Demonic attack is REAL, ppl, don’t under-estimate
their deadly wiles and snares. Unless the good
angels and the prayers of the faithful are available
to lend us aid, we shall all likewise perish as
the children of wrath, O Lord.
Amen.
Lord Jesus Christ,
You have taught us to be merciful
like the heavenly Father,
and have told us that whoever sees
you sees Him.
Show us your face and we will be saved.
Your loving gaze freed Zacchaeus
and Matthew from being enslaved by money;
the adulteress and Magdalene from seeking
happiness only in created things;
made Peter weep after his betrayal,
and assured Paradise to the repentant thief.
Let us hear, as if addressed to each one of us,
the words that you spoke to the Samaritan woman:
“If you knew the gift of God!”
You are the visible face of the invisible Father,
of the God who manifests his power above all
by forgiveness and mercy:
let the Church be your visible face in the world,
its Lord risen and glorified.
You willed that your ministers would
also be clothed in weakness
in order that they may feel compassion
for those in ignorance and error:
** let everyone who approaches them feel
sought after, loved, and forgiven by God**.
Send your Spirit and consecrate every
one of us with its anointing,
so that the Jubilee of Mercy may be a year
of grace from the Lord,
and your Church, with renewed enthus-
iasm, may bring good news to the poor,
proclaim liberty to captives and the opp-
ressed, and restore sight to the blind.
We ask this through the intercession of
Mary, Mother of Mercy,
you who live and reign with the Father
and the Holy Spirit for ever and ever.
Amen