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Andrew Comiskey

Apr 1, 2012
2 min

Perseverance and Mercy

— Perseverance and Mercy 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 40 O great day, in which divine love will be confirmed in me. On that day, for the first time, I shall sing before heaven and earth the song of the Lord’s fathomless Mercy. This is my work and my mission, which the Lord has destined for me from the beginning of the world. (825) Come close to My wounds and draw from the Fountain of Life…Drink copiously from this Fountain of Life and you will not weary on y

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 31, 2012
1 min

Merciful Trust

— Merciful Trust 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 39 ‘Trusting in Your Mercy, I walk through life like a little child, Offering You each day this heart Burning with love for Your greater glory.’ (2) We entrust ourselves to the Mercy of God. ‘Although sin is an abyss of wickedness and ingratitude, the price paid for us can never be equaled. Therefore let every soul trust in the Passion of the Lord and place its hope in His Mercy. (72) Jesus, full of joy in the Ho

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 29, 2012
1 min

Mercy for a Broken Church

— Mercy for the Broken Church 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 37 Observing myself and those who are close to me, I have come to understand how great an influence I have on other souls, not by heroic deeds, but by small actions like the movement of a hand, a look, and many other things too numerous to mention, which effect and reflect in the souls of others. (1475) I find pleasure, not in large buildings and magnificent structures, but in a pure and humble heart

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 26, 2012
2 min

Mercy for the Church

— Mercy for the Church 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 34 What a joy it is to be a faithful child of the Church! O how much I love Holy Church and all those who live in it! I look upon them as living members of Christ, who is their Head. I burn with love with those You love; I suffer with those who suffer. I am consumed with sorrow with those who are cold and ungrateful. (511) Things that cause people to sin are bound to come, but woe to those through whom they

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 23, 2012
2 min

Urgency and Mercy

— Urgency and Mercy 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 31 I have eternity for punishing sinners, and so I am prolonging the time of Mercy for the sake of sinners. But woe to them who do not recognize this time of My visitation! (1160) A strange power has been pushing me into action, not giving me a moment’s peace. A strange ardor has been lit in my heart, urging me to action and I cannot stop it. (569) What business is it of mine to judge those outside of the Chur

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 16, 2012
1 min

Deep Wells of Mercy

— Deep Wells of Mercy 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 24 He brought me into such close intimacy with Himself that my heart was espoused to His heart in a loving union; I could feel the faintest stir of His heart and He of mine. The fire of my created love was joined to the ardor of His eternal love. (1056) As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for You, O God. Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls, all Your waves and breakers have w

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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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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 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 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 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 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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The Lord is Merciful: 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012

Andrew Comiskey

Feb 22, 2012
1 min

The Lord is Merciful: 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012

— The Lord is Merciful 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 1 ‘Bring your ear close to My heart, forget everything else, and meditate upon My wondrous mercy.’ (229) Open our hearts, O God, to the depth of Your Merciful heart toward us. May it overflow to all we meet. May it alter how we see You and all of life. ‘Welcome sweetest Mercy, who pour Yourself out for souls. Welcome, Infinite Goodness, who pour out everywhere torrents of Your graces. Welcome, O veiled Brigh

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Andrew Comiskey

Feb 20, 2012
2 min

Rousing a Captive Culture

‘How can I not?’ he reasoned, as he listed the divorces, affairs, co-habitation and children born out-of-wedlock in his family. We are inundated daily with the breakdown of holy boundaries in heterosexual relating. A new poll reveals that 61% of US singles have sex on their first date; not surprisingly, for the first time in US history, more than half of births to American women under 30 now occur outside of marriage. The devolving of heterosexual morality in our culture is t

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Andrew Comiskey

Feb 15, 2012
2 min

The New Normal?

He made his case boldly–I am gay, I am good, I am normal. Rosie O’Donnell said it incredulously in a recent interview: ‘Can you believe in the 21st century we are still questioning whether homosexuality is normal?’ To be ‘normal’ is precisely what drives ‘gay marriage’. It is not because gays want monogamous bliss, or even particular rights; they want to cure the incurable—to demonstrate to themselves and to the culture around them that they are ‘normal’, just regular folks.

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