April 15, 2007

Some Thoughts For Divine Mercy Sunday

The Cross of Mercy Little Portion Retreat Center Eureka Springs AR

I wrote a long post on the meaning of Divine Mercy Sunday last year and will repost it HERE. I think we non Catholic Christians can learn a lot about our Lord and how he wants to show us his mercy over and over but looking at the spiritual journey and writings of St Faustina

Some Scriptures pertaining to God's Mercy

Micah 7:18-20

Who is a God like You,
Pardoning iniquity
And passing over the transgression
of the remnant of His heritage?


He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He delights in mercy.
He will again have compassion on us,
And will subdue our iniquities.


You will cast all our sins
Into the depths of the sea.
You will give truth to Jacob
And mercy to Abraham,
Which You have sworn to our fathers
From days of old.

Ephesians 2:1- 10


And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.