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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

Thought for the Day # 12 – Friday March 27, 2020

“God Wants to Grant Us His Mercy”

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

God is bountiful in mercy.

How does one receive the mercy of God when we have no access to a priest
who will minister the sacrament of reconciliation?

The Church itself has foreseen a way when it is not possible for us to ask for
the help of a priest. We simply confess our sins to the Lord, to acknowledge
our faults before the Lord, with sincere remorse, with profound desire not to
repeat it, and with the firm resolve to go, when it becomes possible, to see the
priest for the sacrament of reconciliation.

So “God, I ask your forgiveness for my thoughts, for my deeds, for my words,
that may possibly have been evil, I profoundly ask for your forgiveness. I
bitterly and sincerely regret the wrong I may have done.”
And God loves a contrite heart, God blesses the contrite heart.

Therefore, I assure you, I reassure you, with this disposition of the heart and
this resolve, God grants you his forgiveness here and now. He does not wait
for the sacrament of reconciliation. God’s forgiveness is granted here and now
because God wants our happiness, our salvation, our peace, He wants to fill us
with his mercy.

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Collection of texts by the Most Rev. Christian Lépine 23