Pope Francis has just announced an extraordinary jubilee, a Holy Year of Mercy, to highlight the Catholic Church’s “mission to be a witness of mercy,” which will be celebrated from Dec. 8, 2015, until Nov. 20, 2016.
St. Francis de Sales, our Founder, also spoke of mercy.
“Your miseries and infirmities ought not to astonish you. God has seen many and many a one as wretched as you, and His mercy never turns away the unhappy. On the contrary, by means of their wretchedness, He seeks to do them good, making their abjection the foundation of the throne of His glory. As Job’s patience was enthroned on a dung-hill, so God’s mercy is raised upon the wretchedness of man; take away man’s misery, and what becomes of God’s mercy?”
Again in one of his letters he says: “Why? What would this good and all-merciful God do with His mercy; this God, whom we ought so worthily to honor for His goodness? What, I say, would He do with it if He did not share it with us, miserable as we are? If our wants and imperfections did not serve as a stage for the display of His graces and favors, what use would He make of this holy and infinite perfection?”
Source:
http://www.malankaraworld.com/library/eBooks/FDeSales/ebook_DeSales-Gods-mercy.htm
Recently, on our Living Jesus Chat Room, we spoke together about God’s Mercy:
http://visitationspirit.org/2015/03/chatting-about-gods-mercy/
May all these resources help prepare you for the Jubilee Year of Mercy!