":Hail, Mother of Mercy and of Love, O Maria." These words from a popular hymn honoring Mary remind us that Mary shares a mercy role with her Son to whom devotion as the author of mercy has grown with the spread of the Divine Mercy Chaplet devotion and the image of the Jesus of Mercy. The story goes in the Revelations of Saint Bridget, that Jesus urged his mother to ask some favor of him. She, like Queen Esther, asked for mercy for all people; Jesus assured her that whoever asked of mercy through her, would obtain it. Pope Saint Leo wrote, "Mary is so ready to show mercy that she merits to be called not only merciful, but mercy itself." How much do we need mercy? Does the world need mercy? Mother of Mercy grant us the gift of mercy which we so desperately need and and fervently seek.
Bro. Rene
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