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The Three Great Acts of Mercy.
The Story begins with Creation of the Universe—Creatio
Ex Nihilo (creation from nothing) and the transfigured glory of Adam and Eve in
the Garden of Eden. In the Garden we see Adam and Eve in harmony with all of
Creation This first act ends with the Fall into Original Sin the expulsion from
Paradise and the disorder and chaos which results from this fall.
In the next chapter we are taken forwards in time to the Second Great Act of
Mercy - the Incarnation and Redemption. Beginning in the humble cave of
Bethlehem and the Birth of Christ and concluding with the Sacrifice of Calvary
this chapter takes us through the sacrifice offered by Jesus.
The Sacrifice of Calvary is of course the Perfect Sacrifice which is the
summation and purpose of the life of Christ and is perpetuated and remembered in
the Mass we celebrate today.
Our Sanctification and
Divinisation is the reason for Christ’s Sacrifice and is exemplified through
time by the lives and testimony of the Saints.
It is depicted here through the
revelations in our own day of Divine Mercy given to the humble Saint Faustina
Kowalska of Poland. This is the Third Great Act of Mercy and is offered freely
to all by the Father through the most Tender and Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Sanctification leads us to the
ultimate Triumph and Glory that awaits us as our final destiny which is
prefigured in the person of the Mother of God, through her Immaculate
conception, her glorious Assumption and Coronation in Heaven. As she did in the
life of St. Pio, the victim soul priest who bore the wounds of Christ for fifty
years, or our late Holy Father John Paul II, our Mother helps us persevere and
guides us through the sometimes rough seas and perilous pilgrimage of life as
the Star of the Sea, to the safe port of heaven.
Audiences at conferences across
the USA, from Hawai'i and Southern California Coast to the East Coast and around the
U.K. and Australia have been captivated and moved as they experienced this
dramatic and stirring presentation.
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