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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 15, 2012
1 min

Mercy Running (an army of Magdalenes)

— Mercy Running (an army of Magdalenes) 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 23 I found my destiny at the moment when my soul lost itself in You, the only object of my love. (57) From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; from the one entrusted with much, much more will be asked. (Lk. 12: 48) Jesus, You pour out abundant Mercies upon those in need, surpassing the depth of sin with the power of Your love. We trust in You, the Mercy that makes all th

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Merciful Discipline 3: Broken, We Endure Shame

Andrew Comiskey

Mar 14, 2012
4 min

Merciful Discipline 3: Broken, We Endure Shame

Merciful Discipline 3: Broken, We Endure Shame In the Church, God has put Himself into hands that betray Him again and again. – Pope Benedict Do not hold against us the sins of the fathers; may Your mercy come quickly to meet us, for we are in desperate need. Help us, O God our Savior, for the glory of Your Name; deliver us, and forgive us our sins for Your Name’s sake. Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” (PS 79:8-10a) We repent on behalf of the abuse-broken chu

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 14, 2012
2 min

Mercy Rising (on trembling legs…)

— Mercy Rising (on trembling legs…) 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 22 I know that the grain of wheat must be ground between millstones in order to become food. In the same way, I must be crushed in order to be useful to the Church and to souls. (641) The Church is founded on forgiveness. Peter is a personal embodiment of this truth, for he is permitted to be the bearer of the keys, after having stumbled, confessed, and received the grace of pardon. Behind the t

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 13, 2012
1 min

Mercy’s Sacrifice

— Mercy’s Sacrifice 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 21 How sad I am that souls do not recognize Love. They treat Me as a dead object. (1385) Do you despise the Church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? … A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread or drinks of the cup. (1 Corinthians 11:22, 28) Jesus, thank You for Your Sacrifice of Mercy. We need it now more than ever! In Your Mercy, unite our divided hearts and make us whole in one-Spi

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 12, 2012
1 min

Mercy’s Meal

— Mercy’s Meal 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 20 Jesus, may Your pure and healthy blood circulate in my ailing organism, and may Your pure and healthy body transform my weak body, and may a healthy, vigorous life throb within me… (1089) Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare. (Isaiah 55:2) Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My bloo

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 11, 2012
2 min

The Gaze from the Cross, Part 4

— The Gaze from the Cross, Part 4 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 19 When I was dying on the cross, I was not thinking about Myself but about sinners, and I prayed for them to the Father. (324) As God has made us sharers in His Mercy, and even more than that, dispensers of that Mercy, we should therefore have great love for each soul… (539) If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. This is to My Father’s glor

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 9, 2012
2 min

The Gaze from the Cross, Part 2

— The Gaze from the Cross, Part 2 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 17 Remember My Passion; if you don’t believe My Words, at least believe My wounds! (379) Trusting in Mercy is the key to a clear and free heart, a heart that can attend to others’ need for Mercy. As we learn to meditate upon His Passion, allowing His wounds to assume ours, we lay the ground for becoming genuinely merciful. St. Faustina received this word from Jesus: ‘By mediating upon My Passion,

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 8, 2012
2 min

The Gaze from the Cross, Part 1

— The Gaze from the Cross, Part 1 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 16 I want to live beneath Your divine gaze, for You alone are enough for me. When I am with You, Jesus, I fear nothing, for nothing can do me harm. (306) O Blood and Water that gushes forth from the heart of the Savior as a Fount of Mercy for us, I trust in You! (309) If your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. (Matthew 6:22) My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only He will release m

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 7, 2012
1 min

Everything I Have is Yours

— Everything I Have is Yours 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 15 At the moment of Your death on the cross, You opened an inexhaustible spring of Mercy for us, giving us Your dearest possession, the Blood and Water from Your heart. Such is the omnipotence of Your Mercy. From it, all grace flows to us. (1747) For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him Crucified,…so that your faith may not rest on men’s wisdom but on God’s powe

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 6, 2012
1 min

Abundance for a Lonely Son

— Abundance for a Lonely Son 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 14 Jesus, Friend of a lonely heart, You are my haven, You are my peace. You are my salvation, You are my sovereignty in moments of struggle and amidst an ocean of doubt…You are everything to a lonely soul. (247) Who is weak and I do not feel weak? Who is led into sin and I do not inwardly burn? St. Paul (2 Corinthians 11:29) Father, we too are weak. At times we are subject to desires that deride us, a

