Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion Quotes

“MERCY IS THE FORM LOVE TAKES when it encounters misery. It is first of all a form of love because it wants what is good for the one who is loved.”
― Magnificat, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“O my Jesus, transform me in yourself, for you can do all things. – Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“Do not look forward in fear to the changes in life; rather, look to them with full hope that as they          arise, God, whose very own you are, will lead you safely through all things; and when you cannot stand it, God will carry you in his arms.”
― Magnificat, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“Only for today, I will make a plan for myself: I may not follow it to the letter, but I will make it. And I will be on guard against two evils: hastiness and indecision.”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“Only for today, I will do at least one thing I do not like doing; and if my feelings are hurt, I will make sure that no one notices.”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“Only for today, I will devote ten minutes to some good reading, for good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“It is precisely because sin exists in the world… that God, who is love, cannot reveal himself otherwise than as mercy. This”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“Help me, that my feet may be merciful so that I may hurry to assist my neighbor, overcoming my own fatigue and weariness. My true rest is in the service of my neighbor.”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“The mercy God shows to us must be lived with others. In life we are faced with difficult situations and people we do not like or understand. We find ourselves judging others, often harshly, while excusing our indifference and impatience. We insist we have no choice or don’t know what to do. There is always one answer: be guided by mercy. – Monsignor Gregory E. S. Malovetz”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“We love our neighbor as something belonging to God and loved by God, as a friend of God, or if he is not his friend as yet, then as someone invited to the friendship of God, who awaits him with eagerness. If the love of neighbor is understood in this manner, it can be extended to all, even to our enemies who, though they have hostile dispositions towards us, do not cease to be an object of God’s love and his effort to win their love in return.”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“What do we suppose the damned find harder to bear—the justice of God, or the sheer childlike innocence of his mercy? Old and hardened sinners can talk about debts and payment and vengeance. But before the clear brow of the child they must retreat in shame. Be advised, fellow sinners. Our God is younger than we.”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“Damien, who, “crowned with glories and horrors, toiled and rotted in that pigsty of his under the cliffs of Kalawao,” the “plain, uncouth peasant” who “steps into the battle, under the eyes of God, and succors the afflicted, and consoles the dying, and is himself afflicted in his turn, and dies upon the field of honor.”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“When I think that happiness is nothing but a delusion—Lord Jesus, you ask me: “Do you love me?”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“As a result, a woman who is determined to be consistent with her principles often feels deeply alone, alone in her love which she cannot betray, and to which she must remain faithful.”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“Mercy does not allow those who wrong us to get away with injustice. Mercy repairs what is broken, restores hope, and molds us into holy souls who emulate more closely the heart of Jesus Christ. Mercy is everything.”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“TO BEAR WRONGS PATIENTLY may well be the most difficult spiritual work of mercy, not because of the wrongs but because of the patience. Physical injury and personal insult may be tolerated as a strategy in order to get revenge eventually, but patience requires a conviction that there is something better than revenge.”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“She went to Kildare, where she became the abbess of one of Ireland’s first convents. She wrote a reputedly strict rule and continued to witness to God’s abundant love. Hers were the miracles of the multiplication of butter, beer, and bacon—always for the succor of the poor. She restored cows and sheep and blessed the marriage bed. Hers was the vision of heaven as endless feast, according to the ancient poem: “I should like a lake of ale for the King of Kings/ I should like the household of heaven to be there drinking it for eternity…/ I should like cheerfulness to be in their drinking/ I should like Jesus here also.”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“Only the Holy Spirit…can tell the sweetness, loveliness, and strength with which he has enriched the soul. The beauty…of earth fades into insignificance before the unspeakable beauty of a soul in a state of grace.”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“The very mercy of the law cries out Most audible, even from his proper tongue, “An Angelo for Claudio, death for death!” Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure; Like doth quit like, and Measure still for Measure.”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“IF THERE WAS HOPE FOR SAUL, there is hope for all. That is a large measure of the message Paul sees in his conversion. Saints like to call themselves the greatest of all sinners. Paul’s claim on the title is unusually strong, however. He was, in fact, once a blasphemer and a persecutor and an arrogant man (1 Tm 1:13). Yet Paul also explains that he received mercy because he acted ignorantly in unbelief. This is quite remarkable. Paul’s unbelief was in a real way his gravest sin, the foundation of all the others. Paul studied the Scriptures and awaited the Messiah. As a Pharisee he even believed in the resurrection of the dead. Yet, somehow his heart was closed to Christ the Lord. The ignorance of unbelief, however, is a darkness God alone can illumine. And the Lord spread his merciful light when he blinded Paul with his radiant and living presence. Jesus’ mercy to Paul, in other words, came as the ultimate personal encounter. Paul’s knowledge of the Christ was no longer a matter of mere human learning—in the end more ignorance than knowledge. Mercy came as the voice and vision of the one risen from the dead. – Father Anthony Giambrone,”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“The very sick person often suffers the depressing worry of being a burden to others. To encourage them, to shine hope on a possible recovery, to show our enjoyment of being in their company—these are true acts of mercy. The sick need to know from our own love for them that they have lost nothing of their essential attractiveness.”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“Mercy consists not simply in working things through but in begging for the grace to embrace our lives and to be grateful for everything.”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“In his eternal decrees God heard the cry of mankind. Even though he permitted the sin which was to drive mankind into such a desperate situation, at the same time he determined a plan of rescue which was to enrich mankind even more than before the fall and to give a perfect satisfaction to the requirements of divine justice. – Servant of God Father Hyacinth Woroniecki, O.P.”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“My hour has not yet come.” But the hour is imminent. We fill our jars to the brim and pray that the feast doesn’t have to end.”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“MERCY IS THE FORM LOVE TAKES when it encounters misery.”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“Pope Francis tells us that this special Holy Year is a time “to bear the weaknesses and struggles of our brothers and sisters” (MV 10), an occasion to “open our eyes and see the misery of the world, the wounds of our brothers and sisters” (MV 15).”
― Peter John Cameron, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“Pope Francis tells us that this special Holy Year is a time “to bear the weaknesses and struggles of our brothers and sisters” (MV 10), an occasion to “open our eyes and see the misery of the world, the wounds of our brothers and sisters” (MV 15).”
― Magnificat, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion

“Or imagine a young person lacking judgment, experience, and knowledge. If you love this young person, you don’t love her poverty in these matters. You love her and what she could be with the proper instruction and guidance, and therefore you want to free her from her present limitations. This is the gift of mercy, and it is rooted in profound respect.”
― Magnificat, Magnificat Year of Mercy Companion