North American Congress on Mercy

Faces of Mercy

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Photo by: Felix Carroll

Sister Lucille, CFR, Bronx, N.Y.
"Each individual soul is important to God. We sisters are very blessed to be loving one soul at a time back to Christ.

"In Section 309 of St. Faustina's Diary, she writes:

Before heaven and earth, before all the choirs of Angels, before the Most Holy Virgin Mary, before all the Powers of heaven, I declare to the One Triune God that today, in union with Jesus Christ, Redeemer of souls, I make a voluntary offering of myself for the conversion of sinners, especially for those souls who have lost hope in God's mercy. This offering consists in my accepting, with total subjection to God's will, all the sufferings, fears and terrors with which sinners are filled. In return, I give them all the consolations which my soul receives from my communion with God. In a word, I offer everything for them: Holy Masses, Holy Communions, penances, mortifications, prayers. I do not fear the blows, blows of divine justice, because I am united with Jesus. O my God, in this way I want to make amends to You for the souls that do not trust in Your goodness. I hope against all hope in the ocean of Your mercy. My Lord and my God, my portion-my portion forever, I do not base this act of oblation on my own strength, but on the strength that flows from the merits of Jesus Christ. I will daily repeat this act of self-oblation by pronouncing the following prayer which You yourself have taught me, Jesus:

O Blood and Water which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a Fount of Mercy for us, I trust in You!

"That passage is very important to us."

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