your unworthy creatures.  

'May our misery not hold back the torrents of Your love,

for indeed, there is no limit to Your mercy.' 

St. Faustina, Diary # 1307

Painting: Frederic Edwin Church, Rainy Season in the Tropics

But Also For Other Souls

'I am always supporting you, so lean on Me as you struggle, fearing nothing. Take the vessel of trust and draw from the fountain of life - for yourself,
but also for other souls,
especially such as are distrustful of My goodness.'

Jesus to St. Faustina,
Diary of a Soul #1488

















Painting:  William Adolphe Bouguereau, Pendant l'Orage 1872

Do You Fear the Mercy of God?

"The Magdalene, most of all, is the model I like to follow.  

That boldness of hers, which would be so amazing 

if it were not the boldness of a lover, won the heart of Jesus." 

(St. Therese of Lisieux)

"My child, do you fear the mercy of God?

 My holiness does not prevent Me from being merciful....

 You can come to Me at any moment, at any time;

I want to speak to you, and desire to grant you grace."

(Jesus to St. Faustina) 

Painting:  Frederick Sandys, Maria Magdalena 

Find Me, O Lord

Find me, O Lord!  I am lost except for You.

Trust...

Trust the past
to God's mercy;
the present
to God's love;
and the future
to God's providence.

          St. Augustine

My Food in Exile

"My heart, longing for God, feels the whole misery of exile.  I keep going forward bravely - though my feet become wounded - to my homeland and, on the way, I nourish myself on the will of God.  It is my food.  Help me, happy inhabitants of the heavenly homeland, so that your sister may not falter on the way.  Although the desert is fearful, I walk with lifted head and eyes fixed on the sun, that is to say, on the merciful heart of Jesus."  (St. Faustina, Diary #886)

Caspar David Friedrich painting public domain

Melted Away....

"I count up Your graces and Your mercies, because You have melted my sins away as if they were ice.  

"And whatever evils I have not done, that too I reckon as Your grace.  For what might I have done when I loved vice for its own sake?  

"I acknowledge that all things have been forgiven me, both the evils I did of my own free will, and those which, by Your guidance, I did not actually do."  (St. Augustine)




(painting in US public domain)