The Confraternity of Our Lady of Mercy will be holding a retreat [“Rachel’s Vineyard Aftercare Retreat,”] introducing the call to holiness and the spirituality of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Mercy on the weekend of October 21-23, 2011. This retreat will be held at the Casa Maria Convent and Retreat House of the Sisters […]
Our Personal Mission from God
“God has created me to do him some definite service; he has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission – I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. Somehow I am necessary for his purposes, as necessary […]
Persevere in Prayer
“God sees everything; we know this in a very abstract way, but we must discover it on the practical level. Prayer opens us up to this discovery by revealing to us the marvelous transforming power of poverty, which passes from mere lack to dependence on the person we love. The fact that God knows our […]
Finding True Peace
“Devote yourself earnestly to meditating on the passion and death of our Lord, adoring his precious blood and his sacred wounds. By this shall one endeavor to arouse his love, and herein shall his inner life be made manifest to him; for as a great heap of coals or wood blazes up into a great […]
The Value of Frequent Holy Communion
“As the Body of Jesus Christ is a food, and a food intended to increase our spiritual strength, we have only to see in what spiritual strength consists to be able to judge of the good effect of our Communions. It is evident that all our spiritual strength ought to be employed against ourselves, against […]
St. Pio on Adoration
“A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.” – St. Padre Pio
Retreats in Canada a great success!
On May 12th, I flew from New York (where I had given a series of classes for the Dominican Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery in the Bronx) to Kelowna, British Columbia. Kelowna is a beautiful city located on the banks of Okanagan Lake in the southern part of the province. I was met at the […]
Closeness to God in Adoration
“You dwell, my Lord Jesus, in the Holy Eucharist. You are here, within a few feet of me, in the tabernacle… How close you are, my God, my Savior, my Jesus… Saint Mary Magdalene was no nearer to you when she sat at your feet in Bethany than I am at the foot of the […]
Bishop Ricken joins our Advisory Board!
Bishop David Ricken, of the Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin, has joined the Bishop’s Advisory Board of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Mercy. Bishop Ricken has been a friend of the Fathers of Mercy since he gave our annual retreat in 2004. He has just recently given the Church’s approval to the first and […]
Prayer request: A Work of Mercy
The author of the message below, Kathleen, is an alumna of Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California. This request for prayers was passed on to us by one of our members, Eileen Craig. I would highly recommend that members of our Confraternity join in this prayer intention, because this lady shows all of us […]