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 5, 2012
1 min

Mercy Restores Our Inheritance

— Mercy Restores Our Inheritance 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 13 My Heart overflows with Mercy for souls, especially for poor sinners. If only they could understand that I am the best of Fathers to them, and that it is for them that the Blood and Water flowed from My Heart as from a fount overflowing with Mercy. (367) While the son was still a long way off, the father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around hi

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 4, 2012
1 min

Mercy, Not Sacrifice

— Mercy, Not Sacrifice 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 12 I am more generous towards sinners than to the just. It was for their sake that I came down from heaven; it was for their sake that My blood was spilled. Let them not fear to approach Me; they are most in need of My Mercy. (1275) It is not the healthy who need a doctor but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice’. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 3, 2012
1 min

Mercy and Gratitude

— Mercy and Gratitude 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 11 O Jesus, the more I have known You, the more ardently I have desired You. (591) Thank You for Mercy, O God. Grant us courage to bypass the Pharisee (in our own hearts and in our churches) in order to worship You with gratitude. You have made Your Mercy known to us. We worship You, O God. Rescue those locked up in fear of the Pharisee. Make Your kind and all-powerful vision for their good evident to them. U

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 2, 2012
2 min

Mercy’s Rule

— Mercy’s Rule 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 10 When the battle becomes too much for me, I throw myself like a child into the arms of the Heavenly Father and trust I will not perish…I do not lose heart. I trust God’s grace, which abounds in the worst misery. (606) How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you w

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 1, 2012
1 min

Jesus: A Fountain of Living Water

Join us today at 3pm (CST) as we intercede for loved ones in need of God’s mercy. — 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 9 O inexhaustible spring of Divine Mercy, pour Yourself out upon us! Your goodness knows no limits. Confirm , O Lord, the power of Your mercy over the abyss of our misery, for You have no limits to Your mercies. (819) If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. Whoever believes in Me, streams of living water will flow from within him. (John

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Andrew Comiskey

Feb 29, 2012
1 min

Mercy and the Truth of Sin

— Mercy and the Truth of Sin 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 8 The knowledge of my own misery allows me to know the immensity of Your mercy. (56) Do not withhold Your mercy from me, O Lord; may Your love and Your truth always protect me. (Psalm 40:10-11) Father, we ask for great clarity and discernment regarding the nature of Mercy. Please rouse us where we have adopted worldly ideas of her. We pray for the conviction of sin in our own hearts and in those we lov

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Merciful Discipline 1: Broken, We Pray for the Abused

Andrew Comiskey

Feb 28, 2012
4 min

Merciful Discipline 1: Broken, We Pray for the Abused

— Merciful Discipline 1: Broken, We Pray for the Abused No wound runs deeper in the Church today than the sexual abuse of children by her priests. Over the last 30 years, the wound has become apparent as brave, broken souls throughout the world have dared to confess the perversion deposited in them by priests. We the Church bear this wound. We are the broken: bewildered, angry, more tempted to strike the Church than to heal her. And yet we are ‘her’, the wounded bride, as nee

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Andrew Comiskey

Feb 28, 2012
1 min

False Mercy

— False Mercy 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 7 The great sins of the world are superficial wounds on My Heart, but the sins of a chosen soul pierce My Heart through and through… (1702) Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness… (Isaiah 5:20-21) Father, grant us clarity as to what pleases You and what does not. Thank you for the clear witness of Scripture and the Church. Help us to discern ‘blind guides’; mo

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Andrew Comiskey

Feb 27, 2012
1 min

Mercy and Judgment

— Mercy and Judgment 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 6 ‘Do not fear anything, I am with you. These matters are in My hands and I will bring them to fruition according to My mercy, for nothing can oppose My will.’ (573) ‘Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.’ (Joel 3: 14) Father, we cry out for loved ones in ‘the valley of decision.’ Would you act in Mercy on their behalf? Would You send Your

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Andrew Comiskey

Feb 26, 2012
1 min

Prisoners of Hope

— Prisoners of Hope 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 5 ‘In spite of everything, Jesus, I trust You in the face of every sentiment which sets itself against hope.’ (14) ‘In the time of my favor, I will answer you; on the day of salvation, I will help you…I will say to the captives, ‘Come out!’ and to those in darkness, ‘Be free!’ (Isaiah 49:8-9) Who is like You, Father of Mercy? Even our sin is not stronger than Your Mercy. You woo us with a Love sweeter and stro

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