Choosing Divine Mercy

Have we really looked at the image of Divine Mercy, looked at it honestly? Yes, we’ve seen it a hundred times and it strikes us on the immediate level — that of God’s great act of pouring and offering himself to us as water and blood, soul and divinity so we may choose and be washed clean.That is no small matter. But there is more.

This divine gift must be received, freely. We must choose. And that’s the honesty part. As George Bernanos puts it, “before we can hope in what does not deceive, we must first lose all hope in that which does deceive.”

May we all have a week of Divine Mercies by choosing that which does not deceive.