![]() The feast of Divine Mercy celebrates the merciful love and forgiveness Christ wants to bestow on us “for the sake of his sorrowful Passion.” It feels providential to be writing this with Divine Mercy Sunday just celebrated (by the time most people receive this issue), and Pentecost Sunday approaching in mid-May. I see clearly each day that I cannot achieve that by my own willpower. I need to be transformed, made into a new man. Send your Holy Spirit into my heart.” I do that to remind myself that it isn’t only God’s merciful forgiveness that I need. I pray, “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. What a beautiful prayer for the Year of Mercy! I find myself praying it often each day.īut I have added an additional line. ![]() (5:17) In the East, it is often prayed on knotted cords, much as we would pray the rosary. Paul urged in his First Letter to the Thessalonians. 2667) It is seen as a beautiful way to “pray without ceasing,” as St. Though it has Eastern roots (both Orthodox and Eastern Catholic), the Jesus prayer has also been embraced in the West and it is praised in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. ![]() It is called the “Jesus prayer,” or the “prayer of the heart,” and it echoes the humble prayer of the tax collector in Luke 18:13, contrasted with the proud boasts of the Pharisee in Jesus’ parable. ![]() This short prayer comes from the Eastern Church of the fourth century.
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